William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

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

A lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.

"This view was made at the Scheveningen Baths. It shows a number of bathers enjoying themselves in the surf. Several picturesque Holland boats are...

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

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

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

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

The pope taking a twilight walk.

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

"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was...

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

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

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

Two gamecocks are fighting inside a wire cage, while two spectators look on in the background. The two men agree to make a bet on the outcome. One of...