01 January 1909 Factual 2 mins
In a small town 30 km outside of Naples, you’ll find Nola, famous for its late June Lily Festival known in Italy as the Festa dei Gigli. The celebration is held on the Sunday after June 22, the day San Paolino returned from captivity, having been held by the Hun in North Africa.
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Italy 01 January 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
01 January 1909
A young shepherd and servant girl are separated when she is sold into slavery and taken to Alexandria.
19 February 1909
A young sailor dozes off in the grass in Frederiksberg Have and wakes up surrounded by supernatural fairylike creatures.
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.
08 August 1909
A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the locals skin the animal.
22 May 1909
"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical Tragedy".
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.
15 October 1909
Based on the celebrated novel by Alessandro Manzoni, "The Betrothed", the film tells the passage of Lucia being sent on an errand by the Nun of Monza, her kidnapping at the hands of "the Unnamed", and this man's meeting with the Cardinal Borromeo, whose intercession is key for the liberation of Lucia.
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