William K.L. Dickson Movies

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1". Once again, an Edison company worker moves around in front of the motion...

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Young people dance the Tarantella

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...

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

Lost film from 1894, directed by William K.L. Dickson.

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

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

Black hooded pallbearers carry a coffin in a funeral procession in front of onlookers.

Annabelle Dances in William K.L. Dickson's 1894 short film

Lee Martin, one of the cowboy stars in 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West', rides a bronco as a crowd looks on. While the horse is trying to throw Martin off...

Sandow and Peerless Annabelle were the first performers filmed by the new American Mutoscope Co. Annabelle reprised her Butterfly Dance and several...

A charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete".

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

Two boxers miss their punches - until they don't.

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...