William K.L. Dickson Movies

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

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

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

Muskoka Lake District, Canada. Beautiful picture, showing a man casting a fly, getting a strike, and landing the trout.

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

"This view was made at the Scheveningen Baths. It shows a number of bathers enjoying themselves in the surf. Several picturesque Holland boats are...

An African American family eats watermelons.

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

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

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

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

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

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

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

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

Young people dance the Tarantella

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

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...

Edison short.