Despite his younger sister's remonstrances, a precocious schoolboy wants to smoke a cigarette he stole from his father. But he is soon punished for his audacity by a stomach cramp that intensifies until it culminates in terrible nausea and its inevitable consequence.
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Alice Guy-Blaché Director
France 19 July 1904
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1904:
01 May 1904
Numerous women stand at several rows of tables where they appear to be wrapping tape around some devices, presumably coils.
01 May 1904
A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side.
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.
31 December 1904
Austrian animal trainer Ernst Perzina puts his educated rhesus monkeys through their paces.
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.
25 July 1904
Inside a boxing ring are two horses. Attendants put white bag-like objects on their forefeet. At a signal from the ringmaster, the two horses stand on their hind legs and start boxing.
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.
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.
08 May 1904
Spanish lost film directed by Ángel García Cardona.
25 April 1904
Two small boys with policemen's hats and nightsticks are struggling with another small boy. The object of their struggle seems to be to arrest him.
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