Top 10 Films of 1909

1. "The Lonely Villa" (D.W. Griffith, Biograph)

2. "Nerone" (Luigi Maggi, Italy)

3. "Corner In Wheat" (D.W. Griffith, Biograph)

4. "Those Awful Hats" (D.W. Griffith, Biograph)

5. "The Airship Destroyer" (Walter R. Booth, UK)

6. "The Hessian Renegades" (D.W.Griffith, Biograph)

7. "Affaires de coeur" (Emile Cohl, France)

8. "Le Printemps" (Louis Feuillade, France)

9. "Les Joyeux microbes" (Emile Cohl, France)

10. "16th Century Russian Wedding" (Vasili Goncharov, Russia)

Other great shorts:

Forfeits (Austria)

In The Studio (Austria)

Like Master Like Servant (Austria)

Living Marble (Austria)

The Magic Of The Mandarins (Austria)

Weak shorts of 1909:

The Country Doctor
Les Illusions fantaisistes (France)
Le Locataire diabolique (France)
Mr Flip
Nursing A Viper
The Redman's View
Romeo se fait bandit (France)
The Sealed Room
What Drink Did

Weak cartoons:

Princess Nicotine