William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

Dan Leno and his wife celebrating the anniversary of their wedding day.

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

An African American family eats watermelons.

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

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...

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

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...

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

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

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

A single shot of a fleet of warships at sea, with a sunset sky superimposed from another sequence to complete the effect.

Sequel to Rats Killing from 1894

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a...

"This view was made at the Scheveningen Baths. It shows a number of bathers enjoying themselves in the surf. Several picturesque Holland boats are...

Edison short.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

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