Category:1909, Top Films

1905 -- 1906 -- 1907 -- 1908

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>> Film Studies (1900s) <<

1910 -- 1911 -- 1912 -- 1913

• [A] Midsummer Night's Dream (Kent)
• The Lonely Villa (Griffith)

Notable Mention

• A Corner in Wheat (Griffith)

Additional Films

• {en} [The] Airship Destroyer (GBR 1909 Booth) <YouTube> -- An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

• {en} [The] Boy and the Convict (GBR 1909 Aylott) <YouTube> -- A boy helps to escape a convict after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again but released in the last moment after a dying convict confesses.

• {en} [The] Cricket on the Hearth (USA 1909 Griffith) <YouTube> -- After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

• {en} [The] Drunkard's Child (USA 1909 Lublin) <YouTube> -- A caring stranger adopts the child of a chronic drunkard.

• {it} [The] Garibaldi Boy / Il piccolo garibaldino (ITA 1909 Alberini) <YouTube> -- A teenager joins the Garibaldi army and dies in battle.

• {fr} [The] Invisible Thief / Le voleur invisible (FRA 1909 Zecca) <YouTube> -- A man buys the novel The Invisible Man by "G.H. Wells" at a bookshop, and in it finds the recipe for Wells' invisibility potion. Then the opportunity makes the thief.

• {en} [The] Little Darling (USA 1909 Griffith) <YouTube> -- Lillie runs a boarding house full of young bachelors. A friend writes to say she's sending her little darling daughter for a visit. The bachelors all buy toys for a little girl, but an attractive young woman gets off the train instead. Starring Mary Pickford.

• {en} Oliver Twist (USA 1909 Blackton) <YouTube> -- An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

• {fr} [A] Panicky Picnic / Une excursion incohérente (FRA 1909 Chomon) <YouTube> -- On a fine winter morning, an aristocratic couple of city dwellers decide to have a picnic in the great outdoors, however, everything seems to go wrong, all at once.

• {en} [The] Red Man's View (USA 1909 Griffith) <YouTube> -- 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.

• {en} Resurrection (USA 1909 Griffith) <YouTube> -- Free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful novel. The subject opens with the return home of Prince Dimitri, who meets the maid Katusha, a little peasant girl, and is instantly charmed with her beauty.

• {fr} Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares / Cauchemar et doux rêves (FRA 1909 Chomón) <YouTube> -- An attractive young woman, falling asleep on a park bench, begins to dream. Satan appears to her as she sleeps, and sends her off to a hellish cavern which is inhabited by big-headed, large, hideous dwarf-like creatures.

• {en} Those Awful Hats (USA 1909 Griffith) <YouTube> -- Set in an early cinema house, this comic short illustrates the problems with the gals' hats obscuring the movie patron's line of vision.

• {en} Tom Thumb / Le petit poucet (FRA 1909 Chomon) <YouTube> -- Early adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic novel.

• {en} [A] Trap for Santa Claus (USA 1909 Griffith) <YouTube> -- The children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney.

• {en} [The] Violin Maker of Cremona (USA 1909 Griffith) <YouTube> -- In the little Italian city of Cremona there dwelt Taddeo Ferrari, a violin maker and student of Andrea Amati, the most famous of the craft.

• {en} Voice of the Violin (USA 1909 Griffith) <YouTube> -- A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his anger he joins a communist group who plan to blow up a rich capitalist's house. When he realizes it's Helen's house, he tries to stop the plan.

Critical Reception

Flickchart, Best Films

-- @1. The Devilish Tenant [La locataire diabolique] (Melies) -- @2. Custody of the Child (Feuillade) -- @3. The Sealed Room (Griffith) -- @4. Edgar Allan Poe (Griffith) -- @5. A Corner in Wheat (Griffith) -- @6. Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (Blackton) -- @7. The Country Doctor (Griffith) -- @8. The Lonely Villa (Griffith) -- @9. The Red Man's View (Griffith) -- @10. Spring (Feuillade)

-- @12. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Kent, Blackton) -- @13. Those Awful Hats (Griffith) -- @20. A Panicky Picnic -- @24. A Trap for Santa Claus (Griffith) -- @39. The Invisible Thief (Chomon) -- @42. A Trip to Jupiter (Chomon) -- @48. The Violin Maker of Cremona (Griffith)

History of Cinema, Best Films (9)

-- A Corner in Wheat (Griffith) -- A Drunkard's Reformation (Griffith) -- A Trip to Jupiter [La voyage sur Jupiter] (Chomon) -- La fee des Greves (Feuillade) -- The Devilish Tenant [La locataire diabolique] (Melies) -- Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (Blackton) -- The Lonely Villa (Griffith) -- Le papillon fantastique (Melies) -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Kent, Blackton)

Silent Era, Best Films (1)

-- #261. Corner in Wheat

Letterboxd, Best Films (9)

-- #1. A Corner in Wheat (Griffith) -- #2. The Country Doctor (Griffith) -- #3. The Lonely Villa (Griffith) -- #4. Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (Blackton) -- #5. Those Awful Hats -- #6. The Diabolic Tenant -- #7. The Sealed Room -- #8. A Trip to Jupiter -- #9. A Panicky Picnic

External links

• 1909 in film -- Wikipedia