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William K.L. Dickson

Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Actor, Additional Credits
Born August 3, 1860Died September 28, 1935 (75 years)
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor and the Edison Manufacturing Company's official photographer. In 1889, he was assigned to turn the concept of a the proposed motion picture device, named the Kinetoscope, into a reality. The first working prototype was unveiled in May 1891 and the design of system was essentially finalised by the fall of 1892. The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.

Known For

  • Blacksmith Scene
  • Dickson Experimental Sound Film
  • Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
  • Carmencita
  • Newark Athlete
  • Monkeyshines, No. 1
  • Dickson Greeting
  • Annie Oakley
  • The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
  • The Barbershop
  • Monkeyshines, No. 2
  • Sandow: The Strong Man
  • Annabelle Serpentine Dance
  • Men Boxing
  • Sandow
  • Buffalo Dance
  • Annabelle Butterfly Dance

Filmography

2018
Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
1902
Rudge and Whitworth, Britain's Best Bicycle
1900
Four Warships in Rough Seas
1900
Warships
1899
King John
1899
The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton
1899
Amann, the Great Impersonator
1898
Southampton
1898
Pope Leo XIII Giving Blessing from Chair
1898
The Grand Canal, Venice
1898
Boys Bathing: Venice
1898
Pope Leo XIII Being Carried in Chair Through Upper Loggia, No. 101
1898
Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
1898
He and She
1898
Me and My Two Friends
1898
Water Polo at Worthing Baths, England
1898
Charge of the Carbineers
1898
The Vegetable Market in Venice
1898
Conway Castle
1897
Pelicans at the Zoo
1896
Sandow
1896
Rip Meeting the Dwarf
1896
Rip's Toast to Hudson
1896
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
1896
Awakening of Rip
1896
Rip's Toast
1896
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
1896
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
1896
Rip Passing Over the Mountain
1896
William McKinley at Canton, Ohio
1896
Rip Van Winkle
1895
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
1894
Fire Rescue Scene
1894
Band Drill
1894
Chinese Laundry Scene
1894
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
1894
Imperial Japanese Dance
1894
Annie Oakley
1894
Bucking Broncho
1894
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
1894
Hadj Cheriff
1894
Glenroy Bros., No. 2
1894
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
1894
Sioux Ghost Dance
1894
Buffalo Dance
1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1894
Caicedo (with Pole)
1894
The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
1894
Leonard-Cushing Fight
1894
Sandow: The Strong Man
1894
Carmencita
1894
Athlete with Wand
1894
Cock Fight, No. 2
1894
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
1894
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
1894
The Cock Fight
1893
The Barbershop
1893
Blacksmith Scene
1892
A Hand Shake
1892
Fencing
1891
Dickson Greeting
1891
Newark Athlete
1891
Men Boxing
1890
Monkeyshines, No. 1
1890
Monkeyshines, No. 3
1890
Monkeyshines, No. 2

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