William K.L. Dickson

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) — Director
2. Danse serpentine (Annabelle) (1895) — Director
3. Blacksmithing Scene (1893) — Director
4. Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890) — Director
5. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) — Director
6. Newark Athlete (1891) — Director
7. Carmencita (1894) — Director
8. Sandow (1896) — Director
9. Dickson Greeting (1891) — Director
10. The Boxing Cats (1894) — Director
11. Annie Oakley (1894) — Director
12. Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890) — Director
13. Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894) — Director
14. Men Boxing (1891) — Director
15. Caicedo (with Pole) (1894) — Director
16. Sandow: The Strong Man (1894) — Director
17. Buffalo Dance (1894) — Director
18. The Barber Shop (1894) — Director
19. Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894) — Director
20. Awakening of Rip (1896) — Director
21. A Hand Shake (1892) — Director
22. Sioux Ghost Dance (1894) — Director
23. Fire Rescue Scene (1894) — Director
24. Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896) — Director
25. Rip's Toast (1896) — Director
26. Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896) — Director
27. Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896) — Director
28. Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896) — Director
29. Bucking Broncho (1894) — Director
30. Rip Passing Over the Mountain (1896) — Director
31. Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894) — Director
32. Rip's Toast to Hudson (1896) — Director
33. Imperial Japanese Dance (1894) — Director
34. Fencing (1892) — Director
35. Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894) — Director
36. Athlete with Wand (1894) — Director
37. Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894) — Director
38. Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890) — Director
39. Band Drill (1894) — Director
40. The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (1894) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) — Self
2. Dickson Greeting (1891) — Self
3. A Hand Shake (1892)
4. Horse Shoeing (1893) — Self
5. General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton (1899) — Self
6. Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square (1898) — Man on left of picture
7. Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (1898) — Self