William K.L. Dickson
Directing · Born 1860-08-03 · age 75 at death · Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
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.
Titles
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Danse serpentine (Annabelle)
Blacksmithing Scene
Monkeyshines, No. 1
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Newark Athlete
Carmencita
Sandow
Dickson Greeting
The Boxing Cats
Annie Oakley
Monkeyshines, No. 2
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Men Boxing
Sandow: The Strong Man
Caicedo (with Pole)
Buffalo Dance
The Barber Shop
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Awakening of Rip
A Hand Shake
Sioux Ghost Dance
Fire Rescue Scene
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
Rip's Toast
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
Rip Meeting the Dwarf
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
Rip Passing Over the Mountain
Bucking Broncho
Rip's Toast to Hudson
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
Imperial Japanese Dance
Fencing
Athlete with Wand
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
Leonard-Cushing Fight
Monkeyshines, No. 3
Band Drill
King John
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
Glenroy Bros., No. 2
Cock Fight, No. 2
Chinese Laundry Scene
Hadj Cheriff
Serpentine Dance by Annabelle
Rip Van Winkle
The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”
Annabelle Sun Dance
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
The Cock Fight
Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing
Billy Edwards and the Unknown
Horse Shoeing
Crissie Sheridan
Wrestling
Man on Parallel Bars
Chinese Opium Den
Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
New Blacksmith Shop