William K.L. Dickson

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1860-08-03 (75 years old)

Deathday

1935-09-28

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.

Production

1890

1891

Dickson Greeting

as Director

1890

1890

1893

1894

Carmencita

as Director

1890

1890

1891

Men Boxing

as Producer

1891

Newark Athlete

as Producer

1891

Dickson Greeting

as Producer

1892

Fencing

as Producer

1892

A Hand Shake

as Producer

1893

1894

The Barber Shop

as Producer

1894

1894

1894

1891

Newark Athlete

as Director

1892

Fencing

as Director

1896

Sandow

as Director

1894

The Cock Fight

as Director

1894

The Barber Shop

as Director

1894

Buffalo Dance

as Director

1894

1894

Annie Oakley

as Director

1896

Rip Van Winkle

as Director

1896

Rip's Toast

as Director

1896

Hard Wash

as Director

1894

The Boxing Cats

as Director

1894

1894

Bucking Broncho

as Director

1894

1894

Band Drill

as Director

1894

Hadj Cheriff

as Director

1897

Crissie Sheridan

as Director

1894

1899

King John

as Director

1894

1894

1894

1894

Rats and Weasel

as Director

1896

Awakening of Rip

as Director

1896

Dancing Darkies

as Director

1894

Buffalo Bill

as Director

1897

Bath Scene

as Director

1894

1891

Men Boxing

as Director

1894

1894

1894

Trained Bears

as Director

1892

1893

Horse Shoeing

as Director

1892

Wrestling

as Director

1891

Duncan Smoking

as Director

1894

1894

1894

Dance

as Director

1896

McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio

as Director of Photography

1898

1898

1896

Little Egypt

as Producer

1895

1900

Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag

as Director of Photography

1898

A Tug in a Heavy Sea

as Director of Photography

1892

A Hand Shake

as Director

1896

1894

Ruth Dennis

as Director

1894

A Bar Room Scene

as Director

1894

Boxing Match

as Director

1894

Japanese Dancers

as Producer

1900

1897

Fatima

as Director

1896

1894

Wrestling Match

as Director

1894

Highland Dance

as Director

1894

Rat Killing

as Director

1894

1894

1894

Lasso Thrower

as Director

1896

1896

1894

Carmencita

as Producer

1898

He and She

as Director

1898

Me and My Two Friends

as Director of Photography

1899

Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere

as Director of Photography

1898

1898

Pelicans at the Zoo

as Director of Photography

1899

Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899

as Director of Photography

1899

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

as Director of Photography

1899

Tapping a Blast Furnace

as Director of Photography

1899

Launch of the 'Oceanic'

as Director of Photography

1899

The Lane on Sunday Morning

as Director of Photography

1899

1899

Naval Guns Firing at Colenso

as Director of Photography

1900

Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith

as Director of Photography

1898

The Grand Canal, Venice

as Director of Photography

1901

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram

as Director of Photography

1894

The Boxing Cats

as Producer

1894

1897

Has He Hit Me?

as Director

2007

Butterfly Dances

as Director

1897

Les Parisiennes

as Director

1897

1899

1900

1899

In a German Bath

as Director

1898

1900

1899

Man Overboard!

as Director

1899

Away Aloft

as Director

1898

1897

1899

1900

English Nell

as Director

1900

English Nell

as Editor

1900

English Nell

as Producer

1902

1908

Ten Pickaninnies

as Director

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