1909 Movies

Two boys find a pistol their father has hidden. While they're playing with it, they line up a target, not realizing their sisters are on the other sid...

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

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...

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...

A film from Émile Cohl showing the various hats women used over the years.

Early special effects film in which a woman throws a basket of flowers in the air, upon which the flowers create different shapes and figures and even...

Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of...

A film about cupid shoes by Émile Cohl.

La Revolución de Mayo (in English: May Revolution) is an Argentine silent movie premiered in 1909. As the name denotes, it is focused on the events of...

The fates of two people align as a beggar tries to steal money from a sleeping newspaper boy. Instead of reporting the crook to the police, the benevo...

A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to his fantastic lair. After a nightmarish episode, the...

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...

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

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...

Mrs. Youngwife has become stage struck. She purchases a book, "How to Become a Great Actress," and soon imagines she is ready for her debut. The husba...

Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film

Harry's rich old bachelor uncle thinks Harry is still single. When Uncle announces a visit, Harry's wife has to play the part of the housekeeper so Un...

Ugo Falena version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

1909 French short depicting a very soft core porno scenario.