William K.L. Dickson Movies

Windmills along the River Zaan.

The pope taking a twilight walk.

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

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

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

Two boxers miss their punches - until they don't.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

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

From Wikipedia: Sua Santità papa Leone XIII (Italian for "His Holiness Pope Leo XIII") is an 1898 short film directed by William Kennedy...

A London fire brigade springs into action.

"Showing the wind-up of a political discussion. Dramatis personae: A Democrat, a Republican, a Bar Maid, and a Policeman."

Sequel to the Rats and Terrier series

Film by W.K.L. Dickson; Rounding a bend in the track, we behold Windsor Castle.

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background

A remarkable picture in many ways. It shows a game between two expert English teams from the go-off to the making of a goal. The photographic effects...

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

A "gigantic demonstration of the Business Men's Republican and Sound Money Association" on 10/31/1896, opposing "Free Silver" Democrats in the...

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

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