Most Viewed Year 1904 - 4

We see three pretty actresses in a surprisingly spacious and clean dressing room, backstage at a theatre. Their costumes indicate that the...

A documentary recording of the Šibenik port from 1904, by Frank S. Mottershaw. For a long time considered to be the oldest extant Croatian...

"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.

Two black men are stealing chickens and get chased by the white farmers.

A sexton reforms after dreaming of abduction by goblins.

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

A magic show.

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

Early commercial film for Daniel Dalsgaards Kaffeforretning.

A comedy of faux Frenchmen who engage in a duel over some slight disagreement and who manage to shoot everyone but each other. Filmed by James...

Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.

Documentary clips from Palestine.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

The stages that a caterpillar goes through, from larvae to chrysalis, to become a butterfly.

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 man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

Documentary about a hunting party.

A drunkard has taken off his overcoat and wishes to put in on again, but as he is not able to succeed in it. He asks aid of two bystanders, who hold...

View of the Grand Canal in Venice from a boat believed to have been made in either 1901 or 1904 and as part of the series "Through Italy with the...

A man does magic tricks