1904 Movies

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman...

A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...

A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other p...

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

A turbine is shown operating.

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.

A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a scarecrow...

Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been treat...

A magic show.

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

A large bucket full of molten material is poured into a large container, possibly a mold, by a group of men using machinery. Some other men stoke the...

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. On one side, men are shown pouring a hot liquid...

As a mother enters a store, she leaves her child outside in a carriage. Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage....

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

A man with some sense of intestinal urgency needs to find the right door at a railroad station. He chooses... the wrong door.

Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.

A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.