William K.L. Dickson Movies

"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face. Split Rock, NY.

James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.

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

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

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both...

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest...

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

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

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...

Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what...

Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows...

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

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

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

Phantom train ride along the French Riviera in Monte Carlo, Monaco

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.