1909 Movies

“A husband and wife quarrel violently in front of their little girl. The husband is having an affair with an actress. The child follows her father to...

The first-released film to capture the ghostly legend of Sakura Sôgotô, the subject of numerous gruesome kabuki plays of spectral horror. Sôgorô (also...

Short film about a deep-sea fishing steamer

A man falls in love with a life size doll which is actually his wife in disguise.

A boy finds a kaleidoscope on the street and uses it as an opportunity to charge bystanders to look through it.

A short love story about jealousy and deceit; a soldier is in love with a girl, but when he gets injured, a jealous rival in love tells this girl that...

A man smokes a pipe and falling asleep causes a fire in a haystack. The owners chase him until they find him in the most cruel way.

Silent film

A man sneaks away from his wife to see a gypsy. The woman and gypsy duel to the death.

Documentary about building a engine.

Documentary about life in colonized Africa.

People arrested by the gaze of the camera.

A shipwrecked captain's dog swims ashore to fetch help.

German film released in 1909.

Short documentary film on the beauty contest of children held at Torino. Some sequences are used in Peter Delpeut's Lyrisch nitraat.

Documentary about the life on board Skoleskibet Georg Stage.

Duck archery is not the same as duck hunting. This is a Pordenone moment I will never forget – in actuality short Distraction et Sport à Batavia (1909...

Early japanese horror film from 1909. From the 1759 kabuki play, in which Kiyo-hime transforms into a giant serpent.