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:
01 June 1904
Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.
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.
20 January 1904
Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.
01 January 1904
View of the Grand Canal in Venice from a boat believed to have been made in either 1901 or 1904 and as part of the series "Through Italy with the Bioscope" by George Albert Smith and Charles Urban.
01 May 1904
A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.
29 October 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.
15 January 1904
Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.
12 June 1904
In this actuality from Pathe, French cavalry officers jump their horses over a wall maybe one foot in height.
06 May 1904
Numerous women stand in rows at winding machines, taking material from large spools behind them. A male supervisor walks down the aisle, checking the work of the women.
21 June 1904
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.
14 August 1904
People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.
10 August 1904
A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.
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