William K.L. Dickson Movies

The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete".

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

Queen Vilhelmina greeting the crowds after the coronation.

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

In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters...

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

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

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

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

Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate. One gets...

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

A parade in the Vatican.

Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

Two boxers miss their punches - until they don't.

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

Queen Wilhelmina arrives to the palace during her coronation.

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and...

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

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...