04 November 1909 Comedy 4 mins
Out for a stroll, the short-sighted governess is more absorbed in her paper than in governing, leading to a series of unfortunate events, not least returning home with a boy instead of the daughter of the house. (stumfilm.dk)
Watch the official The Short-Sighted Governess 1909 trailer in HD below.
Sorry, we can't find the movie trailer you're looking for.
Either a trailer for this movie has not been released yet, or it was removed following a request from the copyright holder.
Petrine Sonne as Governess
Viggo Larsen Director
The Near-Sighted Governess Trailer
Denmark 04 November 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
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.
01 June 1909
A young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off.
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.
16 December 1909
Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away.
11 March 1909
A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists.
09 July 1909
The King and his official astronomer are alone in the study viewing the heavenly bodies through the monstrous telescope.
30 August 1909
If all husbands have had similar experiences, it is too bad to harrow them up with the telling of this story.
14 October 1909
One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.
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.
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.
29 March 1909
Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.
Have you watched The Short-Sighted Governess yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1909 Nordisk Film Denmark.