Movies: William K.L. Dickson

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896, while Dickson and Bitzer were filming McKinley and the Empire State Express....

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 gala attire, from the grandfather down to the baby, are entertaining some visiting friends. Wine is br...

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 other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to drive the nail into the shoe of the horse's hoof, ...

Directed by W.K.L Dickson....

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 act knows the brief space of time it takes him to throw himself upon his hands, with his feet in the ...

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Windmills along the River Zaan....

Women bathing in a german bath....

[DUPLICATE of the other 'Panoramic View of Frere Camp']...

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

Sequel to Rats Killing from 1894...

A camera sits on top of a moving train, providing a panoramic view of Ealing (western London) as the train moves....

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

"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 magnificent historical palaces. The photographic work is unusually fine."...

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The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects....

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

"An interesting picture of the great inter-collegiate eight-oared boat race of 1899. The picture is taken from the judge's boat, and shows the start and first part of the race."...

Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta....

A British Mutoscope & Biograph production....