Seznam filmů 1904
Le Voyage à travers l'impossible
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
Casting a Guide Box
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 fire under the container. When finished pouring, the men lift the bucket …
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.
Personal
A man who has placed a personal advertisement for a prospective wife goes to wait at the meeting place that he designated. Soon a woman comes in response to the advertisement. Before the two have a chance to converse, several …
The Widow and the Only Man
Only women are at a resort, until one man arrives. He woos a pretty young widow, and wins her.
Photographing a Female Crook
Directed by Edwin S. Porter and/or Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
Testing a Rotary
A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.
Tapping a Furnace
A large bucket is lowered into a pit by male workers using machinery. Molten material from a furnace is poured into the bucket using a slide. The bucket, which has flames coming from inside, is lifted up from the pit …
Coil Winding Machines
Numerous women stand in rows at winding machines, taking material from large spools behind them. A male supervisor walks down the aisle, checking the work of the women.
Un miracle sous l’Inquisition
An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.
Les Transmutations imperceptibles
This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.
Balle traversant une bulle de savon
Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.
The Capture and Execution as Spies of Two Japanese Officers
Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.
Steam Whistle
A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
Children in the Surf at Coney Island
"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.
Parsifal
Klingsor seeks admission to the Holy Grail. Evil summons Kundry. Herzeloid appears with the child Parsifal. Crowning of Amfortas. Wounding of Amfortas. Carrying Amfortas to his bath. Kundry brings relief to Amfortas. Parsifal reproached for killing the Swan. Kundry succumbs …
Opening of the Drill Hall in Accrington by General Baden-Powell
It shows General Baden-Powell, hero of the Anglo-Boer war, and his family visiting Accrington.
Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene)
What appear to be molds pass some men by on conveyor belts. The men take them off the belt and dump the contents onto the ground. Other men pick up with tongs the parts that have been dumped onto the …
Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene)
Men working in teams carry buckets of molten material and pour the material into what appear to be molds lined up on the ground.
Coil Winding Section E
Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products on the table in front of them. Various supervisory staff, male and female, walk through the aisles, …
Girls Taking Time Checks
Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.
Girls Winding Armatures
Numerous women sit in rows at machines where they appear to be winding some type of wire and tooling it onto machines. Two young men push spools of this wire down the aisle. Supervisors, male and female, walk down the …
The Great Train Robbery
A remake of Edwin S. Porter's film of the same title.
Détresse et charité
A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father sends daughter out to beg. Rejected by other beggars, the girl collapses in …
A Day in the Hayfields
Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hips. Marshall continues with various feminine poses, reminiscent of classic Greek statuary, to accentuate her figure. Film cuts to Treloar …
Maniac Chase
A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.
Le Thaumaturge chinois
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from behind it. The …
A Fire in a Burlesque Theatre
This short, otherwise unremarkable feature is of some interest because of the way that it unabashedly caters to the tastes that it perceived in its audiences. Besides combining the elements of the risqué 'blue' movies of the era with the …
Le juif errant
A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.