William K.L. Dickson Movies

Military subjects were consistent crowd-pleasers, and this film showing a near fatal accident was especially popular.

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

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

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

Military in Germany.

A London fire brigade springs into action.

Sequel to the Rats and Terrier series

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

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

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy...

"Showing the wind-up of a political discussion. Dramatis personae: A Democrat, a Republican, a Bar Maid, and a Policeman."

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

A remarkable picture in many ways. It shows a game between two expert English teams from the go-off to the making of a goal. The photographic effects...

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

A "gigantic demonstration of the Business Men's Republican and Sound Money Association" on 10/31/1896, opposing "Free Silver" Democrats in the...

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

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