William K.L. Dickson Movies

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

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...

In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters...

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

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...

Sequel to Rats and Terrier No. 2

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

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

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...

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

Edison short.

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