Movies 1909 Page 7

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her. He is persistent...

In front of a portico, a music teacher teaches music theory to a group of young women, including Julienne Mathieu. A piano stands on the right side....

Adaptation of the eponymous play.

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

The film, produced by Filoteo Alberini and released in 1909 is a short drama about a young boy who is killed during the Spedizione dei Mille, a...

A documentary film on crocodile fishing

A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she...

Aristocrat Armand Duval meets the courtesan Marguerite Gauthier, after which he never stops thinking about her. The young man’s family is adamantly...

Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain for the secret of eternal youth, decides, after a night's...

An outlaw is in love with a Mexican painter's daughter.

An old and learned doctor discovers the secret of spontaneous generation and makes a microscopic germ which in its growth gives birth to the...

Tells the biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the book of Samuel

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

A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers,...

Stop-motion film from Émile Cohl has a clown walk out in front of a group of people and do various tricks including standing on his head, riding a...

A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions.

Fairground boxing booth where visitors try to knock out the champion and win five pounds, the first contestants is knocked out but the very eager...

Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of...

A short film in which every time a beggar sells his dog it returns to him.

An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys...

Promoted as authentic safari footage, this early Selig production stages a lion hunt in California rather than Africa. Using animals from Selig’s...

Drama of Indian life depicting Young Deer and Red Moon in a story about bravery.

A short film in which the members of the Motion Pictures Patents Company (which had been founded only a year earlier) congratulate Thomas Edison...

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

Dog must rescue girl.

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that...

Boys play pranks on people and are chased.

A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless--...

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns...

Three little girls fall into a sand pit and can't get out. One of them ties a note around her pet pigeon's neck and releases it. The pigeon flies...

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die....

This story of the Black Hills consistently tells of the unrequited love of a Sioux brave for his chief's daughter, and how he premonished the awful...

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

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...

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very...