William K.L. Dickson Movies

Early Edison film.

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

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.

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.

"A fascinating, up-to-date dancing diversion by four pretty girls in stunning costumes."

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

Early short film.

Sandow and Peerless Annabelle were the first performers filmed by the new American Mutoscope Co. Annabelle reprised her Butterfly Dance and several others, among them this example of American patriotism.

"Said to be the Champion High Kicker of the World."

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women and Wine'. The actresses are believed to be Edith Blanche and Beatrice Homer.

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

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 act knows the brief space of time it takes him to throw himself upon his hands, with his feet in the air and how quickly he recovers himself if he...

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

Edison short.

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

Two Mexican men duel with knives.

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

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