William K.L. Dickson Movies

"A fascinating, up-to-date dancing diversion by four pretty girls in stunning costumes."

"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was...

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, South Africa, during the Boer War.

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women...

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896,...

Close shot of 4.7" naval gun pointing to the left with group of British naval ratings standing around it. The gun fires and the men run up to reload,...

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

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

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

Young people dance the Tarantella

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

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....

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

Bears that are trained.