William K.L. Dickson
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.
- Known ForDirecting
- Born3 August 1860 (age 165)
- Place of BirthChateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
William K.L. Dickson
- Known ForDirecting
- Born3 August 1860 (age 165)
- Place of BirthChateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
KNOWN FOR
PHOTOS
CREDITS
The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902)
6.2
2020
Butterfly Dances
-
2007
Annabelle Dances and Dances
4.0
1997
Ten Pickaninnies
2.0
1908
An Obstinate Cork
4.0
1902
Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle
5.0
1902
Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
4.333
1901
Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
6.0
1901
Brook Trout Fishing
4.5
1900
Four Warships in Rough Seas
7.5
1900
Warships at Sunset
6.3
1900
Tram Journey through Southampton
6.5
1900
Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
4.5
1900
Dutch Fishing Fleet
6.0
1900
English Nell
-
1900
Amann, the Great Impersonator
-
1899
King John
4.86
1899
Fun on a Sand Hill
8.0
1899
Flower Parade in Haarlem
6.0
1899
In a German Bath
6.0
1899
Man Overboard!
6.0
1899
London Fire Brigade, Alarm
8.0
1899
In the Friedrichstrasse
6.0
1899
From Monte Carlo to Monaco
7.0
1899
Away Aloft
4.0
1899
Upside Down Boxers
6.333
1899
Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
4.0
1899
Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
4.0
1899
Tapping a Blast Furnace
4.0
1899
Launch of the 'Oceanic'
8.0
1899
The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton
1.0
1899
General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton
3.3
1899
Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
4.0
1898
Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1
-
1898
Military Exercise - Aldershot
-
1898
The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
-
1898
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
Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa
-
1898
Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
-
1898
Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
-
1898
The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
-
1898
The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
-
1898
The Grand Canal, Venice
3.7
1898
The Boulevard of Scheveningen
4.3
1898
Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto
2.0
1898
Duel to the Death
7.0
1898
Duel to the Death
2.3
1898
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
5.0
1898
Capuchin Monks in Vatican City
6.0
1898
Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway
-
1898
Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1
-
1898
Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club
5.0
1898
He and She
1.0
1898
Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
4.0
1898
Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
4.8
1898
Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel
3.0
1898
Venice, harbour scene with gondolas
6.0
1898
Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
2.0
1898
Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
7.0
1898
Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
3.5
1898
Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
4.5
1898
From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton
6.0
1898
Mills from the Zaanstreek
7.0
1898
Dutch Fishing Boats
4.0
1898
Maidenhead Junction
6.0
1898
A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
4.0
1898
The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
4.0
1898
The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
4.0
1898
Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats
6.333
1898
Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot
1.0
1898
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
3.333
1898
Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris
-
1897
Crissie Sheridan
4.577
1897
Bath Scene
4.3
1897
Has He Hit Me?
1.5
1897
Les Parisiennes
3.8
1897
Place de la Concorde
6.0
1897
Home Life of a Hungarian Family
4.5
1897
Changing Guard (Berlin)
6.0
1897
A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
4.0
1897
Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
5.5
1897
Firing the Maxim Gun
5.0
1897
French Military School Exercise
6.0
1897
Sandow
5.1
1896
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
4.318
1896
Rip Van Winkle
4.184
1896
Rip's Toast
4.234
1896
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
4.355
1896
Hard Wash
1.0
1896
American Falls from Luna Island
-
1896
American Falls from Goat Island
-
1896
Annabelle in Flag Dance
1.0
1896
Serpentine Dances by Annabelle
5.3
1896
Awakening of Rip
4.216
1896
Dancing Darkies
4.833
1896
View on Boulevard, New York City
4.0
1896
Little Egypt
2.3
1896
A Watermelon Feast
3.5
1896
Tambourine Dance by Annabelle
-
1896
Sound Money Parade
-
1896
Rip's Toast to Hudson
4.433
1896
Rip Meeting the Dwarf
4.344
1896
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
4.226
1896
Rip Passing Over the Mountain
4.306
1896
Billy Edwards and the Unknown
3.6
1895
Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
1.4
1895
A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
2.5
1895
New Blacksmith Shop
3.7
1895
James Grundy, Buck and Wing
1.5
1895
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
5.9
1895
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
4.842
1894
Carmencita
5.2
1894
The Barber Shop
4.923
1894
Athlete with Wand
3.8
1894
Caicedo (with Pole)
6.0
1894
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
5.4
1894
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
4.9
1894
Cock Fight, No. 2
3.5
1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
6.127
1894
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
4.788
1894
The Cock Fight
3.781
1894
Buffalo Dance
4.6
1894
Sioux Ghost Dance
4.5
1894
Annie Oakley
5.905
1894
The Boxing Cats
5.8
1894
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
4.9
1894
Chinese Laundry Scene
5.0
1894
Imperial Japanese Dance
4.26
1894
Leonard-Cushing Fight
5.146
1894
Band Drill
3.4
1894
Bucking Broncho
4.2
1894
Hadj Cheriff
4.289
1894
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
5.0
1894
Fire Rescue Scene
5.136
1894
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
4.5
1894
Rats and Terrier No. 2
1.0
1894
Rats and Terrier No. 3
1.0
1894
Rats and Weasel
1.0
1894
Buffalo Bill
1.7
1894
The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”
4.0
1894
Annabelle Sun Dance
4.2
1894
Trained Bears
1.5
1894
Glenroy Bros., No. 2
4.7
1894
Chinese Opium Den
3.1
1894
Dance
3.0
1894
A Bar Room Scene
1.0
1894
Ruth Dennis
2.0
1894
Boxing Match
2.0
1894
Fred Ott Holding a Bird
-
1894
Japanese Dancers
4.0
1894
Indian War Council
1.833
1894
Wrestling Match
2.0
1894
Unsuccessful Somersault
2.4
1894
Rat Killing
1.3
1894
Mexican Knife Duel
1.3
1894
Highland Dance
1.2
1894
Lasso Thrower
1.3
1894
Blacksmithing Scene
5.5
1893
Horse Shoeing
2.7
1893
A Hand Shake
3.5
1892
Fencing
3.4
1892
Man on Parallel Bars
2.6
1892
Wrestling
2.9
1892
Dickson Greeting
4.9
1891
Men Boxing
4.1
1891
Newark Athlete
4.426
1891
Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
2.7
1891
Monkey and Another, Boxing
3.3
1891
Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
2.0
1891
Duncan Smoking
2.8
1891
Monkeyshines, No. 1
4.9
1890
Monkeyshines, No. 2
4.4
1890
Monkeyshines, No. 3
3.1