William K.L. Dickson
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 3, 1860
Day of Death: September 28, 1935 (75 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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Director of Photography
Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag
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Brook Trout Fishing
Director of Photography
Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River
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Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith
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Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith
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Tram Journey through Southampton
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Four Warships in Rough Seas
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Warships at Sunset
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Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
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Dutch Fishing Fleet
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English Nell
Editor
English Nell
Producer
English Nell
1899
Actor Himself
General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton
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Amann, the Great Impersonator
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King John
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Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899
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Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere
Director of Photography
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
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Tapping a Blast Furnace
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Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899
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The Lane on Sunday Morning
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Launch of the 'Oceanic'
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Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp
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Naval Guns Firing at Colenso
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Flower Parade in Haarlem
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Fun on a Sand Hill
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Man Overboard!
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In a German Bath
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In the Friedrichstrasse
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From Monte Carlo to Monaco
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Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
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Upside Down Boxers
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Away Aloft
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London Fire Brigade, Alarm
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Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
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Tapping a Blast Furnace
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Launch of the 'Oceanic'
1898
Actor Man on left of picture
Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
Actor Himself
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
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Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
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Military Exercise - Aldershot
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Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa
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The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
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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
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The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
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Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
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The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
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Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1
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Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
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The Grand Canal, Venice
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The Boulevard of Scheveningen
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Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto
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Duel to the Death
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Duel to the Death
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His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
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Capuchin Monks in Vatican City
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Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway
Director of Photography
A Tug in a Heavy Sea
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Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1
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Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club
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Me and My Two Friends
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He and She
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Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
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Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
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Pelicans at the Zoo
Director of Photography
Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore
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Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse
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Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel
Director of Photography
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
Director of Photography
Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
Director of Photography
The Grand Canal, Venice
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Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
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Venice, harbour scene with gondolas
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Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
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Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
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Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
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Mills from the Zaanstreek
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From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton
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Dutch Fishing Boats
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A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
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Maidenhead Junction
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The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
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The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
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Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats
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Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot
1897
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Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris
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Crissie Sheridan
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Bath Scene
Director of Photography
Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House
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Has He Hit Me?
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Les Parisiennes
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Place de la Concorde
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Home Life of a Hungarian Family
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Changing Guard (Berlin)
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A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
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Firing the Maxim Gun
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Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
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French Military School Exercise
1896
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Sandow
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Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
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Rip Van Winkle
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Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
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Rip's Toast
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Annabelle in Flag Dance
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Hard Wash
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American Falls from Goat Island
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American Falls from Luna Island
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Serpentine Dances by Annabelle
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Awakening of Rip
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Dancing Darkies
Director of Photography
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
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View on Boulevard, New York City
Producer
Little Egypt
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A Watermelon Feast
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Tambourine Dance by Annabelle
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Sound Money Parade
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Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
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Rip Passing Over the Mountain
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Rip's Toast to Hudson
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Rip Meeting the Dwarf
1895
1894
Actor Self
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Producer
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Director
Carmencita
Producer
Caicedo (with Pole)
Producer
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Producer
The Barber Shop
Producer
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
Producer
Athlete with Wand
Producer
Cock Fight, No. 2
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Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Director
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Director
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
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The Cock Fight
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The Barber Shop
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Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
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Buffalo Dance
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Sioux Ghost Dance
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Annie Oakley
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The Boxing Cats
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Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
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Chinese Laundry Scene
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Imperial Japanese Dance
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Bucking Broncho
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Leonard-Cushing Fight
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Band Drill
Director
Hadj Cheriff
Director
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
Director
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
Director
Fire Rescue Scene
Musician
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Producer
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Director
Athlete with Wand
Director
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
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Rats and Terrier No. 2
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Rats and Terrier No. 3
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Rats and Weasel
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Buffalo Bill
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Cock Fight, No. 2
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The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”
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Annabelle Sun Dance
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Caicedo (with Pole)
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Trained Bears
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Chinese Opium Den
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Glenroy Bros., No. 2
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Dance
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A Bar Room Scene
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Ruth Dennis
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Boxing Match
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Fred Ott Holding a Bird
Producer
Japanese Dancers
Director
Highland Dance
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Indian War Council
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Mexican Knife Duel
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Rat Killing
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Lasso Thrower
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Unsuccessful Somersault
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Wrestling Match
Producer
Carmencita
Producer
The Boxing Cats
Producer
Glenroy Bros., No. 2
1893
1892
1891
Actor Himself
Dickson Greeting
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Dickson Greeting
Producer
Newark Athlete
Producer
Dickson Greeting
Producer
Men Boxing
Director
Newark Athlete
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Men Boxing
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Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
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Monkey and Another, Boxing
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Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
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Duncan Smoking
