William K.L. Dickson Movies

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United...

"The Worthing Station is some distance from the shore, and whenever there is a wreck the life-boat is dragged to the scene on a huge truck drawn by...

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...

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

Parade of guards during Queen Wilhelminas coronation.

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

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face. Split Rock, NY.

"A magnificent picture of the launching of the 'Oceanic,' which up to that time was the largest vessel ever floated. The view is taken from a pier...

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

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...

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

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

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

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

A lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.

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...