1909 Movies

Life and trade at the Cattle Market on May 5, 1909, in Trier.

The Youghal Clock Tower is a light-hearted and playful exploration of the possibilities of animation in its infancy. In this short, the well-known landmark is depicted dancing into frame as the clock gate comes to life, spinning and dancing through the main st...

Song from Operetta "Die Fledermaus"

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

A true story of ante-Rebellion days.

Jim Flanders, a wealthy ranchman, has a beautiful daughter, Alice, who is loved by Tom Ripley, the foreman of the ranch. The match is objected to by Flanders, who desires his daughter to wed a more cultured and refined man.

After tasting wine from a salesman, Mr. Belmonte receives a letter claiming that the wine was poisoned and demanding money for an antidote. His terrified family summons a doctor, who exposes the supposed poisoning as an extortion scheme.

Pathé film from 1909

The celebration of famous Swedish explorer Sven Hedin in Furusund and Stockholm on January 16 and 17, 1919.

Madame Croquemitaine is an evil fairy who steals little children and transforms them into various vegetable plants: cabbages, asparagus, radishes, carrots... which grow and multiply in her vegetable garden. But little Geoffroy, whose brothers and sisters have...

We follow a wedding celebration in Auvergne, France.

People arrested by the gaze of the camera.

1909 French short depicting a very soft core porno scenario.

Jenny's father, a crank and a spiritualist, wishing to obtain a medium to aid him in his researches, inserts an advertisement in the paper to the effect that he desires to marry his daughter to a medium. Jenny thereupon runs away with her lover, Reggie, and th...

A gouty parent refuses the consent of his daughter to attend a masquerade ball, because her sweetheart was so unfortunate as to strike against his gouty foot. He orders daughter to her room, the sweetheart and companions out of the house; also orders the butle...

Various views of the Palm Tree’s Ally, the Corcovado funicular and the high tide in Rio de Janeiro before Christ the Redeemer came to dominate the scene.

A man in the park gets into a fight with a nurse. One leg is broken, and he goes to a surgery, where it is sawed off. At this point the movie develops into a chase comedy.