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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.

Et billede af William K.L. Dickson

Directing

1890

[ ] Monkeyshines, No. 1 (Director)
[ ] Monkeyshines, No. 2 (Director)
[ ] Monkeyshines, No. 3 (Director)

1891

[ ] Dickson Greeting (Director)
[ ] Newark Athlete (Director)
[ ] Men Boxing (Director)
[ ] Monkey and Another, Boxing (Director)
[ ] Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud (Director)
[ ] Duncan Smoking (Director)
[ ] Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop (Director)
[ ] Newark athlete. [No. 2] (Director)

1892

[ ] Fencing (Director)
[ ] Man on Parallel Bars (Director)
[ ] Wrestling (Director)
[ ] A Hand Shake (Director)

1893

[ ] Blacksmithing Scene (Director)
[ ] Horse Shoeing (Director)

1894

[ ] Carmencita (Director)
[ ] Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Director)
[ ] Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (Director)
[ ] Annabelle Butterfly Dance (Director)
[ ] Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (Director)
[ ] The Cock Fight (Director)
[ ] The Barber Shop (Director)
[ ] Buffalo Dance (Director)
[ ] Sioux Ghost Dance (Director)
[ ] Annie Oakley (Director)
[ ] Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (Director)
[ ] The Boxing Cats (Director)
[ ] Imperial Japanese Dance (Director)
[ ] Chinese Laundry Scene (Director)
[ ] Bucking Broncho (Director)
[ ] Leonard-Cushing Fight (Director)
[ ] Band Drill (Director)
[ ] Hadj Cheriff (Director)
[ ] Sandow: The Strong Man (Director)
[ ] Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (Director)
[ ] Fire Rescue Scene (Director)
[ ] Athlete with Wand (Director)
[ ] The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (Director)
[ ] Rats and Terrier No. 2 (Director)
[ ] Rats and Terrier No. 3 (Director)
[ ] Rats and Weasel (Director)
[ ] Buffalo Bill (Director)
[ ] Cock Fight, No. 2 (Director)
[ ] The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” (Director)
[ ] Annabelle Sun Dance (Director)
[ ] Caicedo (with Pole) (Director)
[ ] Trained Bears (Director)
[ ] Chinese Opium Den (Director)
[ ] Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (Director)
[ ] Dance (Director)
[ ] Ruth Dennis (Director)
[ ] A Bar Room Scene (Director)
[ ] Boxing Match (Director)
[ ] Fred Ott Holding a Bird (Director)
[ ] Wrestling Match (Director)
[ ] Highland Dance (Director)
[ ] Rat Killing (Director)
[ ] Indian War Council (Director)
[ ] Mexican Knife Duel (Director)
[ ] Lasso Thrower (Director)
[ ] Mlle. Capitaine (Director)

1895

[ ] Billy Edwards and the Unknown (Director)
[ ] Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 (Director)
[ ] A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby (Director)
[ ] New Blacksmith Shop (Director)
[ ] James Grundy, Buck and Wing (Director)
[ ] Danse serpentine (Annabelle) (Director)

1896

[ ] Sandow (Director)
[ ] Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (Director)
[ ] Rip Van Winkle (Director)
[ ] Rip's Toast (Director)
[ ] Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (Director)
[ ] Annabelle in Flag Dance (Director)
[ ] Hard Wash (Director)
[ ] American Falls from Luna Island (Director)
[ ] American Falls from Goat Island (Director)
[ ] Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (Director)
[ ] Awakening of Rip (Director)
[ ] Dancing Darkies (Director)
[ ] View on Boulevard, New York City (Director)
[ ] A Watermelon Feast (Director)
[ ] Tambourine Dance by Annabelle (Director)
[ ] Sound Money Parade (Director)
[ ] Rip Passing Over the Mountain (Director)
[ ] Rip's Toast to Hudson (Director)
[ ] Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (Director)
[ ] Rip Meeting the Dwarf (Director)

1897

[ ] Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris (Director)
[ ] Crissie Sheridan (Director)
[ ] Bath Scene (Director)
[ ] Fatima (Director)
[ ] Has He Hit Me? (Director)
[ ] Les Parisiennes (Director)
[ ] Place de la Concorde (Director)
[ ] Home Life of a Hungarian Family (Director)
[ ] Changing Guard (Berlin) (Director)
[ ] Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun (Director)
[ ] Firing the Maxim Gun (Director)
[ ] French Military School Exercise (Director)
[ ] A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies (Director)

1898

[ ] Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage (Director)
[ ] Military Exercise - Aldershot (Director)
[ ] Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa (Director)
[ ] Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1 (Director)
[ ] 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 (Director)
[ ] Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (Director)
[ ] Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) (Director)
[ ] The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (Director)
[ ] The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (Director)
[ ] The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (Director)
[ ] The Grand Canal, Venice (Director)
[ ] The Boulevard of Scheveningen (Director)
[ ] Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto (Director)
[ ] Duel to the Death (Director)
[ ] Duel to the Death (Director)
[ ] His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (Director)
[ ] Capuchin Monks in Vatican City (Director)
[ ] Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway (Director)
[ ] Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 (Director)
[ ] Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club (Director)
[ ] He and She (Director)
[ ] Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square (Director)
[ ] Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 (Director)
[ ] Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel (Director)
[ ] Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) (Director)
[ ] Venice, harbour scene with gondolas (Director)
[ ] Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed (Director)
[ ] Funeral Procession of the Misericordia (Director)
[ ] Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice (Director)
[ ] Dutch Fishing Boats (Director)
[ ] From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton (Director)
[ ] Mills from the Zaanstreek (Director)
[ ] Maidenhead Junction (Director)
[ ] A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (Director)
[ ] The Tarantella, an Italian Dance (Director)
[ ] The Bridge of Sighs, Venice (Director)
[ ] Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats (Director)
[ ] Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot (Director)
[ ] Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing (Director)

1899

[ ] Amann, the Great Impersonator (Director)
[ ] King John (Director)
[ ] Fun on a Sand Hill (Director)
[ ] Flower Parade in Haarlem (Director)
[ ] In a German Bath (Director)
[ ] From Monte Carlo to Monaco (Director)
[ ] Man Overboard! (Director)
[ ] Away Aloft (Director)
[ ] In the Friedrichstrasse (Director)
[ ] London Fire Brigade, Alarm (Director)
[ ] Panoramic View of Windsor Castle (Director)
[ ] Upside Down Boxers (Director)
[ ] Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam (Director)
[ ] Tapping a Blast Furnace (Director)
[ ] Launch of the 'Oceanic' (Director)
[ ] The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton (Director)

1900

[ ] Brook Trout Fishing (Director)
[ ] Warships at Sunset (Director)
[ ] Four Warships in Rough Seas (Director)
[ ] Tram Journey through Southampton (Director)
[ ] Dutch Fishing Fleet (Director)
[ ] Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns (Director)
[ ] English Nell (Director)

1901

[ ] Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (Director)
[ ] Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. (Director)

1902

[ ] An Obstinate Cork (Director)
[ ] Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle (Director)
[ ] Nabbed by the Nipper (Director)

1908

[ ] Ten Pickaninnies (Director)

1997

[ ] Annabelle Dances and Dances (Director)

2007

[ ] Butterfly Dances (Director)

Production

1890

[ ] Monkeyshines, No. 1 (Producer)
[ ] Monkeyshines, No. 2 (Producer)
[ ] Monkeyshines, No. 3 (Producer)

1891

[ ] Men Boxing (Producer)
[ ] Newark Athlete (Producer)
[ ] Dickson Greeting (Producer)

1892

[ ] Fencing (Producer)
[ ] A Hand Shake (Producer)

1893

[ ] Blacksmithing Scene (Producer)

1894

[ ] Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (Producer)
[ ] The Barber Shop (Producer)
[ ] Athlete with Wand (Producer)
[ ] Sandow: The Strong Man (Producer)
[ ] Caicedo (with Pole) (Producer)
[ ] Annabelle Butterfly Dance (Producer)
[ ] Cock Fight, No. 2 (Producer)
[ ] Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Producer)
[ ] Japanese Dancers (Producer)
[ ] Carmencita (Producer)
[ ] The Boxing Cats (Producer)
[ ] Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (Producer)
[ ] Mlle. Capitaine (Producer)

1895

[ ] Billy Edwards and the Unknown (Producer)

1896

[ ] Little Egypt (Producer)
[ ] Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (Executive Producer)

1900

[ ] English Nell (Producer)

Sound

1894

[ ] Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Musician)

Camera

1896

[ ] McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio (Director of Photography)
[ ] Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (Director of Photography)

1897

[ ] Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House (Director of Photography)

1898

[ ] A Tug in a Heavy Sea (Director of Photography)
[ ] Me and My Two Friends (Director of Photography)
[ ] Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore (Director of Photography)
[ ] Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse (Director of Photography)
[ ] Pelicans at the Zoo (Director of Photography)
[ ] Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice (Director of Photography)
[ ] The Grand Canal, Venice (Director of Photography)
[ ] Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (Director of Photography)

1899

[ ] Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899 (Director of Photography)
[ ] Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere (Director of Photography)
[ ] Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899 (Director of Photography)
[ ] Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (Director of Photography)
[ ] Tapping a Blast Furnace (Director of Photography)
[ ] Launch of the 'Oceanic' (Director of Photography)
[ ] The Lane on Sunday Morning (Director of Photography)
[ ] Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp (Director of Photography)
[ ] Naval Guns Firing at Colenso (Director of Photography)

1900

[ ] Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag (Director of Photography)
[ ] Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River (Director of Photography)
[ ] Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith (Director of Photography)
[ ] Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith (Director of Photography)

1901

[ ] Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (Director of Photography)

Editing

1900

[ ] English Nell (Editor)

Actor

1891

[ ] Dickson Greeting (Himself)

1892

[ ] A Hand Shake (????)

1893

[ ] Horse Shoeing (Himself)

1894

[ ] Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Self)

1898

[ ] Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square (Man on left of picture)
[ ] Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (Himself)

1899

[ ] General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton (Himself)