William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

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

A parade in the Vatican.

Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows...

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...

Annabelle Dances in William K.L. Dickson's 1894 short film

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the...

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

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