William K.L. Dickson Movies

A scene from Charles Hoyt's 'A Milk White Flag': A brass band marches out, led by bandmaster Steele Ayers. When Ayers reaches his position, he turns...

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

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

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

British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, South Africa, during the Boer War.

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...

A parade in the Vatican.

An athlete demonstrating various poses.

Early short film.

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

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

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

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

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...

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

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

James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.

The pope taking a twilight walk.

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