1909 Movies

A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without tell...

Jack Windom experiences a sensation of awe at the reception of the Hindoo dagger from his old chum, Tom, who was traveling in India. Hanging the dagge...

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...

Illustrates a man's struggle to overcome an inherited love for drink. Although yet a young man, the enemy of his family had already sunk its claws fir...

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

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

Pathé film #2871. In a hotel, a weary traveler settles down to rest. But, hallucinations brought on by fatigue: monsters appear around the bed, which...

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 quarrel in a club room leads to a duel between two of the characters. Honor is satisfied by the usual "continental scratch" and the affair ends. Foo...

A formerly lost Lubin short film.

The timber trade calls on animal help.

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-- tha...

Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies play...

An item in the 24 Jul 1909 Moving Picture World called this film “a series of magic drawing executed by the fountain pen….[It] is interesting and amus...

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

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

A seducer named Dupont is ordered to marry a woman to "repair" the damage done to her, which is a little complicated for him because he is already mar...

A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own eleg...