William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."

One of the series gives successive pictures of an athlete in an unsuccessful attempt to turn a somersault. Everybody who has seen a boy perform this...

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

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects.

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

Edison short.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

"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...

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...

Sequel to Rats Killing from 1894

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....

Bears that are trained.

Edison short.

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

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

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

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

"A company of little darkies showing off their paces to the music of the banjo."

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...