A large bucket is lowered into a pit by male workers using machinery. Molten material from a furnace is poured into the bucket using a slide. The bucket, which has flames coming from inside, is lifted up from the pit by a crane.
Watch the official Tapping a Furnace 1904 trailer in HD below.
United States 01 May 1904
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 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.
31 December 1904
Austrian animal trainer Ernst Perzina puts his educated rhesus monkeys through their paces.
14 August 1904
People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.
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.
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 October 1904
Two young girls in Ukrainian costume perform a dance near a palm tree in a garden.
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.
15 January 1904
Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.
Have you watched Tapping a Furnace yet? What did you think about it?
