William K.L. Dickson Filmes

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...

Sequel to the Rats and Terrier series

Men run a training course

Part of the 'Giant Postcards' series, a filmed entr'acte screened during the play 'De Nieuwe Prikkel' by August Reyding. Camilla and Roland take the...

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

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

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

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations,...

British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, South Africa, during the Boer War.

"Many spectators who have viewed this picture on the Biograph have insisted that they have experienced the pangs of seasickness. The picture was...

An African American family eats watermelons.

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

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...

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

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

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many...

Edison short.

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