William K.L. Dickson

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Known For Directing

Known Credits 180

Gender Male

Birthday August 3, 1860

Day of Death September 28, 1935 (75 years old)

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

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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.

Known For

Directing

2020

… Director

2007

… Director

1901		Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram … Director
1901		Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. … Director

1900		Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns … Director
1900		Dutch Fishing Fleet … Director
1900		Tram Journey through Southampton … Director
1900		Four Warships in Rough Seas … Director
1900		Warships at Sunset … Director

1899		King John … Director
1899		Man Overboard! … Director
1899		Flower Parade in Haarlem … Director
1899		Amann, the Great Impersonator … Director
1899		Launch of the 'Oceanic' … Director
1899		London Fire Brigade, Alarm … Director
1899		Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam … Director
1899		Panoramic View of Windsor Castle … Director
1899		Tapping a Blast Furnace … Director
1899		In a German Bath … Director
1899		In the Friedrichstrasse … Director
1899		From Monte Carlo to Monaco … Director
1899		Away Aloft … Director
1899		Fun on a Sand Hill … Director

1898		Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 … Director
1898		Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel … Director
1898		Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 … Director
1898		Duel to the Death … Director
1898		Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto … Director
1898		Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage … Director
1898		The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina) … Director
1898		The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) … Director
1898		The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) … Director
1898		Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) … Director
1898		Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina) … Director
1898		Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) … Director
1898		Duel to the Death … Director
1898		He and She … Director
1898		His Holiness Pope Leo XIII … Director
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 … Director
1898		Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1 … Director
1898		Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa … Director
1898		Capuchin Monks in Vatican City … Director
1898		Military Exercise - Aldershot … Director
1898		The Boulevard of Scheveningen … Director
1898		The Unwilling Draught Dog … Director
1898		The Grand Canal, Venice … Director
1898		Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats … Director
1898		Upside Down Boxers … Director
1898		The Bridge of Sighs, Venice … Director
1898		A Blast at the Solvay Quarries … Director
1898		Mills from the Zaanstreek … Director
1898		Dutch Fishing Boats … Director
1898		The Tarantella, an Italian Dance … Director
1898		Maidenhead Junction … Director
1898		From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton … Director
1898		Funeral Procession of the Misericordia … Director
1898		Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed … Director
1898		Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice … Director
1898		Procession of Capuchin Monks … Director
1898		Venice, harbour scene with gondolas … Director
1898		Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square … Director
1898		Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway … Director

1897		Place de la Concorde … Director
1897		Crissie Sheridan … Director
1897		Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris … Director
1897		Has He Hit Me? … Director
1897		Les Parisiennes … Director
1897		Bath Scene … Director
1897		Changing Guard (Berlin) … Director
1897		French Military School Exercise … Director
1897		A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies … Director
1897		Firing the Maxim Gun … Director
1897		Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun … Director
1897		Home Life of a Hungarian Family … Director

1896		American Falls from Goat Island … Director
1896		American Falls from Luna Island … Director
1896		Exit of Rip and the Dwarf … Director
1896		Rip's Toast to Hudson … Director
1896		Rip Passing Over the Mountain … Director
1896		Rip Meeting the Dwarf … Director
1896		Awakening of Rip … Director
1896		Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep … Director
1896		Rip's Toast … Director
1896		Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow … Director
1896		Sandow … Director
1896		Serpentine Dances by Annabelle … Director
1896		View on Boulevard, New York City … Director
1896		Tambourine Dance by Annabelle … Director
1896		Rip Van Winkle … Director
1896		Hard Wash … Director
1896		Dancing Darkies … Director
1896		Annabelle in Flag Dance … Director

1895		New Blacksmith Shop … Director
1895		Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 … Director
1895		Annabelle Serpentine Dance … Director
1895		Billy Edwards and the Unknown … Director
1895		James Grundy, Buck and Wing … Director
1895		A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby … Director

1894		Indian War Council … Director
1894		Dance … Director
1894		Fire Rescue Scene … Director
1894		Band Drill … Director
1894		Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph … Director
1894		Imperial Japanese Dance … Director
1894		Annie Oakley … Director
1894		Chinese Opium Den … Director
1894		Bucking Broncho … Director
1894		Mexican Knife Duel … Director
1894		Lasso Thrower … Director
1894		Hadj Cheriff … Director
1894		Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) … Director
1894		The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight … Director
1894		Buffalo Dance … Director
1894		Sioux Ghost Dance … Director
1894		Boxing Match … Director
1894		Rats and Weasel … Director
1894		Rats and Terrier No. 3 … Director
1894		Rats and Terrier No. 2 … Director
1894		Dickson Experimental Sound Film … Director
1894		Caicedo (with Pole) … Director
1894		The Boxing Cats … Director
1894		Buffalo Bill … Director
1894		Leonard-Cushing Fight … Director
1894		Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope … Director
1894		The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” … Director
1894		A Bar Room Scene … Director
1894		Trained Bears … Director
1894		Rat Killing … Director
1894		Chinese Laundry Scene … Director
1894		Highland Dance … Director
1894		Wrestling Match … Director
1894		Carmencita … Director
1894		Unsuccessful Somersault … Director
1894		Athlete with Wand … Director
1894		Cock Fight, No. 2 … Director
1894		Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze … Director
1894		Ruth Dennis … Director
1894		Glenroy Bros., No. 2 … Director
1894		Annabelle Sun Dance … Director
1894		Luis Martinetti, Contortionist … Director
1894		The Cock Fight … Director
1894		Annabelle Butterfly Dance … Director

1893		Blacksmithing Scene … Director
1893		Horse Shoeing … Director
1893		The Barber Shop … Director

1892		A Hand Shake … Director
1892		Wrestling … Director
1892		Man on Parallel Bars … Director
1892		Fencing … Director

1891		Dickson Greeting … Director
1891		Newark Athlete … Director
1891		Men Boxing … Director
1891		Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop … Director
1891		Duncan Smoking … Director
1891		Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud … Director
1891		Monkey and Another, Boxing … Director

1890		Monkeyshines, No. 3 … Director
1890		Monkeyshines, No. 2 … Director
1890		Monkeyshines, No. 1 … Director

Camera

1901

… Director of Photography

1900		Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River … Director of Photography
1900		Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag … Director of Photography
1900		Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith … Director of Photography
1900		Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith … Director of Photography

1899		Naval Guns Firing at Colenso … Director of Photography
1899		Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere … Director of Photography
1899		Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race … Director of Photography
1899		Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899 … Director of Photography
1899		Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899 … Director of Photography
1899		The Lane on Sunday Morning … Director of Photography
1899		Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp … Director of Photography
1899		Tapping a Blast Furnace … Director of Photography
1899		Launch of the 'Oceanic' … Director of Photography
1899		The American Biograph in Circus O. Carré … Director of Photography

1898		A Tug in a Heavy Sea … Director of Photography
1898		Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse … Director of Photography
1898		Me and My Two Friends … Director of Photography
1898		Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii … Director of Photography
1898		The Grand Canal, Venice … Director of Photography
1898		Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice … Director of Photography
1898		Pelicans at the Zoo … Director of Photography
1898		Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore … Director of Photography

1897

… Director of Photography

1896

… Director of Photography

Production

1896

… Producer

1895

… Producer

1894		Dickson Experimental Sound Film … Producer
1894		Caicedo (with Pole) … Producer
1894		The Boxing Cats … Producer
1894		Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope … Producer
1894		Carmencita … Producer
1894		Athlete with Wand … Producer
1894		Cock Fight, No. 2 … Producer
1894		Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze … Producer
1894		Annabelle Butterfly Dance … Producer
1894		Glenroy Bros., No. 2 … Producer

1893		Blacksmithing Scene … Producer
1893		The Barber Shop … Producer

1892		A Hand Shake … Producer
1892		Fencing … Producer

1891		Dickson Greeting … Producer
1891		Newark Athlete … Producer
1891		Men Boxing … Producer

1890		Monkeyshines, No. 2 … Producer
1890		Monkeyshines, No. 1 … Producer

Acting

1898		Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii as Himself
1898		Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square as Man on left of picture

1894

as Self

1893

as Himself

1892

1891

as Himself

Sound

1894

… Musician

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William K.L. Dickson

Biography

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