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William K.L. Dickson

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1860-08-03

Deathday: 1935-09-28 (75 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 198

Movies 198

Director 171

Producer 7

self 3

Director

William K.L. Dickson

Biography

Filmography

all 198

Movies 198

Director 171

Producer 7

self 3

The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902) (2020)

Butterfly Dances (2007)

Mr. Hurry-up (1907)

An Obstinate Cork (1902)

Henley Regatta (1901)

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (1901)

King Edward's Arrival at Helsingor (1901)

Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. (1901)

Brook Trout Fishing (1900)

Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River (1900)

Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag (1900)

Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith (1900)

Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith (1900)

Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns (1900)

Dutch Fishing Fleet (1900)

Four Warships in Rough Seas (1900)

Tram Journey through Southampton (1900)

Warships at Sunset (1900)

Naval Guns Firing at Colenso (1899)

Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere (1899)

General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton (1899)

King John (1899)

Man Overboard! (1899)

Flower Parade in Haarlem (1899)

The Gordon Highlanders (1899)

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1899)

Away Aloft (1899)

From Monte Carlo to Monaco (1899)

Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899 (1899)

Amann, the Great Impersonator (1899)

Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899 (1899)

The Lane on Sunday Morning (1899)

Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp (1899)

Fun on a Sand Hill (1899)

Tapping a Blast Furnace (1899)

Upside Down Boxers (1899)

In the Friedrichstrasse (1899)

London Fire Brigade, Alarm (1899)

In a German Bath (1899)

Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam (1899)

Panoramic View of Windsor Castle (1899)

Launch of the 'Oceanic' (1899)

Naval Exercise (1899)

Boys Bathing: Venice (1898)

Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 (1898)

Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel (1898)

From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton (1898)

Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 (1898)

Duel to the Death (1898)

Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto (1898)

Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage (1898)

The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)

Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) (1898)

The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)

The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)

Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)

Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) (1898)

Duel to the Death (1898)

He and She (1898)

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (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 (1898)

Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1 (1898)

Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa (1898)

Capuchin Monks in Vatican City (1898)

Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club (1898)

A Tug in a Heavy Sea (1898)

Me and My Two Friends (1898)

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse (1898)

Military Exercise - Aldershot (1898)

The Boulevard of Scheveningen (1898)

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (1898)

The Grand Canal, Venice (1898)