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.

Military subjects were consistent crowd-pleasers, and this film showing a near fatal accident was especially popular.

Thomas Edison's machinist, Fred Ott, holds a bird in his hand.

A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her...

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896,...

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

Young people dance the Tarantella

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

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Early Edison film.

A single shot of a fleet of warships at sea, with a sunset sky superimposed from another sequence to complete the effect.

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

Edison short.

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

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

Sequel to the Rats and Terrier series

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.