William K.L. Dickson Movies

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the...

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...

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...

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

Annabelle Dances in William K.L. Dickson's 1894 short film

Sailors practice rescuing someone who's fallen overboard.

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

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

Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

Sequel to the Rats and Terrier series

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

Edison short.

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

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

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

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds...