William K.L. Dickson Movies

Members of the 'Savage South Africa' troupe at Southampton Docks. The film shows a group of Africans (Zulus) in full tribal attire at Southampton...

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

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

This 1894 film depicts a staged “war council” featuring a group of Sioux men in traditional dress, seated in deliberation as Buffalo Bill...

A parade in the Vatican.

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...

Annabelle Dances in William K.L. Dickson's 1894 short film

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in...

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

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

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

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

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1". Once again, an Edison company worker moves around in front of the motion...

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

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

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...