1909 Movies

The first known film directed by Guido Seeber and the oldest surviving German animated film. A white piece of chalk first draws a clock on a screen. T...

M. Dona appears in this Alice Guy film where he performs the title song.

Made by the Gaumont Cinematograph Company of the Politeama Theatre.

Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

To help a woman whose purse has been snatched, two college boys stage a murder scene and trap the purse snatcher.

Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike his...

Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.

A Mexican spitfire romances an American soldier to make her Mexican lover jealous. When the lover is about to kill his rival, she convinces him it was...

In its projection, the passage of the wave runners was greatly applauded.

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

An adaptation not of Zola’s novel but of the play William Busnach and Octave Gastineau derived from it.

Directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro.

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the s...

French short silent comedy film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed to be lost. The film was a skit on the popular topic of hypnotism; it featured a...

After being chased off private property, Boy Scouts rescue the land-owner's kidnapped daughter.

Early Shakespeare's adaptation of Henry IV.

This film footage of the Ziegler North Pole expedition was reissued in Britain by Charles Urban in 1909 when all things Polar were of almost obsessive...

A drama of the mountains of Switzerland.