Scarecrow Pump 1904

A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a scarecrow, so that he can play a practical joke on a drunken acquaintance when he passes by. The boy then hides and waits for him, but things do not turn out quite as he planned.

The Impossible Voyage 1904

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.

An Interesting Story 1904

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

The Coronation of King Peter I of Serbia 1904

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

Barcelona Park at Twilight 1904

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

Renard et lapins 1904

Salvation Army Parade in Indian Village - No.1 1904

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

Salvation Army Parade in Indian Village No.2 1904

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.

The Mermaid 1904

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A Day in the Hayfields 1904

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

Dog Factory 1904

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

Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer 1904

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.

A Fire in a Burlesque Theatre 1904

This short, otherwise unremarkable feature is of some interest because of the way that it unabashedly caters to the tastes that it perceived in its audiences. Besides combining the elements of the risqué 'blue' movies of the era with the popularity of movies about fires, it also attempted to use the combination to get extra mileage out of it. The movie's title summarises the setup, and most of the footage shows firefighters using ladders to rescue stage girls, clad in portions of their costumes, from an upper level. Although it all seems pretty tame by today's standards, it no doubt provided its male viewers with some brief moments of excitement as the various women hurried down the ladders with their costumes in disarray.

The Clockmaker's Dream 1904

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.

A Catastrophe in Hester Street 1904

Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro powder, causing an explosion that wrecks the block and blows off the vendor’s arm. A policeman shows up to the carnage and tries to replace the vendor’s arm with a severed leg.