1909 Movies

Five tinted views of the city and port of Algiers in the early 20th century.

Images from the entrance by boat and through the exhibits of the Konstindustriutställningen, which began in June.

Short animated film

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

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

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

Perhaps a depiction of the mythic yanagi-baba, or "willow witch", a spirit which emerges when a willow tree is 1,000 years, Featuring the Matsudaira R...

Recreates a horrific lust-murder sequence from kabuki theatre, starring members of the Kasen Makamura all-girl troupe.

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

Sugawara no Michizane was a poet/politician of the Heian period, who fell from grace and died in exile. It was said that his vengeful ghost was the ca...

French horror short from 1909.

The journey of the oyster from seabed to dinner plate.

One of 3 movies released 1909 with the same name.

One of 3 movies released 1909 with the same name.

The first film vision of another seminal Japanese folk legend. Momotarô, the boy who was conceived when his elderly parents ate a magic peach and were...

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