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:
15 April 1904
A closeup of the steam whistle blowing at the "Westinghouse works" complex of factories in Pennsylvania, probably at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
28 August 1904
1904 journalistic actuality.
14 May 1904
Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup
09 May 1904
A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces
15 January 1904
The severe cold of the winter of 1903-04 allowed the rapids of Niagara Falls to freeze over, allowing the brave tourists to enter the chasm and cross to the other side over the formed ice bridge.
01 January 1904
Newsreel footage of an execution by beheading of Li-Tang, the Chinches chief of a band of Manchurian bandits.
01 June 1904
Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.
16 January 1904
Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hips.
30 September 1904
Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.
30 April 1904
Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.
01 January 1904
This is a single camera position film of muscle-flexing exercises by a professional physical culturist.
31 December 1904
Austrian animal trainer Ernst Perzina puts his educated rhesus monkeys through their paces.
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