Most Viewed Year 1909

Drama Short

Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain for the secret of eternal youth, decides, after a night's...

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.

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

The fates of two people align as a beggar tries to steal money from a sleeping newspaper boy. Instead of reporting the crook to the police, the...

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

Shanghaied is a 1909 dramatic short.

A young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off. His...

Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her...

A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she...

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.

A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.

A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

It might not take you long to cotton on to the trick of this film, but the results are still impressive. Though the various strings, wools and...

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...