William K.L. Dickson
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 3, 1860
- Place of birth
- Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
- Died
- September 28, 1935
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.
Movies with William K.L. Dickson
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film 1894 · ★ 6.1
- Dickson Greeting 1891 · ★ 5.0
- A Hand Shake 1892 · ★ 3.6
- Horse Shoeing 1893 · ★ 3.0
- General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton 1899 · ★ 4.5
- Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square 1898 · ★ 5.0
- Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii 1898 · ★ 5.0
Movies directed by William K.L. Dickson
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film 1894 · ★ 6.1
- Blacksmith Scene 1893 · ★ 5.6
- Danse serpentine (Annabelle) 1895 · ★ 5.9
- Monkeyshines, No. 1 1890 · ★ 5.1
- Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze 1894 · ★ 4.8
- Newark Athlete 1891 · ★ 4.6
- Carmencita 1894 · ★ 5.2
- Dickson Greeting 1891 · ★ 5.0
- Sandow 1896 · ★ 5.2
- Annie Oakley 1894 · ★ 6.0
- The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's) 1894 · ★ 5.9
- Monkeyshines, No. 2 1890 · ★ 4.7
- Annabelle Butterfly Dance 1894 · ★ 5.5
- Men Boxing 1891 · ★ 4.2
- Sandow: The Strong Man 1894 · ★ 5.1
- Caicedo (with Pole) 1894 · ★ 6.0
- Buffalo Dance 1894 · ★ 4.8
- The Barber Shop 1894 · ★ 5.1
- Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph 1894 · ★ 4.8
- Awakening of Rip 1896 · ★ 4.2
- A Hand Shake 1892 · ★ 3.6
- Sioux Ghost Dance 1894 · ★ 4.9
- Fire Rescue Scene 1894 · ★ 5.3
- Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow 1896 · ★ 4.4
- Rip Meeting the Dwarf 1896 · ★ 4.4
- Rip's Toast 1896 · ★ 4.3
- Bucking Broncho 1894 · ★ 4.5
- Exit of Rip and the Dwarf 1896 · ★ 4.2
- Rip Passing Over the Mountain 1896 · ★ 4.3
- Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) 1894 · ★ 4.9
- Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep 1896 · ★ 4.4
- Rip's Toast to Hudson 1896 · ★ 4.5
- Fencing 1892 · ★ 3.6
- Imperial Japanese Dance 1894 · ★ 4.6
- Luis Martinetti, Contortionist 1894 · ★ 5.3
- Athlete with Wand 1894 · ★ 4.0
- Leonard-Cushing Fight 1894 · ★ 5.3
- Monkeyshines, No. 3 1890 · ★ 3.4
- Band Drill 1894 · ★ 3.8
- The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight 1894 · ★ 4.7