William K.L. Dickson Movies

Men run a training course

Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet General Buller's relief column.

Edison short.

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

Early short film.

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

Bears that are trained.

Sailors disembarking on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. Shot on 68 mm Mutoscope-Biograph.

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.

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

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

A moving tour through lively turn-of-the-century Southampton.

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

Close shot of 4.7" naval gun pointing to the left with group of British naval ratings standing around it. The gun fires and the men run up to reload,...

The pope taking a twilight walk.

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

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

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

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.