Most Viewed Year 1909 - 27

Newsfilm about the world’s first aviation meeting

Japanese horror movie from 1909.

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...

French horror short from 1909.

The first film vision of another seminal Japanese folk legend. Momotarô, the boy who was conceived when his elderly parents ate a magic peach...

Early japanese horror film from 1909. From the 1759 kabuki play, in which Kiyo-hime transforms into a giant serpent.

Short film about a deep-sea fishing steamer

A man falls in love with a life size doll which is actually his wife in disguise.

This film footage of the Ziegler North Pole expedition was reissued in Britain by Charles Urban in 1909 when all things Polar were of almost...

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

A sympathetic story of a moral dilemma set at the turn of the 19th century. A Frenchman joins the Chouannerie – a Royalist uprising in...

Using their Edison camera, the Corricks filmed Sports at Sea during their return trip to Australia on the White Star Line’s S.S. Runic...

A scout trails burglars, locks them in, and fetches police.

A boy finds a kaleidoscope on the street and uses it as an opportunity to charge bystanders to look through it.

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 lion run is discovered, and, unmindful of promises which must be fulfilled, they prepare to secure a fine specimen. A fake documentary that it had...

Silent film.

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

Short documentary