01 January 1909 Factual 1 mins
A short film in which the members of the Motion Pictures Patents Company (which had been founded only a year earlier) congratulate Thomas Edison himself on receiving a new patent.
Watch the official Meeting of the Motion Pictures Patents Company 1909 trailer in HD below.
Thomas A. Edison as Himself
Thomas A. Edison Producer
United States 01 January 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
27 November 1909
Jim Flanders, a wealthy ranchman, has a beautiful daughter, Alice, who is loved by Tom Ripley, the foreman of the ranch.
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".
21 August 1909
A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recently suffered conflagrations and other disasters, and Nero, hoping to divert the public wrath from his own misconduct, has encouraged the persecution of the growing sect of Christians.
16 May 1909
Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.
01 July 1909
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
04 December 1909
Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the Deliverance of the Hebrews, The Victory of Israel, The Promised Land), 4 December 1909 to 19 February 1910.
05 April 1909
A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person.
29 July 1909
A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food.
09 July 1909
The King and his official astronomer are alone in the study viewing the heavenly bodies through the monstrous telescope.
14 October 1909
One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.
02 December 1909
During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die.
16 September 1909
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink.
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