The best movies 1904

Boy swimmers upset a bench and throw lovers into a stream.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes...

Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.

The only known film footage of Marcel Proust (identified by Canadian professor Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan around 100 years after the shooting of the...

A fairly venturesome piece of filmmaking for the era: Based on the Jules Verne story, the film utilizes a dozen cuts, irised lenses, panning shots...

A prefect is converted to Christianity and dies in the arena with his lover.

Two young girls in Ukrainian costume perform a dance near a palm tree in a garden.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The 280 different views comprising this series depict sights along a route over the most important thoroughfares of London, not merely showing street...

An abridged story of the triumphs and trials of Christopher Columbus, told in eight scenes.

1. Panoramic View from the Acropolis. A fine view of modern Athens. 2. Mar's Hill. Probable site of St. Paul preaching to the Athenians. 3. A View of...

A damp and murky day greets the annual Whitsuntide Catholic procession in Edwardian Manchester.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Attending trotting matches - in which horses in harness race at specific gaits - was a popular Edwardian pastime.

The 1904–1905 Pathé short Un coup d’œil par étage (literally “A Glance on Each Floor”) is an inventive...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1. Mooring Cattle on Barges. Preparatory to shipping them to Constantinople. 2. Taking Cattle off to the Steamer. Towing the laden barges through the...

Silent black and white film from Argentina made in 1904.

The heir of a rich family puts up a notice, where he says he is looking for a wife. As a result, he will soon find himself fleeing from a dozen women.

Spanish lost film directed by Ángel García Cardona.

View of the exit of the "La Sin Bombo" cigarette and tobacco factory, one of the oldest in Argentina. Employers, workers and workers. At the end a...