William K.L. Dickson Movies

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films...

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

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

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

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

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

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

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

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

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 tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

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

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

Edison short.

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

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

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

Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.

An African American family eats watermelons.

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play