William K.L. Dickson Movies

DUPLICATE of Countryside Near Amsterdam? [A draught-dog, unwilling to do its work, lets its load fall into the water.]

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

One of the series gives successive pictures of an athlete in an unsuccessful attempt to turn a somersault. Everybody who has seen a boy perform this...

Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects.

Edison short.

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many...

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Sequel to Rats Killing from 1894

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds...

An amusing picture showing a quarrel between an elderly husband and his young wife, and a joyful reconciliation.

Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.

A beautiful view of one of the most celebrated spots in the French capital. A magnificent fountain is playing in the background of the picture, and...

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

"A magnificent picture of the launching of the 'Oceanic,' which up to that time was the largest vessel ever floated. The view is taken from a pier...