Most Viewed Year 1909 - 27

A sympathetic story of a moral dilemma set at the turn of the 19th century. A Frenchman joins the Chouannerie – a Royalist uprising in...

A grieving mother sends her two young children out to earn a living. No one seems willing to help them. The gendarmes are busy standing around a...

The scene is laid at the White House, the President's home. Looking down the broad avenue are seen two autos approaching it with great haste. One...

Early special effects film in which a woman throws a basket of flowers in the air, upon which the flowers create different shapes and figures and...

Silent film

When a Jewish man mistakenly puts a sovereign in a slot machine, he goes to extraordinary lengths to try to retrieve it.

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...

Jeannot sees a lithograph of a ballet dancer and decides he wants one of them and heads to the big city. Jeanette decides she can be one and likewise...

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...

Follows legendary classical composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, creating one of his most famous pieces called “Moonlight Sonata”.

Short documentary

At a house party, people are dancing.... but one of the guests slips away from his accomplice to go break open a locked cabinet and steal money....

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

Marzen photographs this multi-shot document of a Catholic procession.

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...

An old woman and her jealous dog.

The island of Sumatra is famous for its tobacco, as all lovers of the weed know. Its preparation, its growth and the various stages through which the...

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