William K.L. Dickson Movies

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

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...

The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.

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

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...

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...

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

An abridged version of the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, who wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where...

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

“This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his...

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

Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match...

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...

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 lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

Lost film from 1894, directed by William K.L. Dickson.

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

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

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...