1909 Movies

A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own eleg...

A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He retur...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Picture shows how much good may be found "In the Heart of a Race Tout."

This film recounts an episode in Eugène François Vidocq's life and the events that led him to escape from the Brest penal colony disguised in a unifor...

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the st...

“The Biograph people tell an excellent story in this, and tell it so strongly that it grips very close. The scene where the husband gets into the room...

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El Paso. Th...

The picture shows various kinds of birds in their natural environments, and in their natural colors, and at such close range that the very eyes of the...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A neighbor visits her friend, taking with her her child, a little girl about the same age as the friend's little girl. Both children being full of mis...

Three men go out on the ocean in a row boat. There, they see dancing fairies. Then manage to catch one and take her aboard the boat--taking her back t...

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

A count has decided to marry. When his former lovers hear of this, they decide to kidnap him from the office of the Justice of Peace and bring him to...

Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his hous...

Just before bedtime, Christian overhears a conversation between his grandmother and shopkeeper Blache. While Blache stubbornly insists that wealth is...

The American Civil War is the setting for this film which portrays the efforts of a girl, with the aid of her boyfriend, to deliver a message to the C...