William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

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

Two men with three lordships between them.

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

"Sir Hiram Maxim, in person, firing at targets with one of his latest type rapid-fire guns.

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

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....

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

"Showing the wind-up of a political discussion. Dramatis personae: A Democrat, a Republican, a Bar Maid, and a Policeman."

Early short film.

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in...

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

An abridged version of the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, who wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where...

Dan Leno and his wife celebrating the anniversary of their wedding day.

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

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

In April the bloemencorso (flower parade) takes place in Haarlem in the Netherlands. This shot shows groups of carriages, festooned with flowers...

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...