1909 Movies

Howard Norris, a wealthy young man from the city makes the acquaintance of a lovely young daughter of a farmer. By promising marriage, he entices her...

A silent feature short film by Vasily Goncharov based on a folk song of the same name. It was filmed with actors from the Vvedensky Folk House troupe....

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears them.”

Two nosy neighbors who drill a hole through their wall to spy on the canoodling couple next door get more than they bargained for when the man discove...

Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.

An adaptation of Ivan Nikitin's poem 'Ukhar-kupets' for Pathé.

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

André Deed is tired of being beat up, so a strong man has no trouble selling him one of the springs with handles at either end. When I was a kid, exer...

Mrs. Leffingwell runs after the last of her departing party guests to return a forgotten muff. While she's out a burglar enters the apartment and open...

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

Sir Walter Scott adaptation, existing in fragmentary form in the Library of Congress paper print collections.

Houdini and his wife Bess are walking along the Seine in Paris, when he encounters a melee between a drunkard and the police. In the ensuing confusion...

Part one of Blackton’s “The Life of Napoleon". Napoleon meets Josephine, falls in love with her, marries and then divorces her.

In a hotel corridor, two pairs of shoes are left in front of two neighboring doors to be shined by the bellboy. The owners of the shoes don't know eac...

A group of foreign invaders occupy the house of a girl because it is in a strategic position but she sends a pigeon with a message to the territorials...

Based on a the horror novella of the same name. First Russian horror film.

On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set...

A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under th...