William K.L. Dickson

Actor · Director · Crew· 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.

Filmography

80 credits across 3 departments.

Year	Title	Role	Type
1900	Brook Trout Fishing	Director	Film
1899	Fun on a Sand Hill	Director	Film
1899	Flower Parade in Haarlem	Director	Film
1899	King John	Director	Film
1899	Panoramic View of Windsor Castle	Director	Film
1899	In the Friedrichstrasse	Director	Film
1899	Upside Down Boxers	Director	Film
1898	Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel	Director	Film
1898	Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway	Director	Film
1898	Capuchin Monks in Vatican City	Director	Film
1898	Maidenhead Junction	Director	Film
1898	Duel to the Death	Director	Film
1898	A Blast at the Solvay Quarries	Director	Film
1898	Military Exercise - Aldershot	Director	Film
1898	The Tarantella, an Italian Dance	Director	Film
1898	Venice, harbour scene with gondolas	Director	Film
1898	Funeral Procession of the Misericordia	Director	Film
1897	Crissie Sheridan	Director	Film
1897	A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies	Director	Film
1897	French Military School Exercise	Director	Film
1897	Bath Scene	Director	Film
1897	Has He Hit Me?	Director	Film
1897	Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun	Director	Film
1897	Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris	Director	Film
1897	Les Parisiennes	Director	Film
1897	Changing Guard (Berlin)	Director	Film
1896	View on Boulevard, New York City	Director	Film
1896	Rip Van Winkle	Director	Film
1896	Sandow	Director	Film
1896	Awakening of Rip	Director	Film
1896	Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep	Director	Film
1896	Rip's Toast	Director	Film
1896	Rip Meeting the Dwarf	Director	Film
1896	Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow	Director	Film
1896	Rip Passing Over the Mountain	Director	Film
1896	Rip's Toast to Hudson	Director	Film
1896	Exit of Rip and the Dwarf	Director	Film
1896	American Falls from Goat Island	Director	Film
1896	American Falls from Luna Island	Director	Film
1896	Serpentine Dance by Annabelle	Director	Film
1895	Billy Edwards and the Unknown	Director	Film
1895	Danse serpentine (Annabelle)	Director	Film
1895	Robetta and Doretto, No. 1	Director	Film
1894	Dickson Experimental Sound Film	Self	Film
1894	Sandow: The Strong Man	Director	Film
1894	Caicedo (with Pole)	Director	Film
1894	Athlete with Wand	Director	Film
1894	Carmencita	Director	Film
1894	Sioux Ghost Dance	Director	Film
1894	Annabelle Butterfly Dance	Director	Film
1894	Buffalo Dance	Director	Film
1894	The Barber Shop	Director	Film
1894	Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)	Director	Film
1894	The Cock Fight	Director	Film
1894	Bucking Broncho	Director	Film
1894	Leonard-Cushing Fight	Director	Film
1894	Dickson Experimental Sound Film	Director	Film
1894	Annie Oakley	Director	Film
1894	Imperial Japanese Dance	Director	Film
1894	A Bar Room Scene	Director	Film
1894	Annabelle Sun Dance	Director	Film
1894	Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze	Director	Film
1894	Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph	Director	Film
1894	Chinese Laundry Scene	Director	Film
1894	Band Drill	Director	Film
1894	The Boxing Cats	Director	Film
1894	Hadj Cheriff	Director	Film
1894	Luis Martinetti, Contortionist	Director	Film
1894	Fire Rescue Scene	Director	Film
1894	The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”	Director	Film
1894	The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight	Director	Film
1893	Blacksmithing Scene	Director	Film
1892	A Hand Shake		Film
1892	Fencing	Director	Film
1892	A Hand Shake	Director	Film
1891	Dickson Greeting	Self	Film
1891	Newark Athlete	Director	Film
1891	Dickson Greeting	Director	Film
1891	Men Boxing	Director	Film
1890	Monkeyshines, No. 1	Director	Film

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