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William K.L. Dickson

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: August 03, 1860

Death: September 28, 1935

His Movies

Monkeyshines, No. 1
November 21, 1890
Dickson Greeting
May 20, 1891
Monkeyshines, No. 2
November 21, 1890
Monkeyshines, No. 3
November 21, 1890
Blacksmithing Scene
May 08, 1893
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
January 09, 1894
Carmencita
March 14, 1894
Men Boxing
April 30, 1891
Newark Athlete
May 01, 1891
Fencing
January 01, 1892
A Hand Shake
January 01, 1892
The Barber Shop
January 01, 1894
Athlete with Wand
February 01, 1894
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
May 18, 1894
Caicedo (with Pole)
July 25, 1894
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
January 01, 1894
Cock Fight, No. 2
January 15, 1894
Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
September 25, 1898
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
August 31, 1894
Amann, the Great Impersonator
January 01, 1899
Sandow
September 30, 1896
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
October 05, 1894
The Cock Fight
January 01, 1894
Buffalo Dance
September 23, 1894
Sioux Ghost Dance
September 23, 1894
Annie Oakley
November 01, 1894
The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902)
August 31, 2020
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
September 30, 1896
Rip Van Winkle
August 01, 1896
Rip's Toast
September 30, 1896
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
September 30, 1896
Annabelle in Flag Dance
January 01, 1896
Hard Wash
June 01, 1896
American Falls from Luna Island
October 02, 1896
American Falls from Goat Island
October 02, 1896
Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris
September 08, 1897
Military Exercise - Aldershot
February 18, 1898
Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa
June 01, 1898
Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1
June 01, 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
June 01, 1898
Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
September 06, 1898
Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
September 06, 1898
The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
September 06, 1898
The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
September 06, 1898
The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
September 06, 1898
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
November 17, 1894
The Boxing Cats
July 16, 1894
Imperial Japanese Dance
November 05, 1894
Chinese Laundry Scene
April 30, 1894
Bucking Broncho
October 16, 1894
Leonard-Cushing Fight
June 14, 1894
Band Drill
November 28, 1894
Hadj Cheriff
October 05, 1894
Crissie Sheridan
October 24, 1897
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
January 01, 1894
Fire Rescue Scene
December 01, 1894
Billy Edwards and the Unknown
January 30, 1895
King John
September 20, 1899
Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
May 16, 1895
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
October 02, 1894
Serpentine Dances by Annabelle
September 17, 1896
Rats and Terrier No. 2
September 01, 1894
Rats and Terrier No. 3
September 01, 1894
Rats and Weasel
September 01, 1894
Awakening of Rip
September 30, 1896
The Grand Canal, Venice
January 01, 1898
Dancing Darkies
January 02, 1896
A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
January 02, 1895
Buffalo Bill
June 17, 1894
Bath Scene
January 28, 1897
The Boulevard of Scheveningen
January 28, 1898
The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”
May 16, 1894
The Unwilling Draught Dog
January 01, 1898
Annabelle Sun Dance
January 01, 1894
Trained Bears
May 01, 1894
Man on Parallel Bars
January 01, 1892
Horse Shoeing
January 01, 1893
Wrestling
January 01, 1892
Monkey and Another, Boxing
January 01, 1891
Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
January 01, 1891
Duncan Smoking
January 01, 1891
Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
January 01, 1891
Chinese Opium Den
October 16, 1894
Glenroy Bros., No. 2
January 01, 1894
Dance
December 01, 1894
Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto
October 26, 1898
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
September 01, 1896
Duel to the Death
October 30, 1898
Duel to the Death
August 05, 1898
View on Boulevard, New York City
September 01, 1896
Little Egypt
March 01, 1896
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
July 01, 1898
New Blacksmith Shop
November 20, 1895
Capuchin Monks in Vatican City
May 01, 1898
Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway
January 01, 1898
Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag
January 01, 1900
Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899
January 01, 1899
A Tug in a Heavy Sea
April 01, 1898
A Watermelon Feast
January 01, 1896
Tambourine Dance by Annabelle
September 01, 1896
Ruth Dennis
January 01, 1894
A Bar Room Scene
May 01, 1894
Boxing Match
September 01, 1894
Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1
November 01, 1898
Fred Ott Holding a Bird
January 01, 1894
Japanese Dancers
January 01, 1894
Brook Trout Fishing
June 01, 1900
Fatima
Unknown
Sound Money Parade
November 02, 1896
Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club
April 01, 1898
Wrestling Match
April 01, 1894
Unsuccessful Somersault
March 01, 1894
Highland Dance
April 01, 1894
Rat Killing
May 01, 1894
Indian War Council
December 01, 1894
Mexican Knife Duel
October 06, 1894
Lasso Thrower
October 06, 1894
Rip Passing Over the Mountain
September 30, 1896
Rip's Toast to Hudson
September 30, 1896
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
September 30, 1896
Rip Meeting the Dwarf
September 30, 1896
Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House
January 01, 1897
He and She
August 01, 1898
Me and My Two Friends
April 01, 1898
Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere
December 01, 1899
Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
January 01, 1898
Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
December 01, 1898
Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore
January 01, 1898
Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse
April 01, 1898
Pelicans at the Zoo
January 01, 1898
Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899
January 01, 1899
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
April 01, 1899
Tapping a Blast Furnace
January 01, 1899
Launch of the 'Oceanic'
January 01, 1899
The Lane on Sunday Morning
January 01, 1899
Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel
December 01, 1898
Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp
January 01, 1899
Naval Guns Firing at Colenso
December 15, 1899
Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River
February 01, 1900
Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith
January 01, 1900
Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith
January 01, 1900
Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
January 01, 1898
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
January 02, 1898
Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
June 03, 1901
Has He Hit Me?
September 07, 1897
James Grundy, Buck and Wing
January 24, 1895
Butterfly Dances
June 01, 2007
Les Parisiennes
March 04, 1897
Place de la Concorde
December 01, 1897
Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
September 06, 1898
Venice, harbour scene with gondolas
January 01, 1898
Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
January 01, 1898
Home Life of a Hungarian Family
January 01, 1897
Fun on a Sand Hill
January 01, 1899
Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
January 01, 1898
Flower Parade in Haarlem
June 04, 1899
Warships at Sunset
January 01, 1900
Four Warships in Rough Seas
January 01, 1900
Tram Journey through Southampton
January 01, 1900
In a German Bath
January 01, 1899
From Monte Carlo to Monaco
January 01, 1899
Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
January 01, 1901
Dutch Fishing Boats
January 01, 1898
Dutch Fishing Fleet
January 01, 1900
From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton
November 05, 1898
Mills from the Zaanstreek
January 01, 1898
Man Overboard!
September 01, 1899
Away Aloft
January 01, 1899
Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
January 01, 1900
Changing Guard (Berlin)
January 01, 1897
In the Friedrichstrasse
January 01, 1899
London Fire Brigade, Alarm
January 01, 1899
Maidenhead Junction
January 01, 1898
A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
January 01, 1898
Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
January 01, 1897
Firing the Maxim Gun
January 01, 1897
Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
January 01, 1899
Upside Down Boxers
January 01, 1899
French Military School Exercise
January 01, 1897
Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
January 01, 1899
A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
January 01, 1897
The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
January 01, 1898
The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
January 01, 1898
Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats
January 01, 1898
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
April 01, 1895
Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot
January 01, 1898
A Collection of Silent Films, Given Sound
December 28, 2025
General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton
November 22, 1899

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William K.L. Dickson

His Movies

Monkeyshines, No. 1

Dickson Greeting

Monkeyshines, No. 2

Monkeyshines, No. 3

Blacksmithing Scene

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

Carmencita

Men Boxing

Newark Athlete

Fencing

A Hand Shake

The Barber Shop

Athlete with Wand

Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope

Caicedo (with Pole)

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

Cock Fight, No. 2

Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Amann, the Great Impersonator

Sandow

Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)

The Cock Fight

Buffalo Dance

Sioux Ghost Dance

Annie Oakley

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

Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow

Rip Van Winkle

Rip's Toast

Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep

Annabelle in Flag Dance

Hard Wash

American Falls from Luna Island

American Falls from Goat Island

Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris

Military Exercise - Aldershot

Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa

Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

The Boxing Cats

Imperial Japanese Dance

Chinese Laundry Scene

Bucking Broncho

Leonard-Cushing Fight

Band Drill

Hadj Cheriff

Crissie Sheridan

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

Fire Rescue Scene

Billy Edwards and the Unknown

King John

Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight

Serpentine Dances by Annabelle

Rats and Terrier No. 2

Rats and Terrier No. 3

Rats and Weasel

Awakening of Rip

The Grand Canal, Venice

Dancing Darkies

A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby

Buffalo Bill

Bath Scene

The Boulevard of Scheveningen

The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”

The Unwilling Draught Dog

Annabelle Sun Dance

Trained Bears

Man on Parallel Bars

Horse Shoeing