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And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
Seven years after the death of their first child, a couple has grown apart and decides to…
1909
At the Altar
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie…
Aus dem Leben der Kate auf Deutsch-Neuguinea
Documentary about life in colonized Africa.
1909
Ben's Kid
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and…
Benedict Arnold
Arnold, reproved by General Washington, decides, with the bitter hatred of a small nature,…
1909
Bluebeard
Fatima and Sister Anne have seemed alive in their minds, from the moment Fatima, in her mo…
Boxing Fever
Fairground boxing booth where visitors try to knock out the champion and win five pounds,…
Briton and Boer
The story opens just before the Boer War at the farm house of Jobe De Larey, just outside…
Bruto
Directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro.
Building and Operating a British Railway
Documentary about building a engine.
Calino bureaucrate
A Calino comedy short.
Choosing the Wallpaper
A woman is shown various wallpaper samples, in a short displaying the Kinemacolour process
1909
Comata, the Sioux
This story of the Black Hills consistently tells of the unrequited love of a Sioux brave f…
Comment se fait le fromage de Hollande
Documentary about making cheese in the Netherlands.
1909
Confidence
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One…
1909
Cretinetti the Wrestler
André Deed is tired of being beat up, so a strong man has no trouble selling him one of th…
D'où viennent les faux cheveux
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The…
Dick Is Not Dead
Boireau writes to one of his friends to tell him that he is not dead but in love and that…
Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Cabinet
Single shot of a man behind an x-ray screen on which his x-ray is clearly visible and movi…
Drive for a Life
Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Ha…
Drunkard's Child
A caring stranger tries to help the child of a chronic drunkard.
Dwarf Detective
At a house party, people are dancing.... but one of the guests slips away from his accompl…
1909
Edgar Allan Poe
As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.
Eloping with Auntie
A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dr…
Enrico III
Early Shakespeare's adaptation.
1909
Eradicating Aunty
A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to fi…
Faust
Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain…
First International Competition for Airplanes in Brescia
A document of the First International Competition for Airplanes in Brescia
1909
Fools of Fate
Fanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful h…
1909
Getting Even
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't s…
Goban Tadanobu
Period piece debuting Matsunosuke Onoe
Good Evening Flowers!
A woman says good evening through moving flowers in stop motion animation.
1909
Hansel and Gretel
One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.
Héliogabale
1909
Her First Biscuits
A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delive…
Her Generous Way
A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for…
Hiawatha
Drama Short
1909
His Duty
It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman prese…
1909
His Last Game
Bill Going is the star pitcher for his local Choctaw baseball team. Gamblers from Jimtown…
1909
His Lost Love
Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James i…
His Reformation
Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves…
His Ward's Love
Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the…
His Wife's Mother
Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the even…
1909
His Wife's Visitor
Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes e…
1909
Hunting Big Game in Africa
Promoted as authentic safari footage, this early Selig production stages a lion hunt in Ca…
I Did It
A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter rea…
In Little Italy
Marie has two suitors. She accepts Victor and rejects Tony, who stabs Victor in a fit of j…
1909
In Old Kentucky
Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured a…
In the Sultan's Power
Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old Fre…
In the Watches of the Night
An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his fam…
In the Window Recess
An escaped convict takes refuge in the home of a police officer out on duty. He seizes the…
Jealousy and the Man
House painter Jim Brooks thinks his wife is cheating on him with his best friend John West…
Jephtah's Daughter: A Biblical Tragedy
Early short film dramatizing the biblical story of Jephthah (Judges 11).
1909
Jones and His New Neighbors
Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong…
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jone…
Judgment
Jim Flanders, a wealthy ranchman, has a beautiful daughter, Alice, who is loved by Tom Rip…
1909
King Lear
An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagrap…
L'évasion de Mr de La Valette
Monsieur de La Valette, arrested on the return of the Bourbons and sentenced to death as a…
1909
Lady Helen's Escapade
A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in lov…
Le bouquet de violettes
A story of a woman and her two suitors.