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William K.L. Dickson

William K.L. Dickson

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

03/08/1860

Day of Death

28/09/1935
(75) years old

Place of Birth

Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France

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 t... Read More

Known For

General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton

General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii

Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square

Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Horse Shoeing

Horse Shoeing

A Hand Shake

A Hand Shake

Dickson Greeting

Dickson Greeting

Filmography

Crew

2007

Butterfly Dances

as Director

1997

Annabelle Dances and Dances

as Director

1908

Ten Pickaninnies

as Director

1902

Nabbed by the Nipper

as Director

1902

Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle

as Director

1902

An Obstinate Cork

as Director

1901

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram

as Director of Photography

1901

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram

as Director

1901

Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showin...

as Director

1900

English Nell

as Director

1900

English Nell

as Editor

1900

English Nell

as Producer

1900

Brook Trout Fishing

as Director

1900

Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Cro...

as Director of Photography

1900

Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag

as Director of Photography

1900

Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith

as Director of Photography

1900

Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 G...

as Director of Photography

1900

Four Warships in Rough Seas

as Director

1900

Warships at Sunset

as Director

1900

Tram Journey through Southampton

as Director

1900

Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns

as Director

1900

Dutch Fishing Fleet

as Director

1899

Naval Guns Firing at Colenso

as Director of Photography

1899

Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere

as Director of Photography

1899

King John

as Director

1899

Man Overboard!

as Director

1899

Flower Parade in Haarlem

as Director

1899

The Landing of Savage South Africa at So...

as Director

1899

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

as Director of Photography

1899

Amann, the Great Impersonator

as Director

1899

Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from ...

as Director of Photography

1899

The Lane on Sunday Morning

as Director of Photography

1899

Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899

as Director of Photography

1899

Launch of the 'Oceanic'

as Director of Photography

1899

Tapping a Blast Furnace

as Director of Photography

1899

Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Cam...

as Director of Photography

1899

Fun on a Sand Hill

as Director

1899

In a German Bath

as Director

1899

London Fire Brigade, Alarm

as Director

1899

In the Friedrichstrasse

as Director

1899

From Monte Carlo to Monaco

as Director

1899

Away Aloft

as Director

1899

Upside Down Boxers

as Director

1899

Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam

as Director

1899

Panoramic View of Windsor Castle

as Director

1899

Tapping a Blast Furnace

as Director

1899

Launch of the 'Oceanic'

as Director

1898

Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being...

as Director

1898

Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatica...

as Director

1898

From War to Peace: First Departure of S....

as Director

1898

Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1

as Director

1898

Duel to the Death

as Director

1898

Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto

as Director

1898

Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage

as Director

1898

The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Pa...

as Director

1898

Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in...

as Director

1898

Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amst...

as Director

1898

The Royal Procession to the Church befor...

as Director

1898

The Royal Procession from the Church aft...

as Director

1898

Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Hollan...

as Director

1898

Duel to the Death

as Director

1898

He and She

as Director

1898

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII

as Director

1898

Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1

as Director

1898

The Vatican Military Guard, Consisting o...

as Director

1898

Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His ...

as Director

1898

Capuchin Monks in Vatican City

as Director

1898

A Tug in a Heavy Sea

as Director of Photography

1898

Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club

as Director

1898

Me and My Two Friends

as Director of Photography

1898

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging...

as Director of Photography

1898

Military Exercise - Aldershot

as Director

1898

The Boulevard of Scheveningen

as Director

1898

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of...

as Director of Photography

1898

The Grand Canal, Venice

as Director

1898

Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W...

as Director

1898

Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark'...

as Director

1898

Pelicans at the Zoo

as Director of Photography

1898

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming A...

as Director of Photography

1898

Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market a...

as Director of Photography

1898

The Grand Canal, Venice

as Director of Photography

1898

Venice, harbour scene with gondolas

as Director

1898

Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market a...

as Director

1898

Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking u...

as Director

1898

Funeral Procession of the Misericordia

as Director

1898

Mills from the Zaanstreek

as Director

1898

Dutch Fishing Boats

as Director

1898

Maidenhead Junction

as Director

1898

A Blast at the Solvay Quarries

as Director

1898

The Tarantella, an Italian Dance

as Director

1898

The Bridge of Sighs, Venice

as Director

1898

Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats

as Director

1898

Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot

as Director

1898

Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Ble...

as Director

1897

Place de la Concorde

as Director

1897

Crissie Sheridan

as Director

1897

Fatima

as Director

1897

Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris

as Director

1897

Has He Hit Me?

as Director

1897

Les Parisiennes

as Director

1897

Bath Scene

as Director

1897

Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence...

as Director of Photography

1897

Home Life of a Hungarian Family

as Director

1897

Changing Guard (Berlin)

as Director

1897

A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies

as Director

1897

Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun

as Director

1897

Firing the Maxim Gun

as Director

1897

French Military School Exercise

as Director

1896

Sound Money Parade

as Director

1896

American Falls from Luna Island

as Director

1896

American Falls from Goat Island

as Director

1896

Sandow

as Director

1896

Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow

as Director

1896

Rip's Toast

as Director

1896

Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep

as Director

1896

Awakening of Rip

as Director

1896

Rip's Toast to Hudson

as Director

1896

Rip Meeting the Dwarf

as Director

1896

Exit of Rip and the Dwarf

as Director

1896

Rip Passing Over the Mountain

as Director

1896

Serpentine Dance by Annabelle

as Director

1896

Serpentine Dance by Annabelle

as Executive Producer

1896

Serpentine Dance by Annabelle

as Director of Photography

1896

McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio

as Director of Photography

1896

View on Boulevard, New York City

as Director

1896

Tambourine Dance by Annabelle

as Director

1896

Rip Van Winkle

as Director

1896

Hard Wash

as Director

1896

Little Egypt

as Producer

1896

Dancing Darkies

as Director

1896

Annabelle in Flag Dance

as Director

1896

A Watermelon Feast

as Director

1895

New Blacksmith Shop

as Director

1895

Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

as Director

1895

Danse serpentine (Annabelle)

as Director

1895

Billy Edwards and the Unknown

as Director

1895

Billy Edwards and the Unknown

as Producer

1895

James Grundy, Buck and Wing

as Director

1895

A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby

as Director

1894

Fire Rescue Scene

as Director

1894

Dance

as Director

1894

Indian War Council

as Director

1894

Band Drill

as Director

1894

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetogr...

as Director

1894

Imperial Japanese Dance

as Director

1894

Annie Oakley

as Director

1894

Bucking Broncho

as Director

1894

Chinese Opium Den

as Director

1894

Mexican Knife Duel

as Director

1894

Lasso Thrower

as Director

1894

Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)

as Director

1894

Hadj Cheriff

as Director

1894

The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight

as Director

1894

Buffalo Dance

as Director

1894

Sioux Ghost Dance

as Director

1894

Rats and Terrier No. 2

as Director

1894

Rats and Terrier No. 3

as Director

1894

Rats and Weasel

as Director

1894

Boxing Match

as Director

1894

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

as Director

1894

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

as Musician

1894

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

as Producer

1894

Caicedo (with Pole)

as Producer

1894

Caicedo (with Pole)

as Director

1894

The Boxing Cats

as Director

1894

The Boxing Cats

as Producer

1894

Buffalo Bill

as Director

1894

Leonard-Cushing Fight

as Director

1894

Sandow: The Strong Man

as Producer

1894

Sandow: The Strong Man

as Director

1894

The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing S...

as Director

1894

Trained Bears

as Director

1894

A Bar Room Scene

as Director

1894

Rat Killing

as Director

1894

Chinese Laundry Scene

as Director

1894

Wrestling Match

as Director

1894

Highland Dance

as Director

1894

Carmencita

as Director

1894

Carmencita

as Producer

1894

Athlete with Wand

as Producer

1894

Athlete with Wand

as Director

1894

Cock Fight, No. 2

as Producer

1894

Cock Fight, No. 2

as Director

1894

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

as Producer

1894

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

as Director

1894

The Barber Shop

as Producer

1894

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

as Producer

1894

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

as Director

1894

The Cock Fight

as Director

1894

The Barber Shop

as Director

1894

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

as Director

1894

Annabelle Sun Dance

as Director

1894

Glenroy Bros., No. 2

as Director

1894

Ruth Dennis

as Director

1894

Fred Ott Holding a Bird

as Director

1894

Japanese Dancers

as Producer

1894

Glenroy Bros., No. 2

as Producer

1894

Mlle. Capitaine

as Director

1894

Mlle. Capitaine

as Producer

1893

Blacksmithing Scene

as Director

1893

Blacksmithing Scene

as Producer

1893

Horse Shoeing

as Director

1892

A Hand Shake

as Producer

1892

Fencing

as Producer

1892

Fencing

as Director

1892

Man on Parallel Bars

as Director

1892

Wrestling

as Director

1892

A Hand Shake

as Director

1891

Dickson Greeting

as Director

1891

Dickson Greeting

as Producer

1891

Newark Athlete

as Producer

1891

Newark Athlete

as Director

1891

Newark athlete. [No. 2]

as Director

1891

Men Boxing

as Producer

1891

Men Boxing

as Director

1891

Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud

as Director

1891

Monkey and Another, Boxing

as Director

1891

Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop

as Director

1891

Duncan Smoking

as Director

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 1

as Director

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 2

as Director

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 3

as Director

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 1

as Producer

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 2

as Producer

1890

Monkeyshines, No. 3

as Producer