1909 Movies

A French short comedy about a comic arrest.

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.

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.

Funeral of Lieutenant-Colonel José Pedro

Consequences result when a father breaks up his son's engagement.

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 rejuvenated for one final night of passionate sex. He proved to be a mighty hero, and an invincible defender...

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 caring stranger tries to help the child of a chronic drunkard.

An Indian cares for a dead white man's child, protecting him from a thieving fur trader.

Selkirk does its Border traditions proud with a cavalcade of riders and a herculean feat of banner waving.

The Flag Oath ceremony before the monument to Francisco Bolognesi. The events alluded to referred to the kidnapping of President Augusto B. Leguía by associates of Nicolás de Piérola, to force his resignation.

A silhouette film of acrobatic mice.

The incidents arising from the escape of a very lively specimen of the monkey tribe from its cage provide a series of scenes calculated to arouse many bursts of hearty laughter, for the animal makes very good use of his freedom, to the terror of every one. Up...

On 6 July the victory over the Schleswig-Holstein troupes during the 'Three Year War' (1848-1851) is celebrated in Fredericia.

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 Ryutaro kabuki troupe.

Showing a weird invention, called hypnotic mirror, in action. Placed before anyone the polished surface reflects the actual thoughts within their minds. Its uses in the court room, the home and the school house are cleverly shown. When the mechanism tells a wi...

An early Miyamoto Musashi silent short film

In the vaults of the Film Museum is a short film which, when it arrived in the 1950s, was given the title Bloemenvelden in Haarlem (The Flower Fields of Haarlem). The film shows the visit of two women and a child to the bulb fields. One woman buys a bouquet of...

Japanese horror movie from 1909.