William K.L. Dickson Movies

A remix of Dickson's Annabelle Butterfly Dance with a modern score.

Young people dance the Tarantella

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

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

A very amusing picture, showing a crowd of children and old folks disporting on a sand hill in one of the big public parks of Berlin. This picture is...

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

Thomas Edison's machinist, Fred Ott, holds a bird in his hand.

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

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

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

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

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...

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

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

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

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and...

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...

Sequel to Rats Killing from 1894

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