William K.L. Dickson Movies

Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film. Film...

In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters...

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

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1" and "Monkeyshines, No. 2". Once again, an Edison company worker moves...

"Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison...

A referee and five fans (including a waiter in his apron) look on as two young men box. The dark-haired, slightly taller boxer throws a right and the...

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

An African American family eats watermelons.

A lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.

Lost film from 1894, directed by William K.L. Dickson.

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.

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...

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

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