William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

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

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

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...

Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...

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...

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

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...

Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a...

Early short film.

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

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

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

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

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...