William K.L. Dickson Movies

Two gamecocks are fighting inside a wire cage, while two spectators look on in the background. The two men agree to make a bet on the outcome. One of...

Women bathing in a german bath.

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

After launching production in London Dickson traveled to the Continent; the first stop was Paris, where this restaging of a familiar Lumière...

A parade in the Vatican.

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

Members of the 'Savage South Africa' troupe at Southampton Docks. The film shows a group of Africans (Zulus) in full tribal attire at Southampton...

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves.

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...

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

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

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...

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

Men run a training course

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

A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her...

Reenactment of Jesus Christ with his cross.