The best movies 1904

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

1904 journalistic actuality.

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.

The Lillywhites take on the Wolves at Deepdale, watched by a large crowd and the club mascot.

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

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

A singing "baby" backed by a chorus line of fellow "babies".

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

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks...

Klingsor seeks admission to the Holy Grail. Evil summons Kundry. Herzeloid appears with the child Parsifal. Crowning of Amfortas. Wounding of...

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...

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

Silent black and white film from Argentina made in 1904.

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

Through an invisible keyhole, the viewer peeps at the leisure activities of a carefree group of noblewomen who enjoy the water, as well as a hearty...

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

A remake of Edwin S. Porter's film of the same title.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

This series of tableaux-style vignettes taken from the much-storied life of France’s Louis XIV includes “Musketeers Fight”,...

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

A comedic short about taking unpleasant medicine.

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

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.

Silent black and white film from Argentina made in 1904.

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...