William K.L. Dickson

Known for Directing

Details

Birthday: August 03, 1860

Deathday: September 28, 1935

Place of birth: Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France

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.

Actor

1899

General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton

1898

Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square

1898

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii

1894

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

1893

Horse Shoeing

1892

A Hand Shake

1891

Dickson Greeting

Director

2007

Butterfly Dances

1997

Annabelle Dances and Dances

1908

Ten Pickaninnies

1907

Mr. Hurry-up

1902

An Obstinate Cork

1902

Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle

1902

Nabbed by the Nipper

1901

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram

1901

Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.

1900

Brook Trout Fishing

1900

Tram Journey through Southampton

1900

Four Warships in Rough Seas

1900

Warships at Sunset

1900

Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns

1900

Dutch Fishing Fleet

1900

English Nell

1899

Amann, the Great Impersonator

1899

King John

1899

Flower Parade in Haarlem

1899

Fun on a Sand Hill

1899

Man Overboard!

1899

In a German Bath

1899

In the Friedrichstrasse

1899

From Monte Carlo to Monaco

1899

Panoramic View of Windsor Castle

1899

Upside Down Boxers

1899

Away Aloft

1899

London Fire Brigade, Alarm

1899

Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam

1899

Tapping a Blast Furnace

1899

Launch of the 'Oceanic'

1899

The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton

1898

Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage

1898

Military Exercise - Aldershot

1898

Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa

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

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

1898

Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

1898

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

1898

Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1

1898

Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)

1898

The Grand Canal, Venice

1898

The Boulevard of Scheveningen

1898

Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto

1898

Duel to the Death

1898

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII

1898

Capuchin Monks in Vatican City

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

1898

He and She

1898

Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square

1898

Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104

1898

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

1898

Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)

1898

Venice, harbour scene with gondolas

1898

Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed

1898

Funeral Procession of the Misericordia

1898

Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice

1898

Mills from the Zaanstreek

1898

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

1898

Dutch Fishing Boats

1898

A Blast at the Solvay Quarries

1898

Maidenhead Junction

1898

The Tarantella, an Italian Dance

1898

The Bridge of Sighs, Venice

1898

Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats

1898

Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot

1898

Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing

1898

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii

1897

Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris

1897

Crissie Sheridan

1897

Bath Scene

1897

Fatima

1897

Has He Hit Me?

1897

Les Parisiennes

1897

Place de la Concorde

1897

Home Life of a Hungarian Family

1897

Changing Guard (Berlin)

1897

A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies

1897

Firing the Maxim Gun

1897

Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun

1897

French Military School Exercise

1896

Sandow

1896

Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow

1896

Rip Van Winkle

1896

Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep

1896

Rip's Toast

1896

Annabelle in Flag Dance

1896

Hard Wash

1896

American Falls from Goat Island

1896

American Falls from Luna Island

1896

Serpentine Dance by Annabelle

1896

Awakening of Rip

1896

Dancing Darkies

1896

View on Boulevard, New York City

1896

A Watermelon Feast

1896

Tambourine Dance by Annabelle

1896

Sound Money Parade

1896

Exit of Rip and the Dwarf

1896

Rip Passing Over the Mountain

1896

Rip's Toast to Hudson

1896

Rip Meeting the Dwarf

1895

Billy Edwards and the Unknown

1895

Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

1895

A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby

1895

New Blacksmith Shop

1895

James Grundy, Buck and Wing

1895

Danse serpentine (Annabelle)

1894

Carmencita

1894

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

1894

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

1894

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

1894

The Cock Fight

1894

The Barber Shop

1894

Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)

1894

Buffalo Dance

1894

Sioux Ghost Dance

1894

Annie Oakley

1894

The Boxing Cats

1894

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

1894

Chinese Laundry Scene

1894

Imperial Japanese Dance

1894

Bucking Broncho

1894

Leonard-Cushing Fight

1894

Band Drill

1894

Hadj Cheriff

1894

Sandow: The Strong Man

1894

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

1894

Fire Rescue Scene

1894

Athlete with Wand

1894

The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight

1894

Rats and Terrier No. 2

1894

Rats and Terrier No. 3

1894

Rats and Weasel

1894

Buffalo Bill

1894

Cock Fight, No. 2

1894

The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”

1894

Annabelle Sun Dance

1894

Caicedo (with Pole)

1894

Trained Bears

1894

Chinese Opium Den

1894

Glenroy Bros., No. 2

1894

Dance

1894

A Bar Room Scene

1894

Ruth Dennis

1894

Boxing Match

1894

Fred Ott Holding a Bird

1894

Highland Dance

1894

Indian War Council

1894

Mexican Knife Duel

1894

Rat Killing

1894

Lasso Thrower

1894

Wrestling Match

1894

Mlle. Capitaine

1893

Blacksmithing Scene

1893

Horse Shoeing

1892

Fencing

1892

Man on Parallel Bars

1892

Wrestling

1892

A Hand Shake

1891

Dickson Greeting

1891

Newark Athlete

1891

Men Boxing

1891

Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud

1891

Monkey and Another, Boxing

1891

Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop

1891

Duncan Smoking

1891

Newark athlete. [No. 2]

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 1

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 2

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 3