William K.L. Dickson Movies

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

Men run a training course

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

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

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

"A company of little darkies showing off their paces to the music of the banjo."

Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896,...

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

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...

DUPLICATE of Countryside Near Amsterdam? [A draught-dog, unwilling to do its work, lets its load fall into the water.]

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Early short film.

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

Edison short.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.