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The Mill

The Mill

1909 • 11 min • Belgium, France
Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away. When the miller finds out, he takes revenge.
The Airship Destroyer

The Airship Destroyer

1909 • 7 min • United Kingdom
An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
The Peachbasket Hat

The Peachbasket Hat

1909 • 10 min • United States of America
Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped-- until the baby is found under a hatbox.
The Children of Edward IV

The Children of Edward IV

1909 • 12 min
Ben's Kid

Ben's Kid

1909 • 11 min • United States of America
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
The Seventh Day

The Seventh Day

1909 • 8 min • United States of America
A neglectful woman wants custody of her children in her divorce. The judge rules that he will give her the children only if she can demonstrate her children's love for her within a week.
The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

1909 • 6 min • France
French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.
Le Voleur invisible

Le Voleur invisible

1909 • 7 min • France
A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author…
Napoleon, the Man of Destiny

Napoleon, the Man of Destiny

1909 • 13 min • United States of America
Part two of Blackton's "The Life of Napoleon". After Waterloo, Napoleon reminisces. His triumphs are seen in flashback. The film ends with the exiled Napoleon overlooking the beach of St. Helena.
His Lost Love

His Lost Love

1909 • 11 min • United States of America
Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary and leaves her newborn daughter motherless. Luke offers to raise the daughter. Years later James returns and tries to convince his daughter to leave Luke, the only father she's ever known, and come with him.
Cretinetti the Wrestler

Cretinetti the Wrestler

1909 • 8 min • Italy
André Deed is tired of being beat up, so a strong man has no trouble selling him one of the springs with handles at either end. When I was a kid, exercise mavens like Jack Lalanne would sell them, only made out of rubber. Anyway, Deed alternates exercising with this device and getting beat up on by almost everyone for the length of this one-reel comedy.
His Wife's Visitor

His Wife's Visitor

1909 • 7 min • United States of America
Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence that she has had a male caller while he was gone.
A Trap for Santa Claus

A Trap for Santa Claus

1909 • 16 min • United States of America
The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.
King Lear

King Lear

1909 • 13 min • United States of America
An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.
What's Your Hurry?

What's Your Hurry?

1909 • 4 min • United States of America
Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry sees Papa walk in with a shotgun he misunderstands and departs in terror. Harry continues to encounter Papa everywhere and runs away, baffling the old man. At last Papa hauls Harry back home for an explanation and a reunion with Mary.
The Haunted Lounge

The Haunted Lounge

1909 • 5 min • United States of America
A tramp in his haste to escape from the clutches of the law, rushes into a second-hand store and hides in a folding lounge. The lounge changes hands several times with each owner believing it is haunted. Finally it arrives in the home of a policeman. The policeman attempts to sleep, but the lounge starts to move, the policeman clinging to it. After riding about the room, the lounge starts for the door, goes down the stairs to the hallway out the back door into the yard. The policeman decides to burn the lounge, and after it is burned to ashes, behold the tramp standing in the center of the ash heap unharmed. The police arrest him for disturbing the peace.
Pranks

Pranks

1909 • 5 min • United States of America
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.
The Redman's View

The Redman's View

1909 • 14 min
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1909 • 11 min • United States of America
An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
To Save Her Soul

To Save Her Soul

1909 • 14 min • United States of America
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
The Little Darling

The Little Darling

1909 • 2 min • United States of America
This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position. Lillie Green, who keeps a boarding house, receives a letter from her old school chum, Polly Brown, whom sin hasn't seen in years, to the effect that as Lillie has never seen her little darling daughter, she will send her for a few days' visit, asking that someone meet the child at the 3:40 train. Lillie's boarders are a bunch of kind-hearted bachelors, who at once prepare to give the "Little Darling" the time of her life, buying a load of toys, etc., for her amusement, also procuring a baby carriage with which to meet her at the train. You may imagine their embarrassment when they find that Tootsie, instead of being a baby, proves to be a handsome young lady of seventeen, whose tastes run rather to garden gates, shady lanes and quiet nooks, than toys. (Moving Picture World)
The Death of the Duke of Enghien in 1804

The Death of the Duke of Enghien in 1804

1909 • 15 min • France
Directed by Albert Capellani.
The Master Detective

The Master Detective

1909 • 14 min • Denmark
The bank guard and the director hear mysterious sounds coming from the basement vault, where all the gold is kept, and call in Master detective Pat Corner. Studying a floor plan, Corner quickly discovers a tunnel leading directly into the vault from a nearby pub. The tunnel ends in an old barn where an blind beggar often sleeps. Is he the one rummaging around the vault? (stumfilm.dk)
Love's Stratagem

Love's Stratagem

1909 • 11 min • United States of America
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 by Captain Tom. Captain Tom, long in love with Nell proposes, and her father encourages her to accept, believing Jack has forgotten her.