William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

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

From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war...

Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate. One gets...

A remarkable picture in many ways. It shows a game between two expert English teams from the go-off to the making of a goal. The photographic effects...

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films...

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

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

The pope taking a twilight walk.

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

Early Edison film.

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

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.

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

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

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

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the...

Match boy saves mother and baby from drunken husband.

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks