William K.L. Dickson

Known for: Directing
Born: August 3, 1860, Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
Died: September 28, 1935
Movies: 182

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.1

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

1894

5.6

Blacksmith Scene

1893

5.9

Danse serpentine (Annabelle)

1895

5.1

Monkeyshines, No. 1

1890

4.8

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

1894

4.6

Newark Athlete

1891

5.2

Carmencita

1894

5.0

Dickson Greeting

1891

5.2

Sandow

1896

6.0

Annie Oakley

1894

Filmography

1899	General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton	Self
1898	Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii	Self
1898	Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square	Man on left of picture
1894	Dickson Experimental Sound Film	Self
1893	Horse Shoeing	Self
1892	A Hand Shake
1891	Dickson Greeting	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

2007	Butterfly Dances	Director
1997	Annabelle Dances and Dances	Director
1908	Ten Pickaninnies	Director
1907	Mr. Hurry-up	Director
1902	Nabbed by the Nipper	Director
1902	Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle	Director
1902	An Obstinate Cork	Director
1901	Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram	Director
1901	Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.	Director
1900	English Nell	Director, Producer
1900	Brook Trout Fishing	Director
1900	Warships at Sunset	Director
1900	Four Warships in Rough Seas	Director
1900	Tram Journey through Southampton	Director
1900	Dutch Fishing Fleet	Director
1900	Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns	Director
1899	King John	Director
1899	Man Overboard!	Director
1899	Flower Parade in Haarlem	Director
1899	The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton	Director
1899	Amann, the Great Impersonator	Director
1899	Fun on a Sand Hill	Director
1899	In a German Bath	Director
1899	From Monte Carlo to Monaco	Director
1899	Away Aloft	Director
1899	In the Friedrichstrasse	Director
1899	London Fire Brigade, Alarm	Director
1899	Panoramic View of Windsor Castle	Director
1899	Upside Down Boxers	Director
1899	Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam	Director
1899	Tapping a Blast Furnace	Director
1899	Launch of the 'Oceanic'	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	From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton	Director
1898	Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1	Director
1898	Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto	Director
1898	Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage	Director
1898	Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (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	The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)	Director
1898	The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)	Director
1898	The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (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	Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa	Director
1898	Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1	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	Capuchin Monks in Vatican City	Director
1898	Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club	Director
1898	Military Exercise - Aldershot	Director
1898	The Boulevard of Scheveningen	Director
1898	Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii	Director
1898	The Grand Canal, Venice	Director
1898	Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway	Director
1898	Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square	Director
1898	Venice, harbour scene with gondolas	Director
1898	Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed	Director
1898	Funeral Procession of the Misericordia	Director
1898	Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice	Director
1898	Dutch Fishing Boats	Director
1898	Mills from the Zaanstreek	Director
1898	Maidenhead Junction	Director
1898	A Blast at the Solvay Quarries	Director
1898	The Tarantella, an Italian Dance	Director
1898	The Bridge of Sighs, Venice	Director
1898	Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats	Director
1898	Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot	Director
1898	Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing	Director
1897	Place de la Concorde	Director
1897	Crissie Sheridan	Director
1897	Fatima	Director
1897	Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris	Director
1897	Has He Hit Me?	Director
1897	Les Parisiennes	Director
1897	Bath Scene	Director
1897	Home Life of a Hungarian Family	Director
1897	Changing Guard (Berlin)	Director
1897	Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun	Director
1897	Firing the Maxim Gun	Director
1897	French Military School Exercise	Director
1897	A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies	Director
1896	Sound Money Parade	Director
1896	American Falls from Luna Island	Director
1896	American Falls from Goat Island	Director
1896	Sandow	Director
1896	Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow	Director
1896	Rip's Toast	Director
1896	Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep	Director
1896	Awakening of Rip	Director
1896	Rip Passing Over the Mountain	Director
1896	Rip's Toast to Hudson	Director
1896	Exit of Rip and the Dwarf	Director
1896	Rip Meeting the Dwarf	Director
1896	Serpentine Dance 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	Little Egypt	Producer
1896	Dancing Darkies	Director
1896	Annabelle in Flag Dance	Director
1896	A Watermelon Feast	Director
1895	New Blacksmith Shop	Director
1895	Robetta and Doretto, No. 1	Director
1895	Danse serpentine (Annabelle)	Director
1895	Billy Edwards and the Unknown	Director, Producer
1895	James Grundy, Buck and Wing	Director
1895	A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby	Director
1894	Fire Rescue Scene	Director
1894	Dance	Director
1894	Indian War Council	Director
1894	Band Drill	Director
1894	Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph	Director
1894	Imperial Japanese Dance	Director
1894	Annie Oakley	Director
1894	Bucking Broncho	Director
1894	Chinese Opium Den	Director
1894	Mexican Knife Duel	Director
1894	Lasso Thrower	Director
1894	Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)	Director
1894	Hadj Cheriff	Director
1894	The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight	Director
1894	Sioux Ghost Dance	Director
1894	Buffalo Dance	Director
1894	Rats and Terrier No. 2	Director
1894	Rats and Terrier No. 3	Director
1894	Rats and Weasel	Director
1894	Boxing Match	Director
1894	Dickson Experimental Sound Film	Director, Producer
1894	Caicedo (with Pole)	Producer, Director
1894	The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)	Director, Producer
1894	Buffalo Bill	Director
1894	Leonard-Cushing Fight	Director
1894	Sandow: The Strong Man	Producer, Director
1894	The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”	Director
1894	Trained Bears	Director
1894	A Bar Room Scene	Director
1894	Rat Killing	Director
1894	Chinese Laundry Scene	Director
1894	Wrestling Match	Director
1894	Highland Dance	Director
1894	Carmencita	Director, Producer
1894	Athlete with Wand	Producer, Director
1894	Cock Fight, No. 2	Producer, Director
1894	Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze	Producer, Director
1894	The Barber Shop	Producer, Director
1894	Annabelle Butterfly Dance	Producer, Director
1894	The Cock Fight	Director
1894	Luis Martinetti, Contortionist	Director
1894	Annabelle Sun Dance	Director
1894	Glenroy Bros., No. 2	Director, Producer
1894	Ruth Dennis	Director
1894	Fred Ott Holding a Bird	Director
1894	Japanese Dancers	Producer
1894	Mlle. Capitaine	Director, Producer
1893	Blacksmith Scene	Director, Producer
1893	Horse Shoeing	Director
1892	Fencing	Producer, Director
1892	A Hand Shake	Producer, Director
1892	Man on Parallel Bars	Director
1892	Wrestling	Director
1891	Dickson Greeting	Director, Producer
1891	Newark Athlete	Producer, Director
1891	Newark athlete. [No. 2]	Director
1891	Men Boxing	Producer, Director
1891	Monkey and Another, Boxing	Director
1891	Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud	Director
1891	Duncan Smoking	Director
1891	Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop	Director
1890	Monkeyshines, No. 1	Director, Producer
1890	Monkeyshines, No. 2	Director, Producer
1890	Monkeyshines, No. 3	Director, Producer

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