18 December 1904 Factual 4 mins
"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.
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United States 18 December 1904
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1904:
01 November 1904
Rows of women are shown at tables with winding machines. They wind using material from spools behind them, apparently putting the finished products on the table in front of them.
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.
19 May 1904
Old film taken in Lancashire, North England in May 1904.
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.
15 January 1904
Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.
01 January 1904
1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
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.
01 May 1904
On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tightening various parts with wrenches.
02 February 1904
A criminal woman is brought in by the police to be photographed (a mug-shot, presumably), capturing her making faces or grimacing.
09 May 1904
A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces
01 July 1904
A small child in the surf at the seashore. The child is evidently frightened at the rushing waves and stands terrified until a larger wave than usual comes along, whereupon the child turns and runs toward the shore.
23 December 1904
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.
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