Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Title Director Cast Genre Notes A B C's of the U.S.A. Adventures of a Drummer Boy: And a Little Child Shall Lead Them: D. W. Griffith: Marion Leonard, Arthur V. Johnson: At the Altar
May 12 – Mr. Flip is released, the first film to feature someone being hit in the face with a pie. May 23 – The first news cinema , The Daily Bioscope, opens in London. June 17 – In the Sultan's Power , directed by Francis Boggs , is the first film ever completely made in Los Angeles, California .
The Curtain Pole is a 1909 American comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith.A print of the film still exists. [3] The film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century.
The rapid pace of film production at Biograph by 1909 and the brief runtimes of those screen projects, in particular the six-to-seven-minute split-reel releases like A Rude Hostess, proved to be especially frustrating for Griffith, who often compared the repetitive split-reel process to the work of a sausage-maker. [9]
Film portal This category is for film events and films originally released in the year 1909 . Individual films appear in the subcategory Category:1909 films .
Leather Stocking is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, adapted from James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans. [ 1 ] Cast
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
Les Misérables is a 1909 American silent historical drama proto-feature film (four short films that can be seen separately as a series, but when combined resemble a full-length feature film). The proto-feature movie is based on the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo, and stars Maurice Costello and William V. Ranous.