William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

An African American family eats watermelons.

Two gamecocks are fighting inside a wire cage, while two spectators look on in the background. The two men agree to make a bet on the outcome. One of...

Early short film.

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

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....

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

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

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

Two men box while standing on their hands

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

A remix of Dickson's Annabelle Butterfly Dance with a modern score.

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

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

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

"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...