Movies 1909 Page 26

A silhouette film of acrobatic mice.

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...

African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.

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...

According to Harper's Bazaar (8 March 1884), the Montreal Winter Carnival was founded as a means of promoting tourism to the country, aiming “to...

Documentary about the life on board Skoleskibet Georg Stage.

Sugawara no Michizane was a poet/politician of the Heian period, who fell from grace and died in exile. It was said that his vengeful ghost was the...

Man decides to crosss-dress to compete in a beauty pageant, for the 100 pound first prize.

A man smokes a pipe and falling asleep causes a fire in a haystack. The owners chase him until they find him in the most cruel way.

A journey across the Atlantic.

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...

Short documentary

A short film showing the industrial process of jute works in India.

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

A woman is shown various wallpaper samples, in a short displaying the Kinemacolour process

From the opening of the Bergen Railway in 1909 with King Haakon. We follow the train along the track up to Höfjellet with stops at various stations,...

People arrested by the gaze of the camera.

One of the earlier silent films screened for Norwegian audiences, set in the region of Sabina, Italy.

The earthquake that, on December 28, 1908, destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria attracted droves of camera operators. We are uncertain of the...

Celebrations for the consecration and inauguration of the Igreja Matriz Nossa Senhora da Conceição, in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on...