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

Director
Brook Trout Fishing

Director of Photography
Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River

Director of Photography
Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith

Director of Photography
Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith

Director
Warships at Sunset

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Four Warships in Rough Seas

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Tram Journey through Southampton

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Dutch Fishing Fleet

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Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
Director
English Nell
Editor
English Nell
Producer
English Nell
1899

Actor Himself
General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton

Director
Amann, the Great Impersonator
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King John
Director of Photography
Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899
Director of Photography
Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere

Director of Photography
Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899

Director of Photography
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Director of Photography
Tapping a Blast Furnace

Director of Photography
Launch of the 'Oceanic'

Director of Photography
The Lane on Sunday Morning

Director of Photography
Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp

Director of Photography
Naval Guns Firing at Colenso

Director
Fun on a Sand Hill

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Flower Parade in Haarlem

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In a German Bath

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From Monte Carlo to Monaco

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Man Overboard!

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Away Aloft

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In the Friedrichstrasse

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London Fire Brigade, Alarm

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Panoramic View of Windsor Castle

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Upside Down Boxers

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Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam

Director
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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Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1
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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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Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

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

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

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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 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
Director
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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He and She

Director of Photography
Me and My Two Friends

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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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Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore

Director of Photography
Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse

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Pelicans at the Zoo

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

Director of Photography
Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice

Director of Photography
The Grand Canal, Venice

Director of Photography
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii

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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

Director
Funeral Procession of the Misericordia

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Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice

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Dutch Fishing Boats

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

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Mills from the Zaanstreek

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Maidenhead Junction

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A Blast at the Solvay Quarries

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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
Director
Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris
Director
Crissie Sheridan

Director
Bath Scene

Director of Photography
Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House

Director
Has He Hit Me?

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Les Parisiennes

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Place de la Concorde

Director
Home Life of a Hungarian Family

Director
Changing Guard (Berlin)

Director
Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun

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Firing the Maxim Gun

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French Military School Exercise

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A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
1896

Director
Sandow

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Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow

Director
Rip Van Winkle

Director
Rip's Toast

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Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep

Director
Annabelle in Flag Dance

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Hard Wash

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American Falls from Luna Island

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American Falls from Goat 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

Director
A Watermelon Feast
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Tambourine Dance by Annabelle

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Sound Money Parade

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Rip Passing Over the Mountain
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Rip's Toast to Hudson

Director
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf

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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
The Barber Shop

Producer
Athlete with Wand

Producer
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope

Producer
Caicedo (with Pole)

Producer
Annabelle Butterfly Dance

Producer
Cock Fight, No. 2

Director
Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Director
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

Director
Annabelle Butterfly Dance

Director
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
Director
The Cock Fight

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The Barber Shop

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Buffalo Dance

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Sioux Ghost Dance

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Annie Oakley

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Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

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The Boxing Cats

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Imperial Japanese Dance

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Chinese Laundry Scene

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Bucking Broncho
Director
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

Producer
Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Musician
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
Director
Ruth Dennis

Director
A Bar Room Scene
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Boxing Match
Director
Fred Ott Holding a Bird

Producer
Japanese Dancers

Director
Wrestling Match

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Unsuccessful Somersault
Director
Highland Dance

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Rat Killing
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Indian War Council
Director
Mexican Knife Duel
Director
Lasso Thrower

Producer
Carmencita

Producer
The Boxing Cats

Producer
Glenroy Bros., No. 2
1893
1892
1891

Actor Himself
Dickson Greeting

Director
Dickson Greeting

Producer
Men Boxing

Producer
Newark Athlete

Producer
Dickson Greeting

Director
Newark Athlete

Director
Men Boxing
Director
Monkey and Another, Boxing
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Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
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Duncan Smoking
Director
Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop