Most Viewed Year 1904

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

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by...

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

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 magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

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

This Gaston Velle movie from 1904 was a fairly venturesome piece of film-making for the era. First, its credits include Jules Verne: his second after...

Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.

The adventures of an inattentive man who can't look away from his book.

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

A magic show.

A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to support his wife and ailing daughter.