William K.L. Dickson Movies

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.

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

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

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...

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...

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

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

Sequel to Rats and Terrier No. 2

The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects.

Sequel to the Rats and Terrier series

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1" and "Monkeyshines, No. 2". Once again, an Edison company worker moves...

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

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

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...

"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...

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