1909 Movies

In a hotel corridor, two pairs of shoes are left in front of two neighboring doors to be shined by the bellboy. The owners of the shoes don't know eac...

The events of the two factions, Guelph and Ghibelline , are intertwined with the life of Dante Alighieri

The winner of a footrace celebrates with his family. To illustrate his achievement, he takes a few strides in the dining room. Caught up in the excite...

Nell Connors is in love with Jack, a sailor, but is unaware that he was shipwrecked and is facing trials. Meanwhile, her father is saved from drowning...

A group of sworn Napoleon supporters decide to inform the emperor of the plans for his release from captivity on Elba. They send a messenger off to th...

Jim Watson loses his fiancée, Annie, to wealthy Easterner Walter Milton. Discovering Milton is already married and planning a fake wedding, Jim races...

An outlaw is in love with a Mexican painter's daughter.

This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very...

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

The only known moving-image footage of the author, filmed at his home, Stormfield, in Redding, Connecticut. The silent short shows Twain walking about...

Jean-Marie Hardouin is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is lame. He whiles away his days...

A drama of the mountains of Switzerland.

One of the oldest surviving films dramatizing elements of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoléon is played by Maximilien (Max) Charlier, but the dir...

"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical T...

Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers t...

A banker's daughter rejects a rich client who then withdraws money to cause a run on the bank.

FRAGMENT. Young Hansen is deeply in love with his boss’s daughter and regularly meets with her in secret. One day, the boss catches them and throws Ha...

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 Count of Féredia, ex-officer of the Spanish army and prisoner of war, gains the favors of a young woman whose jealous husband spies relentlessly o...