William K.L. Dickson Movies

[DUPLICATE of the other 'Panoramic View of Frere Camp']

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women...

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

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

The pope taking a twilight walk.

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

"This view was made at the Scheveningen Baths. It shows a number of bathers enjoying themselves in the surf. Several picturesque Holland boats are...

Early Edison film.

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...

"A magnificent picture of the launching of the 'Oceanic,' which up to that time was the largest vessel ever floated. The view is taken from a pier...

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

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

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

Men run a training course

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was...

Edison short.

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

Part of the 'Giant Postcards' series, a filmed entr'acte screened during the play 'De Nieuwe Prikkel' by August Reyding. Camilla and Roland take the...