1904 Movies

A poor woman abandons her younger baby on the steps of a rich couple's house. She returns home to find herself evicted and her older child missing. Sh...

A woman is hanging out wash on a roof. Below the edge of the roof, a man peers up at her while painting the eaves. The director, in order to add zest...

It is obvious that the cameraman placed his equipment close to the edge of a seashore. A large number of children followed by bathers can be seen runn...

Several shots of the events after the disaster of steamboat PS General Slocum.

Many people can be seen walking around the yard adjacent to a railway station. A train with several passenger cars pulls up to the station. The camera...

As the title implies, the film shows women delegates parading at the st. Louis World's Fair in 1904. They are employees of the national cash register...

Four rows of preadolescent children, both boys and girls, are standing in front of a blackboard on which the words "Kansas City, Missouri" can be seen...

Schoolchildren doing calisthenics.

To film this event, the camera was placed inside the rail, on the track surface itself. As the film begins, in the foreground a gate opens and a horse...

Dreamland was a theme park at Coney Island, Brooklyn that opened in 1904. One of its major attractions was the stunt spectacular "Fighting the Flames,...

Another example of early filmmakers capturing on film anything that happened to be moving in America in 1904.

A camera in the Plaza of St. Louis at the World's Fair slowly pans counter clockwise in nearly a full circle: we see the crowd and various buildings,...

From three camera positions, the Democratic presidential candidate, Judge Parker, bids farewell on the wharf at Esopus to Mayor McClellan and other im...

The single camera position was from the point of view of the judge of the course. The films shows a boat race between small, motor-driven speed boats,...

The Great Toronto Fire was a devastating blaze that destroyed 122 buildings and put 5,000 people out of work. The fire started in a clothing warehouse...

Showing thousands of young people enjoying their favorite Winter Sport.

Baby Parade at Asbury Park, N.J., in 1904.

A self-explanatory title for a highly simple film.

A group of cowboys herding cattle.

A historical re-enactment of a naval battle in Chemulpo Bay off the coast of Korea during the Russo-Japanese war. Shows a Japanese ship damaging one R...