William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

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...

A "gigantic demonstration of the Business Men's Republican and Sound Money Association" on 10/31/1896, opposing "Free Silver" Democrats in the...

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

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

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy...

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...

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

Bears that are trained.

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

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

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

In April the bloemencorso (flower parade) takes place in Haarlem in the Netherlands. This shot shows groups of carriages, festooned with flowers...

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...

Members of the 'Savage South Africa' troupe at Southampton Docks. The film shows a group of Africans (Zulus) in full tribal attire at Southampton...

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

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

Two Mexican men duel with knives.

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