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Movies: Popular Movies of 1904

Movies in chronological context: 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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The Impossible Voyage(1904)

20min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 79 votes)

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.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Mermaid(1904)

4min | Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 24 votes)

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Untamable Whiskers(1904)

3min | Fantasy, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

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 of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist. Then, standing in the centre, he causes the living features of his sketch to appear in the place of his own, which is utterly devoid of whiskers. The change is made so mysteriously that the eye cannot notice it until one sees quite another person in the place of the first. Again another sketch is shown on the board, this one being that of a miser; then an English cockney; a comic character; a French policeman, and last of all, the grinning visage of Mephistopheles. It is almost impossible to give this film a more definite description; suffice it to say that it is something entirely new in motion pictures and is sure to please. (Méliès Catalog)

Directed by Georges Méliès

Ball Passing Through a Soap Bubble(1904)

1min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.

Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer(1904)

3min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 12 votes)

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 dog becomes a woman, then a masked man appears. The conjurer sits them each on a box a few feet apart: suddenly the woman and man have changed places. The disappearing and the transfers continue in front of a simple backdrop.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Firefall(1904)

2min
2.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A magic show.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Wonderful Living Fan(1904)

3min | Fantasy
2.5/5 (with 11 votes)

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 then has a large box brought in. It is opened, revealing a very large folding fan. When the fan is spread out, the designs on it begin to change and move. And this is far from the last of the surprises that the conjurer has in store.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Terrible Turkish Executioner(1904)

2min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish men and women preceding some Turkish policemen, who drag along four prisoners in chains. The policemen shut up the four prisoners in the pillory. Their four heads stick up through the huge plank, which is provided with four openings. One of the policemen urges the executioner to decapitate the prisoners. He accordingly seizes a mighty sabre and cuts off by a single stroke the four heads, which roll upon the ground.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Cook in Trouble(1904)

4min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

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

Directed by Georges Méliès

An Interesting Story(1904)

4min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

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

Directed by James Williamson

The Wandering Jew(1904)

3min | Fantasy, Drama, History
2.3/5 (with 8 votes)

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

Directed by Georges Méliès

A Miracle Under the Inquisition(1904)

2min | Fantasy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

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

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès
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Westinghouse Works(1904)

1h 10min | Documentary
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been treated to footage of factory panoramas, women winding armatures and turbines being assembled. These industrial films were produced for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.

The Mistletoe Bough(1904)

9min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

Tit for Tat(1904)

1min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

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 blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by levitating above Melies and spewing water on him.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room(1904)

3min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

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 on rails; cranes lift machinery; and men perform their various duties, including hammering objects. (Library of Congress)

A Moonlight Serenade(1904)

3min | Fantasy, Romance / Love, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

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 offers him something better.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Dog Factory(1904)

4min | Comedy
2.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into dogs.

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

The Devilish Plank(1904)

1min
2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Melies and his crew perform magic tricks.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Coronation of King Peter I of Serbia(1904)

42min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

Directed by Frank Mottershaw

The Imperceptible Transmutations(1904)

2min
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

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.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Buy Your Own Cherries(1904)

4min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms penniless and without provisions into his ill-furnished house where his wife and two children, ill-clad and ill-fed, cower. Is there any hope for him and for his family? If he does realize how low he's sunk, what help is there to lift him up? Will the family ever know the taste of cherries?

Directed by Robert W. Paul

Faust and Marguerite(1904)

4min
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

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 torture that awaits.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Barcelona Park at Twilight(1904)

2min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

Directed by Segundo de Chomón

Maniac Chase(1904)

8min | Comedy, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

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

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

The Ex-Convict(1904)

9min
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

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

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

The Clockmaker's Dream(1904)

2min | Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping clock-maker some new kinds of clocks that they know how to make.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Fugitive Apparitions(1904)

2min | Fantasy
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Christmas Angel(1904)

10min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

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 the snow….

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Burglary at Night(1904)

3min | Comedy, Crime
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.

Directed by Gaston Velle
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