William K.L. Dickson Movies

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

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

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

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

"A magnificent picture of the launching of the 'Oceanic,' which up to that time was the largest vessel ever floated. The view is taken from a pier...

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

Women bathing in a german bath.

Members of the 'Savage South Africa' troupe at Southampton Docks. The film shows a group of Africans (Zulus) in full tribal attire at Southampton...

"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start...

An African American family eats watermelons.

Men run a training course

After launching production in London Dickson traveled to the Continent; the first stop was Paris, where this restaging of a familiar Lumière...

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face. Split Rock, NY.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

An amusing picture showing a quarrel between an elderly husband and his young wife, and a joyful reconciliation.

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.