William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

Military in Germany.

This advertisement shows a happy woman with her bicycle. A man rides up, sweaty from exertion, for his bike is much heavier than the woman's superior...

"Showing the wind-up of a political discussion. Dramatis personae: A Democrat, a Republican, a Bar Maid, and a Policeman."

Sequel to Rats and Terrier No. 2

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

The pope taking a twilight walk.

Two men box while standing on their hands

Windmills along the River Zaan.

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

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

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

Women bathing in a german bath.

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....

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.