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William K.L. Dickson

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
7

Gender
Male

Birthday
August 3, 1860 (165 years old)

Place of Birth
Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France

William K.L. Dickson

Biography

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

Directing

2007Butterfly Dances...Director
1997Annabelle Dances and Dances...Director
1908Ten Pickaninnies...Director
1907Mr. Hurry-up...Director
1902Nabbed by the Nipper...Director
1902Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle...Director
1902An Obstinate Cork...Director
1901Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram...Director
1901Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc....Director
1900English Nell...Director
1900Brook Trout Fishing...Director
1900Four Warships in Rough Seas...Director
1900Tram Journey through Southampton...Director
1900Dutch Fishing Fleet...Director
1900Warships at Sunset...Director
1900Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns...Director
1899King John...Director
1899Man Overboard!...Director
1899Flower Parade in Haarlem...Director
1899The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton...Director
1899Fun on a Sand Hill...Director
1899From Monte Carlo to Monaco...Director
1899Away Aloft...Director
1899London Fire Brigade, Alarm...Director
1899Upside Down Boxers...Director
1899Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam...Director
1899In the Friedrichstrasse...Director
1899In a German Bath...Director
1899Amann, the Great Impersonator...Director
1899Tapping a Blast Furnace...Director
1899Launch of the 'Oceanic'...Director
1899Panoramic View of Windsor Castle...Director
1898Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel...Director
1898Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104...Director
1898From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton...Director
1898Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1...Director
1898Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto...Director
1898Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage...Director
1898Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)...Director
1898Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)...Director
1898Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)...Director
1898The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)...Director
1898The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)...Director
1898The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)...Director
1898Duel to the Death...Director
1898He and She...Director
1898His Holiness Pope Leo XIII...Director
1898Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa...Director
1898Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1...Director
1898The 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
1898Capuchin Monks in Vatican City...Director
1898Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club...Director
1898Military Exercise - Aldershot...Director
1898The Boulevard of Scheveningen...Director
1898Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii...Director
1898Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats...Director
1898Funeral Procession of the Misericordia...Director
1898Dutch Fishing Boats...Director
1898Venice, harbour scene with gondolas...Director
1898The Tarantella, an Italian Dance...Director
1898Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway...Director
1898Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square...Director
1898Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed...Director
1898Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice...Director
1898The Grand Canal, Venice...Director
1898Mills from the Zaanstreek...Director
1898The Bridge of Sighs, Venice...Director
1898Maidenhead Junction...Director
1898A Blast at the Solvay Quarries...Director
1898Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot...Director
1898Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing...Director
1897Place de la Concorde...Director
1897Crissie Sheridan...Director
1897Fatima...Director
1897Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris...Director
1897Has He Hit Me?...Director
1897Les Parisiennes...Director
1897Bath Scene...Director
1897Changing Guard (Berlin)...Director
1897Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun...Director
1897Firing the Maxim Gun...Director
1897French Military School Exercise...Director
1897A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies...Director
1897Home Life of a Hungarian Family...Director
1896Sound Money Parade...Director
1896American Falls from Luna Island...Director
1896American Falls from Goat Island...Director
1896Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow...Director
1896Rip Passing Over the Mountain...Director
1896Rip's Toast to Hudson...Director
1896Rip Meeting the Dwarf...Director
1896Rip's Toast...Director
1896Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep...Director
1896Sandow...Director
1896Exit of Rip and the Dwarf...Director
1896Awakening of Rip...Director
1896Serpentine Dance by Annabelle...Director
1896Tambourine Dance by Annabelle...Director
1896View on Boulevard, New York City...Director
1896Rip Van Winkle...Director
1896Hard Wash...Director
1896Dancing Darkies...Director
1896A Watermelon Feast...Director
1896Annabelle in Flag Dance...Director
1895New Blacksmith Shop...Director
1895Robetta and Doretto, No. 1...Director
1895Danse serpentine (Annabelle)...Director
1895Billy Edwards and the Unknown...Director
1895James Grundy, Buck and Wing...Director
1895A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby...Director
1894Dance...Director
1894Indian War Council...Director
1894Fire Rescue Scene...Director
1894Band Drill...Director
1894Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph...Director
1894Imperial Japanese Dance...Director
1894Annie Oakley...Director
1894Chinese Opium Den...Director
1894Bucking Broncho...Director
1894Mexican Knife Duel...Director
1894Lasso Thrower...Director
1894Hadj Cheriff...Director
1894Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)...Director
1894The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight...Director
1894Sioux Ghost Dance...Director
1894Buffalo Dance...Director
1894Rats and Terrier No. 2...Director
1894Rats and Terrier No. 3...Director
1894Rats and Weasel...Director
1894Boxing Match...Director
1894Dickson Experimental Sound Film...Director
1894Caicedo (with Pole)...Director
1894The Boxing Cats...Director
1894Buffalo Bill...Director
1894Leonard-Cushing Fight...Director
1894Sandow: The Strong Man...Director
1894The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”...Director
1894Rat Killing...Director
1894Trained Bears...Director
1894A Bar Room Scene...Director
1894Chinese Laundry Scene...Director
1894Wrestling Match...Director
1894Highland Dance...Director
1894Carmencita...Director
1894Athlete with Wand...Director
1894Cock Fight, No. 2...Director
1894Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze...Director
1894Glenroy Bros., No. 2...Director
1894The Cock Fight...Director
1894Luis Martinetti, Contortionist...Director
1894Ruth Dennis...Director
1894Fred Ott Holding a Bird...Director
1894Mlle. Capitaine...Director
1894The Barber Shop...Director
1894Annabelle Sun Dance...Director
1894Annabelle Butterfly Dance...Director
1893Blacksmithing Scene...Director
1893Horse Shoeing...Director
1892Man on Parallel Bars...Director
1892Wrestling...Director
1892Fencing...Director
1892A Hand Shake...Director
1891Dickson Greeting...Director
1891Newark athlete. [No. 2]...Director
1891Newark Athlete...Director
1891Men Boxing...Director
1891Monkey and Another, Boxing...Director
1891Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud...Director
1891Duncan Smoking...Director
1891Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop...Director
1890Monkeyshines, No. 3...Director
1890Monkeyshines, No. 2...Director
1890Monkeyshines, No. 1...Director

Camera

1901Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram...Director of Photography
1900Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River...Director of Photography
1900Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag...Director of Photography
1900Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith...Director of Photography
1900Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith...Director of Photography
1899Naval Guns Firing at Colenso...Director of Photography
1899Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere...Director of Photography
1899Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race...Director of Photography
1899Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899...Director of Photography
1899Tapping a Blast Furnace...Director of Photography
1899Launch of the 'Oceanic'...Director of Photography
1899The Lane on Sunday Morning...Director of Photography
1899Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899...Director of Photography
1899Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp...Director of Photography
1898Me and My Two Friends...Director of Photography
1898Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse...Director of Photography
1898A Tug in a Heavy Sea...Director of Photography
1898Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii...Director of Photography
1898Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore...Director of Photography
1898Pelicans at the Zoo...Director of Photography
1898Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice...Director of Photography
1898The Grand Canal, Venice...Director of Photography
1897Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House...Director of Photography
1896Serpentine Dance by Annabelle...Director of Photography
1896McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio...Director of Photography

Editing

1900English Nell...Editor

Production

1900English Nell...Producer
1896Serpentine Dance by Annabelle...Executive Producer
1896Little Egypt...Producer
1895Billy Edwards and the Unknown...Producer
1894Dickson Experimental Sound Film...Producer
1894Caicedo (with Pole)...Producer
1894The Boxing Cats...Producer
1894Sandow: The Strong Man...Producer
1894Carmencita...Producer
1894Athlete with Wand...Producer
1894Cock Fight, No. 2...Producer
1894Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze...Producer
1894Glenroy Bros., No. 2...Producer
1894Japanese Dancers...Producer
1894Mlle. Capitaine...Producer
1894The Barber Shop...Producer
1894Annabelle Butterfly Dance...Producer
1893Blacksmithing Scene...Producer
1892Fencing...Producer
1892A Hand Shake...Producer
1891Dickson Greeting...Producer
1891Newark Athlete...Producer
1891Men Boxing...Producer
1890Monkeyshines, No. 3...Producer
1890Monkeyshines, No. 2...Producer
1890Monkeyshines, No. 1...Producer

Sound

1894Dickson Experimental Sound Film...Musician

Acting

1899General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southamptonas Self
1898Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeiias Self
1898Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Squareas Man on left of picture
1894Dickson Experimental Sound Filmas Self
1893Horse Shoeingas Self
1892A Hand Shakeas
1891Dickson Greetingas Self