Most Viewed Year 1909 - 27

According to Harper's Bazaar (8 March 1884), the Montreal Winter Carnival was founded as a means of promoting tourism to the country, aiming...

A sympathetic story of a moral dilemma set at the turn of the 19th century. A Frenchman joins the Chouannerie – a Royalist uprising in...

A grieving mother sends her two young children out to earn a living. No one seems willing to help them. The gendarmes are busy standing around a...

A short love story about jealousy and deceit; a soldier is in love with a girl, but when he gets injured, a jealous rival in love tells this girl...

The scene is laid at the White House, the President's home. Looking down the broad avenue are seen two autos approaching it with great haste. One...

Documentary footage of a parade in Antwerp celebrating the annexation of Congo to Belgium.

Silent film

When a Jewish man mistakenly puts a sovereign in a slot machine, he goes to extraordinary lengths to try to retrieve it.

The Youghal Clock Tower is a light-hearted and playful exploration of the possibilities of animation in its infancy. In this short, the well-known...

Jeannot sees a lithograph of a ballet dancer and decides he wants one of them and heads to the big city. Jeanette decides she can be one and likewise...

Follows legendary classical composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, creating one of his most famous pieces called “Moonlight Sonata”.

Short documentary

At a house party, people are dancing.... but one of the guests slips away from his accomplice to go break open a locked cabinet and steal money....

Life and trade at the Cattle Market on May 5, 1909, in Trier.

Marzen photographs this multi-shot document of a Catholic procession.

Jenny's father, a crank and a spiritualist, wishing to obtain a medium to aid him in his researches, inserts an advertisement in the paper to the...

Hardy trawlermen brave bad weather and rough seas off the coast of north-west England to bring in the catch.