1909 Movies

A woman says good evening through moving flowers in stop motion animation.

An adaptation of Ivan Nikitin's poem 'Ukhar-kupets' for Pathé.

Song from Operetta "Die Fledermaus"

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A shipwrecked captain's dog swims ashore to fetch help.

Short slapstick comedy set in a hotel.

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...

Duck archery is not the same as duck hunting. This is a Pordenone moment I will never forget – in actuality short Distraction et Sport à Batavia (1909...

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

Short released in 1919.

Another version of the Momotarô legend.

Directed by Roberto Omegna.

German film released in 1909.

Directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Short documentary film on the beauty contest of children held at Torino. Some sequences are used in Peter Delpeut's Lyrisch nitraat.

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

The funeral of Princess Marie who died on December 4th, 1909.

Documentary about the life on board Skoleskibet Georg Stage.

The film begins with a shot of Wilbur Wright starting the engine; an unidentified assistant (quite likely his brother, Orville) is seen at the front o...