A Troublesome Satchel
Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can’t get rid of the bag, even when he’s robbed. The thieves assume he’s a colleague and return the bag and tools.
Genre Comedy
A Wreath in Time
A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own elegiac cinerary floral offerings, and at the time John was…
Ben Gets a Duck and Is Ducked
A film directed by , released in 1909.
The Gibson Goddess
A pack of admirers won’t leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limbs appear misshapen. All…
The Lure of the Gown
“Fine feathers make fine birds”, and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker’s art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom…
The Road to the Heart
Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he reconciles with his daughter so he can get a good meal.
The Trick that Failed
Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she sells her paintings. Billy recruits his friends to buy her paintings. At first she is…
A Case of Seltzer
A Gilbert M. Anderson film directed by , released in 1909.
The Christmas Burglars
Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren’s assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
The Invisible Fluid
Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, “Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!” No indeed! He…
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