William K.L. Dickson Movies

A "gigantic demonstration of the Business Men's Republican and Sound Money Association" on 10/31/1896, opposing "Free Silver" Democrats in the...

A remarkable picture in many ways. It shows a game between two expert English teams from the go-off to the making of a goal. The photographic effects...

A referee and five fans (including a waiter in his apron) look on as two young men box. The dark-haired, slightly taller boxer throws a right and the...

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

Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

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

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women...

Young people dance the Tarantella

Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

Military subjects were consistent crowd-pleasers, and this film showing a near fatal accident was especially popular.

Sequel to the Rats and Terrier series

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

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

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

A London fire brigade springs into action.

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

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

In April the bloemencorso (flower parade) takes place in Haarlem in the Netherlands. This shot shows groups of carriages, festooned with flowers...