1909 in film

The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.

List of years in film (table)

Events

Films released in 1909

J. Stuart Blackton

D. W. Griffith

Georges Méliès

  • The Count's Wooing
  • The Diabolical Tenant (aka The Diabolical Lodger), directed by George Melies (French)[6]
  • The Doctor's Secret, directed by George Melies (French)[7]
  • Fortune Favors the Brave, directed by George Melies (French)[8]
  • Le papillon fantastique

Others

  • The Adventures of Lieutenant Rose
  • The Airship Destroyer (originally titled Der Luftkrieg Der Zukunft, also titled "The Aerial Torpedo", "The Battle of the Clouds" {UK} and "The Battle in the Clouds" {US}), directed by Walter R. Booth
  • The Ancient Roman (made in Italy)
  • Ballad of a Witch, directed by Luigi Maggi (made in Italy)
  • The Bewitched Manor House (French/ Pathe)[9]
  • Bluebeard, directed by J. Searle Dawley for Thomas Edison, starred Charles Ogle
  • The Bogey Woman (French/ Pathe)
  • The Butcher's Dream (French)
  • Capturing the North Pole, features Baron Munchausen (British/ Urban-Eclipse Films)[10]
  • The Cat That Was Changed Into a Woman, directed by Louis Feuillade (French)
  • The Convict Guardian's Nightmare (French)
  • The Cowboy Millionaire, directed by Francis Boggs and Otis Turner
  • Dance of Fire (Pathe)
  • Dante's Inferno, directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro, starring Salvatore Papa (Italian); ran 59 minutes[11]
  • The Defeat of Satan (French/ Pathe)[12]
  • The Devil (Edison Co.) adaptation of the play starring George Arliss[13]
  • Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, directed by August Blom, starring Alwin Neuss and Oda Alstrup; made in Denmark for Nordisk Films[14]
  • Don Juan Tenorio, directed by Enrique Rosas (made in Mexico)
  • Doomed (French/ Pathe)
  • The Egyptian Mystery (Edison)
  • Electric Transformations, directed by Percy Stow (British/ Clarendon)[15]
  • Entrevista de los Presidentes Díaz-Taft (Mexico), a documentary directed by the Alva Brothers
  • Faust, directed by J. Searle Dawley and Edwin S. Porter for Thomas Edison
  • The Ferryman's Sweetheart (Gaumont)[16]
  • The Fitzsimmons-Bill Lang Fight
  • The Forbidden Fruit (Pathe)[17]
  • Gertie the Dinosaur, animated cartoon by Winsor McKay[18]
  • Goddess of the Sea[19]
  • The Grey Lady (aka The Grey Dame), directed by Viggo Larsen, starring Viggo Larsen as Sherlock Holmes (Denmark)[20]
  • Hansel and Gretel[21]
  • The Haunted Hotel (French/ Pathe)
  • The Haunted Man, introduced the "doppelganger" theme, similar to The Student of Prague (Germany/ Duskes Film)[22]
  • Her Dolly's Revenge (French/ Lux)
  • Hiawatha, directed by William V. Ranous based on the 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the first film produced by Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures.[2]
  • The Hunchback, directed by Van Dyke Brooke for Vitagraph; unauthorized remake of the 1906 film Esmeralda[23]
  • The Imp of the Bottle (Thomas Edison), based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson[24]
  • The Invisible Thief, directed by Segundo de Chomon and Ferdinand Zecca (French); first adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel The Invisible Man[25]
  • Les Joyeux Microbes, directed by Émile Cohl
  • The Last Look (Pathe)[26]
  • Lucrece Borgia (French)
  • Lunatics in Power (Thomas Edison Co.), based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe called The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether[27]
  • Macbeth, directed by André Calmettes
  • The Man Monkey (Pathe)[28]
  • The Man Who Laughs (French), based on the famous novel by Victor Hugo
  • The Marvelous Pearl (made in Italy)[29]
  • Mephisto and the Maiden, directed by Frank Boggs
  • The Mirror of Life (French/ Pathe)[30]
  • Miss Faust (French/ Pathe)[31]
  • Mr. Flip, directed by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
  • A Modern Dr. Jekyll;;, produced by William Selig
  • The Moonstone, produced by William Selig, based on the novel by Wilkie Collins[32]
  • Mother Goose (Edison Co.)
  • The Mummy of the King Ramses directed by Gerard Bourgeois (French)
  • Mystery of Edwin Drood, directed by Arthur Gilbert (British), based on Charles Dickens' novel
  • Mystery of the Lama Convent, directed by Viggo Larsen (Denmark)
  • Nerone, directed by Luigi Maggi
  • The New Jonah (Pathe)[33]
  • The Nymphs' Bath (French/ Gaumont)[34]
  • The Old Shoemaker (French/ Gaumont), based on The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Oriental Mystic (Vitagraph, U.S.)
  • Papa Gaspard; or, The Ghost of the Rocks[35]
  • Phaedra (French/ Pathe) featured a sea monster[36]
  • The Phantom Sirens[37]
  • The Pit and the Pendulum, directed by Henri Desfontaines (French/ Warwick), based on the famous story by Edgar Allan Poe[38]
  • The Princess and the Fisherman, directed by Louis Feuillade (French)[39]
  • Revenge of the Ghosts, animated cartoon directed by Emil Cohl (French)[40]
  • Satan's Smithy, directed by Segundo de Chomon (French)
  • Shooting in the Haunted Woods, directed by Louis Feuillade (French)
  • The Spirit of the Lake (fantasy film made in Italy); it was followed by a sequel called The Legend of the Lake in 1911[41]
  • The Suicide Club, directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset (French)
  • The Sword and the King (U.S./ Vitagraph)
  • Talked to Death (Lubin)[42]
  • Teddy Roosevelt in Africa, directed by Cherry Kearton
  • Tis Now the Very Witching Time of Night, produced by Thomas Edison
  • The Ugliest Queen on Earth (French/ Gaumont)[43]
  • Viy (aka The Vij), directed by Vasilii Gonmcharov (Russian)[44]
  • The Wild Ass's Skin (French/ Pathe) based on the story by Balzac[45]
  • The Witch[46]
  • The Witch's Cavern (Selig Polyscope)[47]

Births

Deaths

  • January 27 – Benoît-Constant Coquelin, actor, Cyrano de Bergerac (born 1841)
  • September 4 – Clyde Fitch, author & playwright whose works have been adapted into films. (born 1865)

Film debuts

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