Directing
William K.L. Dickson
1860 · Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
30 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
Blacksmith Scene
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King John
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Annie Oakley
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The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
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Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Self
Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
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Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
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Band Drill
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Butterfly Dances
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The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
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Buffalo Bill
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Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1
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