William K.L. Dickson Movies

William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.

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

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the...

Two gamecocks are fighting inside a wire cage, while two spectators look on in the background. The two men agree to make a bet on the outcome. One of...

Film shot by W.K.L. Dickson at Maidenhead Junction, 1898.

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

A charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored.

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...

"Sir Hiram Maxim, in person, firing at targets with one of his latest type rapid-fire guns.

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

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

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

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...

W. K.L. Dickson's film of a procession of Capuchin monks.

An abridged version of the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, who wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where...

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background

Two men box while standing on their hands

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...

Thomas Edison's machinist, Fred Ott, holds a bird in his hand.