02 February 1904 Drama, Comedy 1 mins
A criminal woman is brought in by the police to be photographed (a mug-shot, presumably), capturing her making faces or grimacing. This simple, short film has been often cited as an early instance of a "tracking-in" or dolly-in in cinema, where the camera moves closer to the subject instead of remaining fixed.
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United States 02 February 1904
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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.
01 May 1904
Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904.
01 January 1904
Newsreel footage of an execution by beheading of Li-Tang, the Chinches chief of a band of Manchurian bandits.
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.
01 May 1904
A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
08 May 1904
Spanish lost film directed by Ángel García Cardona.
30 September 1904
Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.
22 May 1904
A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by on rails; cranes lift machinery; and men perform their various duties, including hammering objects.
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.
12 June 1904
In this actuality from Pathe, French cavalry officers jump their horses over a wall maybe one foot in height.
11 February 1904
A view of the opening ceromonies for New York's Williamsburg Bridge.
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