William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

Two men box while standing on their hands

Carriages carrying Queen Wilhelmina arrive in Amsterdam

A single shot of a fleet of warships at sea, with a sunset sky superimposed from another sequence to complete the effect.

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

"A fascinating, up-to-date dancing diversion by four pretty girls in stunning costumes."

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

"A company of little darkies showing off their paces to the music of the banjo."

Dan Leno and his wife celebrating the anniversary of their wedding day.

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

Bears that are trained.

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...

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

"Said to be the Champion High Kicker of the World."

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

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

An African American family eats watermelons.

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

After launching production in London Dickson traveled to the Continent; the first stop was Paris, where this restaging of a familiar Lumière...