William K.L. Dickson Filmes

"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a...

Two gamecocks fight in the Edison Company film studio. This feature was remade later in the same year, with additional detail added.

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896,...

Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of...

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1" and "Monkeyshines, No. 2". Once again, an Edison company worker moves...

Probably the first video of a Pope: Leo XIII sits in his chair with guards and attendants, then blesses the viewers.

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

"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

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

James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

An athlete demonstrating various poses.

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

Filmmaker WKL Dickson, one-time right hand man to Thomas Edison, the 'Wizard of Menlo Park', here captures an even greater eminence, Pope Leo XIII....

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

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