William K.L. Dickson Movies

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896,...

Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.

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

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the...

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

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

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

An African American family eats watermelons.

Part of the 'Giant Postcards' series, a filmed entr'acte screened during the play 'De Nieuwe Prikkel' by August Reyding. Camilla and Roland take the...

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

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

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

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...

"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...

Early Edison film.

Early short film.