1909 Movies

The manufacture of a new weapon in the pre-WWI naval arms race.

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 lan...

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...

Documentary about making cheese in the Netherlands.

Our story opens with a noted violinist practicing, his young wife sitting nearby, while their little daughter plays about on the floor, a truly happy...

A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.

An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and impris...

Shanghaied is a 1909 dramatic short.

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is al...

A romanced version of the apparitions of Mary at Lourdes in 1856.

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

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

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

The Black Sheep is a 1909 drama

A father has two sons, the older one serious and hard-working, the younger one spendthrift and pleasure-seeking. The latter rejects his father's autho...

Two hooligans attach lengths of sausage to a running motorcar, setting off a city-wide chase.

1909 French short depicting a very soft core porno scenario.

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

An amusing story of a forgotten dinner date, a pair of slightly cruel friends, and the unfortunate consequences for one well-meaning man forced to eat...

Gold fever, jealousy and a seductive woman put the friendship between two gold diggers to the test. In the Wild West, two men set out for the gold mi...