William K.L. Dickson

William K.L. Dickson

Birthday: 1860-08-03
Deathday: 1935-09-28
Place of birth: Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
Also know as: William Kennedy-Laurie 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.

Filmography

Dickson Greeting

1891

As Himself

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

1894

As Self

A Hand Shake

1892

As

Horse Shoeing

1893

As Himself

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii

1898

As Himself

Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square

1898

As Man on left of picture

Production

Monkeyshines, No. 1

1890

As Director

Dickson Greeting

1891

As Director

Monkeyshines, No. 2

1890

As Director

Monkeyshines, No. 3

1890

As Director

Men Boxing

1891

As Director

Blacksmithing Scene

1893

As Director

Carmencita

1894

As Director

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

1894

As Director

Newark Athlete

1891

As Director

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

1894

As Director

Fencing

1892

As Director

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

1894

As Director

Sandow

1896

As Director

Sioux Ghost Dance

1894

As Director

Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)

1894

As Director

The Barber Shop

1893

As Director

The Cock Fight

1894

As Director

Annie Oakley

1894

As Director

Rip Van Winkle

1896

As Director

Buffalo Dance

1894

As Director

Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow

1896

As Director

Rip's Toast

1896

As Director

Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep

1896

As Director

The Boxing Cats

1894

As Director

Bucking Broncho

1894

As Director

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

1894

As Director

Hadj Cheriff

1894

As Director

Band Drill

1894

As Director

Imperial Japanese Dance

1894

As Director

Chinese Laundry Scene

1894

As Director

Leonard-Cushing Fight

1894

As Director

The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight

1894

As Director

Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

1895

As Director

Serpentine Dances by Annabelle

1896

As Director

Crissie Sheridan

1897

As Director

Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope

1894

As Director

King John

1899

As Director

Athlete with Wand

1894

As Director

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

1894

As Director

Billy Edwards and the Unknown

1895

As Director

Fire Rescue Scene

1894

As Director

Awakening of Rip

1896

As Director

Dancing Darkies

1896

As Director

Caicedo (with Pole)

1894

As Director

The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”

1894

As Director

A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby

1895

As Director

Buffalo Bill

1894

As Director

Cock Fight, No. 2

1894

As Director

The Boulevard of Scheveningen

1898

As Director

Bath Scene

1897

As Director

Annabelle Sun Dance

1894

As Director

Horse Shoeing

1893

As Director

Man on Parallel Bars

1892

As Director

Monkey and Another, Boxing

1891

As Director

Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud

1891

As Director

Wrestling

1892

As Director

Duncan Smoking

1891

As Director

Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop

1891

As Director

Glenroy Bros., No. 2

1894

As Director

Chinese Opium Den

1894

As Director

Dance

1894

As Director

McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio

1896

As Director of Photography

Little Egypt

1896

As Producer

New Blacksmith Shop

1895

As Director

Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway

1898

As Director

A Hand Shake

1892

As Director

Wrestling Match

1894

As Director

Lasso Thrower

1894

As Director

Unsuccessful Somersault

1894

As Director

Rat Killing

1894

As Director

Indian War Council

1894

As Director

Mexican Knife Duel

1894

As Director

Highland Dance

1894

As Director

Rip Meeting the Dwarf

1896

As Director

Rip Passing Over the Mountain

1896

As Director

Rip's Toast to Hudson

1896

As Director

Exit of Rip and the Dwarf

1896

As Director

Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square

1898

As Director

Carmencita

1894

As Producer

Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House

1897

As Director of Photography

He and She

1898

As Director

Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere

1899

As Director of Photography

Me and My Two Friends

1898

As Director of Photography

The American Biograph in Circus O. Carré

1899

As Director of Photography

Launch of the 'Oceanic'

1899

As Director of Photography

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore

1898

As Director of Photography

Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River

1900

As Director of Photography

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse

1898

As Director of Photography

Pelicans at the Zoo

1898

As Director of Photography

Tapping a Blast Furnace

1899

As Director of Photography

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

1899

As Director of Photography

Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp

1899

As Director of Photography

Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith

1900

As Director of Photography

Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith

1900

As Director of Photography

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii

1898

As Director of Photography

The Lane on Sunday Morning

1899

As Director of Photography

Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel

1898

As Director

Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899

1899

As Director of Photography

Naval Guns Firing at Colenso

1899

As Director of Photography

Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice

1898

As Director of Photography

The Grand Canal, Venice

1898

As Director of Photography

Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104

1898

As Director

Billy Edwards and the Unknown

1895

As Producer

Has He Hit Me?

1897

As Director

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram

1901

As Director

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram

1901

As Director of Photography

The Boxing Cats

1894

As Producer

Glenroy Bros., No. 2

1894

As Producer

James Grundy, Buck and Wing

1895

As Director

Butterfly Dances

2007

As Director

Les Parisiennes

1897

As Director

Place de la Concorde

1897

As Director

Venice, harbour scene with gondolas

1898

As Director

Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)

1898

As Director

Procession of Capuchin Monks

1898

As Director

Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice

1898

As Director

Flower Parade in Haarlem

1899

As Director

Warships at Sunset

1900

As Director

Fun on a Sand Hill

1899

As Director

Home Life of a Hungarian Family

1897

As Director

Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed

1898

As Director

Funeral Procession of the Misericordia

1898

As Director

Four Warships in Rough Seas

1900

As Director

Tram Journey through Southampton

1900

As Director

From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton

1898

As Director

Away Aloft

1899

As Director

Maidenhead Junction

1898

As Director

From Monte Carlo to Monaco

1899

As Director

Man Overboard!

1899

As Director

In the Friedrichstrasse

1899

As Director

Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun

1897

As Director

Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.

1901

As Director

In a German Bath

1899

As Director

Firing the Maxim Gun

1897

As Director

Tapping a Blast Furnace

1899

As Director

The Tarantella, an Italian Dance

1898

As Director

Dutch Fishing Fleet

1900

As Director

Dutch Fishing Boats

1898

As Director

A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies

1897

As Director

Mills from the Zaanstreek

1898

As Director

Panoramic View of Windsor Castle

1899

As Director

French Military School Exercise

1897

As Director

A Blast at the Solvay Quarries

1898

As Director

Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam

1899

As Director

The Bridge of Sighs, Venice

1898

As Director

London Fire Brigade, Alarm

1899

As Director

Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns

1900

As Director

Changing Guard (Berlin)

1897

As Director

Upside Down Boxers

1898

As Director

Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats

1898

As Director

Launch of the 'Oceanic'

1899

As Director

Annabelle Serpentine Dance

1895

As Director

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

1894

As Producer

Monkeyshines, No. 1

1890

As Producer

Monkeyshines, No. 2

1890

As Producer

Men Boxing

1891

As Producer

Newark Athlete

1891

As Producer

Dickson Greeting

1891

As Producer

Fencing

1892

As Producer

A Hand Shake

1892

As Producer

Blacksmithing Scene

1893

As Producer

The Barber Shop

1893

As Producer

Athlete with Wand

1894

As Producer

Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope

1894

As Producer

Caicedo (with Pole)

1894

As Producer

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

1894

As Producer

Cock Fight, No. 2

1894

As Producer

Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage

1898

As Director

The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902)

2020

As Director

The Grand Canal, Venice

1898

As Director

The Unwilling Draught Dog

1898

As Director

Trained Bears

1894

As Director

Amann, the Great Impersonator

1899

As Director

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

1894

As Producer

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

1894

As Musician

Rats and Terrier No. 2

1894

As Director

Rats and Terrier No. 3

1894

As Director

Rats and Weasel

1894

As Director

Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto

1898

As Director

Duel to the Death

1898

As Director

Duel to the Death

1898

As Director

Tambourine Dance by Annabelle

1896

As Director

Ruth Dennis

1894

As Director

A Bar Room Scene

1894

As Director

Boxing Match

1894

As Director

Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1

1898

As Director

Annabelle in Flag Dance

1896

As Director

Hard Wash

1896

As Director

American Falls from Luna Island

1896

As Director

American Falls from Goat Island

1896

As Director

Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris

1897

As Director

Military Exercise - Aldershot

1898

As Director

Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa

1898

As Director

Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1

1898

As Director

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

1898

As Director

Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

1898

As Director

Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)

1898

As Director

The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

1898

As Director

The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

1898

As Director

The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

1898

As Director

View on Boulevard, New York City

1896

As Director

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII

1898

As Director

Capuchin Monks in Vatican City

1898

As Director

Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag

1900

As Director of Photography

Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899

1899

As Director of Photography

A Tug in a Heavy Sea

1898

As Director of Photography