William K.L. Dickson Filmes

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what...

James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.

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

From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war...

William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.

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...

The pursuit of Hop Lee by an irate policeman.

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

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 charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored.

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

An athlete demonstrating various poses.