William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background

A parade in the Vatican.

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

Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate. One gets...

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a...

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the...

Windmills along the River Zaan.

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

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

The pope taking a twilight walk.

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

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds...

The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

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...

Rip Van Winkle drinks with mysterious mountain men.

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.