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...

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 magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

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

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...

Melies second attempt at telling the story of Faust. This time out Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the...

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...

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

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...

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been...

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 magic show.

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

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

Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.

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

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

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

Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.