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William K.L. Dickson

Aug 3, 1860 - Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France

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 Credits

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie	1891	Dickson Greeting	Himself
Movie	1894	Dickson Experimental Sound Film	Self
Movie	1892	A Hand Shake
Movie	1893	Horse Shoeing	Himself
Movie	1899	General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton	Himself
Movie	1898	Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square	Man on left of picture
Movie	1898	Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii	Himself

Crew

Media
Movie	1890	Monkeyshines, No. 1	Director	Directing
Movie	1891	Dickson Greeting	Director	Directing
Movie	1890	Monkeyshines, No. 2	Director	Directing
Movie	1890	Monkeyshines, No. 3	Director	Directing
Movie	1893	Blacksmithing Scene	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze	Producer	Production
Movie	1894	Carmencita	Director	Directing
Movie	1890	Monkeyshines, No. 1	Producer	Production
Movie	1892	A Hand Shake	Producer	Production
Movie	1891	Dickson Greeting	Producer	Production
Movie	1891	Men Boxing	Producer	Production
Movie	1890	Monkeyshines, No. 2	Producer	Production
Movie	1891	Newark Athlete	Producer	Production
Movie	1892	Fencing	Producer	Production
Movie	1894	The Barber Shop	Producer	Production
Movie	1894	Athlete with Wand	Producer	Production
Movie	1894	Caicedo (with Pole)	Producer	Production
Movie	1894	Annabelle Butterfly Dance	Producer	Production
Movie	1894	Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope	Producer	Production
Movie	1893	Blacksmithing Scene	Producer	Production
Movie	1894	Cock Fight, No. 2	Producer	Production
Movie	1898	Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Dickson Experimental Sound Film	Director	Directing
Movie	1891	Newark Athlete	Director	Directing
Movie	1892	Fencing	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Annabelle Butterfly Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Amann, the Great Impersonator	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Sandow	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	The Cock Fight	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	The Barber Shop	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Buffalo Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Sioux Ghost Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Annie Oakley	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Rip Van Winkle	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Rip's Toast	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Hard Wash	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	American Falls from Luna Island	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	American Falls from Goat Island	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Annabelle in Flag Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Military Exercise - Aldershot	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	The Vatican Military Guard, Consisting of a Detachment of Noble Guards, Commanded by Count Pecci, Followed by a Palatine Guard of Honour, Swiss Guard, Gendarmes and Fire Brigade	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	The Boxing Cats	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Chinese Laundry Scene	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Imperial Japanese Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Leonard-Cushing Fight	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Band Drill	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Bucking Broncho	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Hadj Cheriff	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Crissie Sheridan	Director	Directing
Movie	1895	Billy Edwards and the Unknown	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Luis Martinetti, Contortionist	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Fire Rescue Scene	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Dickson Experimental Sound Film	Musician	Sound
Movie	1894	Dickson Experimental Sound Film	Producer	Production
Movie	1899	King John	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Athlete with Wand	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight	Director	Directing
Movie	1895	Robetta and Doretto, No. 1	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Serpentine Dances by Annabelle	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Rats and Terrier No. 2	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Rats and Terrier No. 3	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Rats and Weasel	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Awakening of Rip	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	The Grand Canal, Venice	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Dancing Darkies	Director	Directing
Movie	1895	A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Buffalo Bill	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Bath Scene	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	The Boulevard of Scheveningen	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Cock Fight, No. 2	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”	Director	Directing
Movie	1891	Men Boxing	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Annabelle Sun Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Caicedo (with Pole)	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Trained Bears	Director	Directing
Movie	1892	Man on Parallel Bars	Director	Directing
Movie	1893	Horse Shoeing	Director	Directing
Movie	1892	Wrestling	Director	Directing
Movie	1891	Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud	Director	Directing
Movie	1891	Monkey and Another, Boxing	Director	Directing
Movie	1891	Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop	Director	Directing
Movie	1891	Duncan Smoking	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Glenroy Bros., No. 2	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Chinese Opium Den	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	Duel to the Death	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Duel to the Death	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	View on Boulevard, New York City	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Little Egypt	Producer	Production
Movie	1898	His Holiness Pope Leo XIII	Director	Directing
Movie	1895	New Blacksmith Shop	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Capuchin Monks in Vatican City	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1899	Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	A Tug in a Heavy Sea	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1892	A Hand Shake	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	A Watermelon Feast	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Tambourine Dance by Annabelle	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	A Bar Room Scene	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Ruth Dennis	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Boxing Match	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Fred Ott Holding a Bird	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Japanese Dancers	Producer	Production
Movie	1900	Brook Trout Fishing	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Fatima	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Sound Money Parade	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Indian War Council	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Wrestling Match	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Rat Killing	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Mexican Knife Duel	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Highland Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Lasso Thrower	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Rip's Toast to Hudson	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Rip Meeting the Dwarf	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Exit of Rip and the Dwarf	Director	Directing
Movie	1896	Rip Passing Over the Mountain	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	Carmencita	Producer	Production
Movie	1898	Me and My Two Friends	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1897	Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1899	Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	He and She	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Pelicans at the Zoo	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1899	Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1899	The Lane on Sunday Morning	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1899	Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1899	Launch of the 'Oceanic'	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1899	Tapping a Blast Furnace	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1900	Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1900	Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1899	Naval Guns Firing at Colenso	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1900	Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1898	The Grand Canal, Venice	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1895	Billy Edwards and the Unknown	Producer	Production
Movie	1901	Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram	Director of Photography	Camera
Movie	1901	Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram	Director	Directing
Movie	1894	The Boxing Cats	Producer	Production
Movie	1894	Glenroy Bros., No. 2	Producer	Production
Movie	1897	Has He Hit Me?	Director	Directing
Movie	1895	James Grundy, Buck and Wing	Director	Directing
Movie	2007	Butterfly Dances	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Les Parisiennes	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Place de la Concorde	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Venice, harbour scene with gondolas	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Fun on a Sand Hill	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	Four Warships in Rough Seas	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Funeral Procession of the Misericordia	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	Warships at Sunset	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Home Life of a Hungarian Family	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	Tram Journey through Southampton	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Flower Parade in Haarlem	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Changing Guard (Berlin)	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	In a German Bath	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Man Overboard!	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	London Fire Brigade, Alarm	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	In the Friedrichstrasse	Director	Directing
Movie	1901	Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	From Monte Carlo to Monaco	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Mills from the Zaanstreek	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Dutch Fishing Boats	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	Dutch Fishing Fleet	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Away Aloft	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Maidenhead Junction	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Upside Down Boxers	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	Firing the Maxim Gun	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam	Director	Directing
Movie	1897	French Military School Exercise	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	A Blast at the Solvay Quarries	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Panoramic View of Windsor Castle	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	The Tarantella, an Italian Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Tapping a Blast Furnace	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	The Bridge of Sighs, Venice	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats	Director	Directing
Movie	1895	Annabelle Serpentine Dance	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	Launch of the 'Oceanic'	Director	Directing
Movie	1898	Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	English Nell	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	English Nell	Editor	Editing
Movie	1900	English Nell	Producer	Production
Movie	1902	An Obstinate Cork	Director	Directing
Movie	1902	Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle	Director	Directing
Movie	1997	Annabelle Dances and Dances	Director	Directing
Movie	1900	Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing	Director	Directing
Movie	1908	Ten Pickaninnies	Director	Directing
Movie	1899	The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton	Director	Directing
Movie	1891	Newark athlete. [No. 2]	Director	Directing