🎬 Director
William K.L. Dickson
🎂 Born 3 August 1860 (age 75)✝ 28 September 1935📍 Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
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Acting Credits
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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.
Known For
Directed Films(134)
★ 3.0
Horse Shoeing
1893
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★ 4.7
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
1894
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★ 5.6
Blacksmithing Scene
1893
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★ 5.0
Dickson Greeting
1891
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★ 4.3
Men Boxing
1891
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★ 4.5
Newark Athlete
1891
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★ 5.9
The Boxing Cats
1894
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★ 5.0
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
1894
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★ 5.2
Chinese Laundry Scene
1894
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★ 3.6
Fencing
1892
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★ 7.0
Duel to the Death
1898
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★ 4.8
Buffalo Dance
1894
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★ 5.3
Fire Rescue Scene
1894
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★ 3.5
A Watermelon Feast
1896
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★ 4.4
Bucking Broncho
1894
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★ 5.9
Annie Oakley
1894
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★ 5.1
The Barber Shop
1894
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★ 5.0
Glenroy Bros., No. 2
1894
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★ 5.0
Monkeyshines, No. 1
1890
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★ 4.6
Monkeyshines, No. 2
1890
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★ 1.0
Annabelle in Flag Dance
1896
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★ 6.1
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1894
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★ 3.6
A Hand Shake
1892
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★ 3.4
Buffalo Bill
1894
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★ 4.8
Sioux Ghost Dance
1894
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★ 4.9
King John
1899
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★ 1.0
Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot
1898
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★ 4.5
Imperial Japanese Dance
1894
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★ 5.2
Carmencita
1894
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★ 3.6
Monkeyshines, No. 3
1890
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★ 3.8
Band Drill
1894
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★ 5.9
Danse serpentine (Annabelle)
1895
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★ 3.8
Cock Fight, No. 2
1894
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★ 5.5
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
1894
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★ 5.3
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
1894
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★ 6.0
Fred Ott Holding a Bird
1894
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★ 4.8
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
1894
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★ 5.2
Sandow: The Strong Man
1894
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★ 1.8
Indian War Council
1894
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★ 3.8
New Blacksmith Shop
1895
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★ 3.8
Duncan Smoking
1891
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★ 4.2
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
1896
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★ 4.4
Rip Meeting the Dwarf
1896
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★ 4.3
Rip's Toast
1896
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★ 4.4
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
1896
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★ 4.3
Ten Pickaninnies
1908
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★ 6.0
Caicedo (with Pole)
1894
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★ 5.3
Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing
1898
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★ 3.0
Rat Killing
1894
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★ 3.0
Chinese Opium Den
1894
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★ 4.5
Annabelle Sun Dance
1894
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★ 4.0
Billy Edwards and the Unknown
1895
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★ 4.2
Rip Van Winkle
1896
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★ 7.5
Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway
1898
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★ 4.0
Athlete with Wand
1894
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★ 4.2
Awakening of Rip
1896
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★ 5.0
A Bar Room Scene
1894
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★ 4.8
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
1894
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★ 2.0
Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
1898
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★ 5.3
Bath Scene
1897
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★ 4.5
Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
1898
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★ 4.4
Rip Passing Over the Mountain
1896
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★ 7.0
The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
1898
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★ 3.6
Wrestling Match
1894
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★ 8.3
Launch of the 'Oceanic'
1899
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★ 4.3
The Boulevard of Scheveningen
1898
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★ 5.3
Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
1898
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Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
1898
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★ 5.5
Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto
1898
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★ 6.7
Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
1897
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★ 4.4
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
1896
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★ 5.5
Serpentine Dance by Annabelle
1896
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★ 6.0
French Military School Exercise
1897
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★ 6.5
Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle
1902
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The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898
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★ 5.7
Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
1898
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★ 5.3
Sandow
1896
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★ 6.0
Capuchin Monks in Vatican City
1898
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★ 1.5
James Grundy, Buck and Wing
1895
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★ 6.0
Dutch Fishing Fleet
1900
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★ 5.5
The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton
1899
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Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898
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★ 6.5
Amann, the Great Impersonator
1899
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★ 3.3
Trained Bears
1894
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★ 7.0
Mills from the Zaanstreek
1898
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★ 9.0
Fatima
1897
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★ 8.0
Changing Guard (Berlin)
1897
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★ 6.0
Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
1899
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★ 5.7
Home Life of a Hungarian Family
1897
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The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898
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★ 8.0
In a German Bath
1899
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★ 3.5
Wrestling
1892
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★ 7.0
A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
1897
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★ 6.3
Upside Down Boxers
1899
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The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898
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American Falls from Goat Island
1896
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★ 7.0
Away Aloft
1899
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★ 4.5
Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
1900
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★ 5.0
Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
1898
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★ 6.0
From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton
1898
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★ 5.0
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
1898
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★ 8.0
In the Friedrichstrasse
1899
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★ 6.5
Venice, harbour scene with gondolas
1898
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★ 3.2
Man on Parallel Bars
1892
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★ 6.5
Tram Journey through Southampton
1900
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★ 2.4
Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
1895
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★ 7.0
From Monte Carlo to Monaco
1899
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★ 6.5
Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club
1898
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★ 5.6
Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
1898
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★ 8.3
Four Warships in Rough Seas
1900
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★ 6.3
Warships at Sunset
1900
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★ 4.0
Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
1899
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★ 4.8
Les Parisiennes
1897
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★ 7.0
Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
1898
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★ 4.0
The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
1898
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★ 6.5
Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
1901
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★ 6.0
Flower Parade in Haarlem
1899
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★ 8.5
Fun on a Sand Hill
1899
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★ 6.0
Maidenhead Junction
1898
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★ 4.3
Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
1901
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American Falls from Luna Island
1896
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★ 6.3
Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats
1898
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★ 8.0
Man Overboard!
1899
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★ 1.0
Hard Wash
1896
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★ 8.0
Sound Money Parade
1896
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★ 7.5
London Fire Brigade, Alarm
1899
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★ 6.5
Tapping a Blast Furnace
1899
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★ 4.8
An Obstinate Cork
1902
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★ 6.5
Dutch Fishing Boats
1898
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★ 5.0
Firing the Maxim Gun
1897
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★ 6.0
A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
1898
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★ 3.7
The Grand Canal, Venice
1898
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★ 4.5
He and She
1898
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★ 6.9
Place de la Concorde
1897
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Full Filmography(7 films)
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