22 December 1909 Comedy 5 mins
Comedy from a series about the character Cretinetti. He is organizing a Christmas party but it ends up being a total mess. He buys a Christmas tree, but the tree is so big that he can hardly transport it to the party. As he runs around the city with the tree he creates one disaster after another.
Watch the official Il Natale di Cretinetti 1909 trailer in HD below.
Foolshead's Christmas Trailer
Italy 22 December 1909
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17 June 1909
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
27 February 1909
Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star.
23 July 1909
Pathé film #2871. In a hotel, a weary traveler settles down to rest. But, hallucinations brought on by fatigue: monsters appear around the bed, which vanishes, while the traveler, thrown to the floor, gets up and grabs a chair.
28 June 1909
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and encircling a scene showing school children of 1830 receiving their marks of diligence at a distribution of rewards: then the wreath of bay tendered by the Human Senators to Caesar on the culmination of his career; now a beggar receives a loaf called a "crown" from a charitable passerby: Christ is shown crowned with thorns by the rabble; following the divine drama we see the old comedian's wreath presented him at a performance.
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First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.
22 October 1909
Max Linder is an ardent suitor for the hand of a somewhat rampageous young lady. The gentle Max suffers sadly from her rough treatment, but at length he extracts the promise that she will marry him when he has learned to juggle with three balls.
08 November 1909
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12 December 1909
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30 August 1909
If all husbands have had similar experiences, it is too bad to harrow them up with the telling of this story.
19 July 1909
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 fiancé from the city.
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