William K.L. Dickson Movies

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

Bears that are trained.

"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start...

Edison short.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

Thomas Edison's machinist, Fred Ott, holds a bird in his hand.

"Sir Hiram Maxim, in person, firing at targets with one of his latest type rapid-fire guns.

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

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

In April the bloemencorso (flower parade) takes place in Haarlem in the Netherlands. This shot shows groups of carriages, festooned with flowers...

After launching production in London Dickson traveled to the Continent; the first stop was Paris, where this restaging of a familiar Lumière...

Men run a training course

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...