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.
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
233
Gender
Male
Birthday
1860-08-03
Place of Birth
Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
Also Known As
William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, W.K-L. Dickson, William Dickson, W.K.L. Dickson , WKL Dickson
Known For
Dickson Greeting 
Dickson Experimental Sound Film 
A Hand Shake 
Horse Shoeing 
General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton 
Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square 
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii 
Monkeyshines, No. 1 
Monkeyshines, No. 2 
Monkeyshines, No. 3 
Blacksmithing Scene 
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze 
Carmencita 
Newark Athlete 
Caicedo (with Pole) 
Men Boxing 
Annabelle Butterfly Dance 
The Barber Shop 
Fencing 
Sandow: The Strong Man 
Athlete with Wand 
Cock Fight, No. 2 
Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage 
Amann, the Great Impersonator 
Sandow 
The Cock Fight 
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) 
Buffalo Dance 
Sioux Ghost Dance 
Annie Oakley 
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow 
Rip Van Winkle 
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep Rip's Toast 
Annabelle in Flag Dance 
Hard Wash Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris 
American Falls from Goat Island 
American Falls from Luna Island Military Exercise - Aldershot Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa 
The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina) 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 
The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) 
Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina) 
The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1 
Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) 
The Boxing Cats 
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph 
Chinese Laundry Scene 
Imperial Japanese Dance 
Bucking Broncho Leonard-Cushing Fight 
Band Drill Hadj Cheriff Crissie Sheridan 
Billy Edwards and the Unknown 
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist 
Fire Rescue Scene 
King John 
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight 
Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 
Serpentine Dance by Annabelle Rats and Terrier No. 2 Rats and Terrier No. 3 Rats and Weasel 
Awakening of Rip 
The Grand Canal, Venice Dancing Darkies A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby 
Buffalo Bill 
Bath Scene 
The Boulevard of Scheveningen The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” 
Annabelle Sun Dance 
Man on Parallel Bars 
Trained Bears 
Wrestling Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud Monkey and Another, Boxing Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop 
Duncan Smoking 
Chinese Opium Den 
Glenroy Bros., No. 2 Dance 
Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto 
Duel to the Death View on Boulevard, New York City 
Little Egypt His Holiness Pope Leo XIII 
New Blacksmith Shop 
Capuchin Monks in Vatican City 
Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway 
A Watermelon Feast Tambourine Dance by Annabelle 
A Bar Room Scene Ruth Dennis Boxing Match Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 
Fred Ott Holding a Bird 
Japanese Dancers Brook Trout Fishing 
Fatima 
Sound Money Parade 
Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club Highland Dance 
Indian War Council Mexican Knife Duel 
Rat Killing Lasso Thrower 
Wrestling Match Exit of Rip and the Dwarf Rip Passing Over the Mountain Rip's Toast to Hudson Rip Meeting the Dwarf 
He and She 
Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel 
Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram Has He Hit Me? 
James Grundy, Buck and Wing Butterfly Dances 
Les Parisiennes 
Place de la Concorde 
Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) 
Venice, harbour scene with gondolas 
Tram Journey through Southampton 
Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed 
Four Warships in Rough Seas 
Flower Parade in Haarlem 
Home Life of a Hungarian Family 
Funeral Procession of the Misericordia 
Fun on a Sand Hill 
Warships at Sunset 
Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice 
Man Overboard! 
In a German Bath 
In the Friedrichstrasse 
Mills from the Zaanstreek 
Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns 
From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton 
Changing Guard (Berlin) 
Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. 
Dutch Fishing Boats 
Dutch Fishing Fleet 
From Monte Carlo to Monaco 
A Blast at the Solvay Quarries 
Panoramic View of Windsor Castle 
Upside Down Boxers 
A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies 
Away Aloft 
Firing the Maxim Gun 
Maidenhead Junction 
Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun 
London Fire Brigade, Alarm 
French Military School Exercise 
The Tarantella, an Italian Dance 
Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam 
The Bridge of Sighs, Venice 
Tapping a Blast Furnace 
Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats 
Danse serpentine (Annabelle) 
Launch of the 'Oceanic' 
Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot English Nell 
An Obstinate Cork 
Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle Annabelle Dances and Dances 
Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing 
Ten Pickaninnies 
The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton Newark athlete. [No. 2] Mlle. Capitaine Nabbed by the Nipper Mr. Hurry-up This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.