William K.L. Dickson Movies

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West...

Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what...

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

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films...

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

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest...

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, South Africa, during the Boer War.

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

Early short film.

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

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

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

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

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

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

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