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.
Directing
233
Male
1860-08-03
Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, W.K-L. Dickson, William Dickson, W.K.L. Dickson , WKL Dickson
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
Men Boxing
Newark Athlete
Fencing
The Barber Shop
Athlete with Wand
Sandow: The Strong Man
Caicedo (with Pole)
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Cock Fight, No. 2
Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
Amann, the Great Impersonator
Sandow
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
The Cock Fight
Buffalo Dance
Sioux Ghost Dance
Annie Oakley
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
Rip's Toast
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
Annabelle in Flag Dance
Hard Wash
American Falls from Luna Island
American Falls from Goat Island
Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris
Military Exercise - Aldershot
Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa
Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1
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
Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
The Boxing Cats
Imperial Japanese Dance
Chinese Laundry Scene
Bucking Broncho
Leonard-Cushing Fight
Band Drill
Hadj Cheriff
Crissie Sheridan
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
Fire Rescue Scene
Billy Edwards and the Unknown
King John
Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
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
Trained Bears
Man on Parallel Bars
Wrestling
Monkey and Another, Boxing
Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
Duncan Smoking
Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
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
Ruth Dennis
A Bar Room Scene
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
Wrestling Match
Highland Dance
Rat Killing
Indian War Council
Mexican Knife Duel
Lasso Thrower
Rip Passing Over the Mountain
Rip's Toast to Hudson
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
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
Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
Home Life of a Hungarian Family
Fun on a Sand Hill
Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
Flower Parade in Haarlem
Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
Warships at Sunset
Four Warships in Rough Seas
Tram Journey through Southampton
In a German Bath
From Monte Carlo to Monaco
Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
Dutch Fishing Boats
Dutch Fishing Fleet
From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton
Mills from the Zaanstreek
Man Overboard!
Away Aloft
Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
Changing Guard (Berlin)
In the Friedrichstrasse
London Fire Brigade, Alarm
Maidenhead Junction
A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
Firing the Maxim Gun
Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
Upside Down Boxers
French Military School Exercise
Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
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