William K.L. Dickson Movies

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion...

"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

An African American family eats watermelons.

Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.

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

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1" and "Monkeyshines, No. 2". Once again, an Edison company worker moves...

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

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

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

Two men box while standing on their hands

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

This advertisement shows a happy woman with her bicycle. A man rides up, sweaty from exertion, for his bike is much heavier than the woman's superior...

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

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

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

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face. Split Rock, NY.