William K.L. Dickson Movies

Produced May-June 1891, this experimental film fragment was one of the first made in America at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, N.J. The...

From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war...

The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

Men run a training course

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

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

The pope resting.

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...

A graceful performance of the Mikado dance, featuring three Japanese women in elaborate traditional costume. Originally noted for its striking effect...

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

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many...

A referee and five fans (including a waiter in his apron) look on as two young men box. The dark-haired, slightly taller boxer throws a right and the...

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her...

A remix of Dickson's Annabelle Butterfly Dance with a modern score.

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.