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William K.L. Dickson

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1860 - 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.

Birthday: 1860-08-03

Born At: Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France

Casted In:

Dickson Greeting

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

A Hand Shake

Crewed In:

Carmencita

Blacksmith Scene

Monkeyshines, No. 1

Dickson Greeting

Monkeyshines, No. 2

Monkeyshines, No. 3

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Newark Athlete

Fencing

A Hand Shake

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

Sioux Ghost Dance

Annie Oakley

Annabelle Serpentine Dance

Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow

Exit of Rip and the Dwarf

Rip Passing Over the Mountain

Rip's Toast to Hudson

Rip Meeting the Dwarf

Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep

Awakening of Rip

Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)

The Cock Fight

The Barbershop

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)

Imperial Japanese Dance

Chinese Laundry Scene

Bucking Broncho

Leonard-Cushing Fight

Band Drill

McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio

Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope

Caicedo (with Pole)

Athlete with Wand

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

Fire Rescue Scene

Billy Edwards and the Unknown

Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”

The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight

Serpentine Dance by Annabelle

Crissie Sheridan

King John

Dancing Darkies

A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby

Cock Fight, No. 2

De boulevard van Scheveningen

Annabelle Sun Dance

Man on Parallel Bars

Monkey and Another, Boxing

Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud

New Blacksmith Shop