William K.L. Dickson Movies

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds...

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

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

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

Bears that are trained.

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

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...

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

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,...

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

Women bathing in a german bath.

"A company of little darkies showing off their paces to the music of the banjo."

A parade in the Vatican.

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

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

Early short film.