William K.L. Dickson Movies

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

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

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

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...

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

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

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

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

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

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

Windmills along the River Zaan.

Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.

Edison short.

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...

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

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.