William K.L. Dickson

Birthday: 1860-08-03
Deathday: 1935-09-28
Birthplace: Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
Fatima
2025-12-28 A Collection of Silent Films, Given Sound
2020-08-31 The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902)
2007-06-01 Butterfly Dances
1997-01-01 Annabelle Dances and Dances
1902-05-27 Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle
1902-04-15 An Obstinate Cork
1901-06-03 Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
1901-01-01 Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
1900-09-06 English Nell
1900-06-01 Brook Trout Fishing
1900-01-01 Tram Journey through Southampton
1900-01-01 Four Warships in Rough Seas
1900-01-01 Warships at Sunset
1900-01-01 Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
1900-01-01 Dutch Fishing Fleet
1899-09-20 King John
1899-09-01 Man Overboard!
1899-06-04 Flower Parade in Haarlem
1899-01-01 Amann, the Great Impersonator
1899-01-01 Fun on a Sand Hill
1899-01-01 In a German Bath
1899-01-01 In the Friedrichstrasse
1899-01-01 From Monte Carlo to Monaco
1899-01-01 Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
1899-01-01 Upside Down Boxers
1899-01-01 Away Aloft
1899-01-01 London Fire Brigade, Alarm
1899-01-01 Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
1899-01-01 Tapping a Blast Furnace
1899-01-01 Launch of the 'Oceanic'
1898-12-01 Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
1898-12-01 Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel
1898-11-05 From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton
1898-11-01 Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1
1898-10-30 Duel to the Death
1898-10-26 Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto
1898-09-25 Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
1898-09-06 The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898-09-06 The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898-09-06 Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898-09-06 The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898-09-06 Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
1898-09-06 Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
1898-08-05 Duel to the Death
1898-08-01 He and She
1898-07-01 His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
1898-06-01 Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa
1898-06-01 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
1898-06-01 Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1
1898-05-01 Capuchin Monks in Vatican City
1898-04-01 Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club
1898-02-18 Military Exercise - Aldershot
1898-01-28 The Boulevard of Scheveningen
1898-01-01 The Grand Canal, Venice
1898-01-01 Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway
1898-01-01 Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
1898-01-01 Venice, harbour scene with gondolas
1898-01-01 Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
1898-01-01 Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
1898-01-01 Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
1898-01-01 Mills from the Zaanstreek
1898-01-01 Dutch Fishing Boats
1898-01-01 A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
1898-01-01 Maidenhead Junction
1898-01-01 The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
1898-01-01 The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
1898-01-01 Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats
1898-01-01 Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot
1897-12-01 Place de la Concorde
1897-10-24 Crissie Sheridan
1897-09-08 Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris
1897-09-07 Has He Hit Me?
1897-03-04 Les Parisiennes
1897-01-28 Bath Scene
1897-01-01 Home Life of a Hungarian Family
1897-01-01 Changing Guard (Berlin)
1897-01-01 A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
1897-01-01 Firing the Maxim Gun
1897-01-01 Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
1897-01-01 French Military School Exercise
1896-11-02 Sound Money Parade
1896-10-02 American Falls from Goat Island
1896-10-02 American Falls from Luna Island
1896-09-30 Sandow
1896-09-30 Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
1896-09-30 Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
1896-09-30 Rip's Toast
1896-09-30 Awakening of Rip
1896-09-30 Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
1896-09-30 Rip Passing Over the Mountain
1896-09-30 Rip's Toast to Hudson
1896-09-30 Rip Meeting the Dwarf
1896-09-17 Serpentine Dances by Annabelle
1896-09-01 View on Boulevard, New York City
1896-09-01 Tambourine Dance by Annabelle
1896-08-01 Rip Van Winkle
1896-06-01 Hard Wash
1896-01-02 Dancing Darkies
1896-01-01 Annabelle in Flag Dance
1896-01-01 A Watermelon Feast
1895-11-20 New Blacksmith Shop
1895-05-16 Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
1895-04-01 Annabelle Serpentine Dance
1895-01-30 Billy Edwards and the Unknown
1895-01-24 James Grundy, Buck and Wing
1895-01-02 A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
1894-12-01 Fire Rescue Scene
1894-12-01 Dance
1894-12-01 Indian War Council
1894-11-28 Band Drill
1894-11-17 Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
1894-11-05 Imperial Japanese Dance
1894-11-01 Annie Oakley
1894-10-16 Bucking Broncho
1894-10-16 Chinese Opium Den
1894-10-06 Mexican Knife Duel
1894-10-06 Lasso Thrower
1894-10-05 Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
1894-10-05 Hadj Cheriff
1894-10-02 The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
1894-09-23 Buffalo Dance
1894-09-23 Sioux Ghost Dance
1894-09-01 Rats and Terrier No. 2
1894-09-01 Rats and Terrier No. 3
1894-09-01 Rats and Weasel
1894-09-01 Boxing Match
1894-08-31 Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1894-07-25 Caicedo (with Pole)
1894-07-16 The Boxing Cats
1894-06-17 Buffalo Bill
1894-06-14 Leonard-Cushing Fight
1894-05-18 Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
1894-05-16 The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”
1894-05-01 Trained Bears
1894-05-01 A Bar Room Scene
1894-05-01 Rat Killing
1894-04-30 Chinese Laundry Scene
1894-04-01 Highland Dance
1894-04-01 Wrestling Match
1894-03-14 Carmencita
1894-03-01 Unsuccessful Somersault
1894-02-01 Athlete with Wand
1894-01-15 Cock Fight, No. 2
1894-01-09 Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
1894-01-01 Annabelle Butterfly Dance
1894-01-01 The Cock Fight
1894-01-01 The Barber Shop
1894-01-01 Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
1894-01-01 Annabelle Sun Dance
1894-01-01 Glenroy Bros., No. 2
1894-01-01 Ruth Dennis
1894-01-01 Fred Ott Holding a Bird
1893-05-08 Blacksmithing Scene
1893-01-01 Horse Shoeing
1892-01-01 Fencing
1892-01-01 Man on Parallel Bars
1892-01-01 Wrestling
1892-01-01 A Hand Shake
1891-05-20 Dickson Greeting
1891-05-01 Newark Athlete
1891-04-30 Men Boxing
1891-01-01 Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
1891-01-01 Monkey and Another, Boxing
1891-01-01 Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
1891-01-01 Duncan Smoking
1890-11-21 Monkeyshines, No. 1
1890-11-21 Monkeyshines, No. 2
1890-11-21 Monkeyshines, No. 3