The single camera position was from the point of view of the judge of the course. The films shows a boat race between small, motor-driven speed boats, which were approximately twenty feet long with the inboard engine decked over. Many boats of various designs and spectators can be seen as if the locale were a yacht club basin or yacht mooring.
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United States 01 June 1904
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1904:
14 August 1904
People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.
29 September 1904
Footage of spectators at the Friedenau velodrome in Berlin, dating from 1904. Several spectators, including a woman, are standing in front of a wooden fence.
19 June 1904
Attending trotting matches - in which horses in harness race at specific gaits - was a popular Edwardian pastime.
19 May 1904
Old film taken in Lancashire, North England in May 1904.
25 April 1904
It's one on those thingies you see at amusement parks. You get into a small gondola, the machine starts whirling about, and centrifugal force lifts the gondolas up in the air.
14 May 1904
Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup
24 December 1904
A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.
26 January 1904
"Danced at the Casino de Paris by the Elks and their Indian troop."
01 June 1904
Arrival of the management and staff of the Koninklijk Nederlands Circus Oscar Carré at Amsterdam’s Weesperpoort Station.
01 January 1904
Distributed under the title of ‘Switzerland’ or ‘Playground of Europe’, the film consists of a collection of scenes filmed in the Alps by Frank Ormiston-Smith between 1903 and 1905.
16 March 1904
A Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage and superimposing/projecting images on top of one another.
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