William K.L. Dickson Movies

After launching production in London Dickson traveled to the Continent; the first stop was Paris, where this restaging of a familiar Lumière...

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

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

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

A very amusing picture, showing a crowd of children and old folks disporting on a sand hill in one of the big public parks of Berlin. This picture is...

In April the bloemencorso (flower parade) takes place in Haarlem in the Netherlands. This shot shows groups of carriages, festooned with flowers...

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

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

Early Edison film.

Young people dance the Tarantella

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

Windmills along the River Zaan.

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

Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.

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

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start...