William K.L. Dickson Movies

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

Annabelle Dances in William K.L. Dickson's 1894 short film

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...

The boulevard in front of the Kurhaus, with pedestrians and a terrace.

Phantom train ride along the French Riviera in Monte Carlo, Monaco

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

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

Sequel to Rats Killing from 1894

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

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

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

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

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

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

The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.

This 1894 film depicts a staged “war council” featuring a group of Sioux men in traditional dress, seated in deliberation as Buffalo Bill...

The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks

An amusing picture showing a quarrel between an elderly husband and his young wife, and a joyful reconciliation.