William K.L. Dickson Movies

"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was...

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

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....

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in...

Part of the 'Giant Postcards' series, a filmed entr'acte screened during the play 'De Nieuwe Prikkel' by August Reyding. Camilla and Roland take the...

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

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

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Two men box while standing on their hands

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

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.

A beautiful view of one of the most celebrated spots in the French capital. A magnificent fountain is playing in the background of the picture, and...

One of the series gives successive pictures of an athlete in an unsuccessful attempt to turn a somersault. Everybody who has seen a boy perform this...

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

"The Worthing Station is some distance from the shore, and whenever there is a wreck the life-boat is dragged to the scene on a huge truck drawn by...

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

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

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

A London fire brigade springs into action.

An African American family eats watermelons.