William K.L. Dickson Movies

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife...

A beautiful view of one of the most celebrated spots in the French capital. A magnificent fountain is playing in the background of the picture, and...

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1". Once again, an Edison company worker moves around in front of the motion...

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

A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of...

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

Short shot of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice with gondoliers

Black hooded pallbearers carry a coffin in a funeral procession in front of onlookers.

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the...

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

Sequel to Rats and Terrier No. 2

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 British Mutoscope & Biograph production.

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

One of the series gives successive pictures of an athlete in an unsuccessful attempt to turn a somersault. Everybody who has seen a boy perform this...

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....

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

Tracking shot across a bay showing a large number of fishing boats.