William K.L. Dickson Movies

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.

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

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

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

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...

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

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...

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

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West...

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

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

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

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the...

The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete".

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

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