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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character
1	An Obstinate Cork (1902)	Director / Writer	4
2	Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle (1902)	Director / Writer	3
3	Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. (1901)	Director / Writer	6
4	Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (1901)	Director / Writer	6
5	Brook Trout Fishing (1900)	Director / Writer	3
6	Tram Journey through Southampton (1900)	Director / Writer	6
7	Four Warships in Rough Seas (1900)	Director / Writer	6
8	Warships at Sunset (1900)	Director / Writer	6
9	Tapping a Blast Furnace (1899)	Director / Writer	3
10	Launch of the 'Oceanic' (1899)	Director / Writer	5
11	Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam (1899)	Director / Writer	6
12	Man Overboard! (1899)	Director / Writer	5
13	In the Friedrichstrasse (1899)	Director / Writer	6
14	Flower Parade in Haarlem (1899)	Director / Writer	6
15	Panoramic View of Windsor Castle (1899)	Director / Writer	6
16	Upside Down Boxers (1899)	Director / Writer	6
17	Orphan Girls in Amsterdam (1899)	Director / Writer	5
18	King John (1899)	Director / Writer	4
19	In a German Bath (1899)	Director / Writer	5
20	The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton (1899)	Director / Writer	4
21	General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton (1899)	Self	2
22	Away Aloft (1899)	Director / Writer	5
23	From Monte Carlo to Monaco (1899)	Director / Writer	7
24	London Fire Brigade, Alarm (1899)	Director / Writer	5
25	Fun on a Sand Hill (1899)	Director / Writer	4
26	Amann, the Great Impersonator (1899)	Director / Writer	3
27	Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto (1898)	Director / Writer	5
28	Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club (1898)	Director / Writer	4
29	Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)	Director / Writer	4
30	Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)	Director / Writer	4
31	Funeral Procession of the Misericordia (1898)	Director / Writer	5
32	Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed (1898)	Director / Writer	5
33	Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot (1898)	Director / Writer	4
34	Capuchin Monks in Vatican City (1898)	Director / Writer	5
35	The Boulevard of Scheveningen (1898)	Director / Writer	5
36	The Unwilling Draught Dog (1898)	Director / Writer	4
37	He and She (1898)	Director / Writer	4
38	Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 (1898)	Director / Writer	5.5
39	Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice (1898)	Director / Writer	8
40	Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (1898)	Director / Writer	5
41	Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage (1898)	Director / Writer	6
42	Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel (1898)	Director / Writer	5
43	Mills from the Zaanstreek (1898)	Director / Writer	5
44	The Grand Canal, Venice (1898)	Director / Writer	6
45	Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square (1898)	Director / Writer	6
46	From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton (1898)	Director / Writer	4
47	Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway (1898)	Director / Writer	7
48	Maidenhead Junction (1898)	Director / Writer	6
49	A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (1898)	Director / Writer	6
50	Venice, harbour scene with gondolas (1898)	Director / Writer	5
51	Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) (1898)	Director / Writer	6
52	The Tarantella, an Italian Dance (1898)	Director / Writer	6
53	Procession of Capuchin Monks (1898)	Director / Writer	5
54	Bath Scene (1897)	Director / Writer	6
55	Les Parisiennes (1897)	Director / Writer	6
56	Crissie Sheridan (1897)	Director / Writer	5
57	A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies (1897)	Director / Writer	5
58	Changing Guard (Berlin) (1897)	Director / Writer	5
59	French Military School Exercise (1897)	Director / Writer	5
60	Place de la Concorde (1897)	Director / Writer	4
61	Home Life of a Hungarian Family (1897)	Director / Writer	4
62	Has He Hit Me? (1897)	Director / Writer	4
63	Firing the Maxim Gun (1897)	Director / Writer	7
64	Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun (1897)	Director / Writer	7
65	Sandow (1896)	Director / Writer	5.5
66	View on Boulevard, New York City (1896)	Director / Writer	6
67	Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (1896)	Director / Writer	5
68	Awakening of Rip (1896)	Director / Writer	4
69	Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)	Director / Writer	4
70	Rip Van Winkle (1896)	Director / Writer	3
71	Rip's Toast (1896)	Director / Writer	6
72	Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)	Director / Writer	6
73	Rip's Toast to Hudson (1896)	Director / Writer	7
74	Rip Passing Over the Mountain (1896)	Director / Writer	6
75	Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)	Director / Writer	6
76	Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896)	Director / Writer	7
77	Billy Edwards and the Unknown (1895)	Director / Writer	5
78	Danse serpentine (Annabelle) (1895)	Director / Writer	7
79	New Blacksmith Shop (1895)	Director / Writer	3
80	James Grundy, Buck and Wing (1895)	Director / Writer	6
81	Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 (1895)	Director / Writer	2
82	Annabelle Sun Dance (1894)	Director / Writer	10
83	Sandow: The Strong Man (1894)	Director / Writer	5
84	Imperial Japanese Dance (1894)	Director / Writer	5
85	Bucking Broncho (1894)	Director / Writer	6
86	Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)	Director / Writer	4
87	Band Drill (1894)	Director / Writer	4
88	Hadj Cheriff (1894)	Director / Writer	5
89	Caicedo (with Pole) (1894)	Director / Writer	6
90	Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (1894)	Director / Writer	4
91	The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” (1894)	Director / Writer	3
92	Athlete with Wand (1894)	Director / Writer	1
93	Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894)	Director / Writer	7
94	Fire Rescue Scene (1894)	Director / Writer	6
95	The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (1894)	Director / Writer	6
96	Unsuccessful Somersault (1894)	Director / Writer	4
97	A Bar Room Scene (1894)	Director / Writer	3
98	Trained Bears (1894)	Director / Writer	7
99	Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)	Director / Writer	5
100	Buffalo Dance (1894)	Director / Writer	5
101	The Barber Shop (1894)	Director / Writer	6
102	Cock Fight, No. 2 (1894)	Director / Writer	5
103	Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)	Director / Writer	6
104	Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)	Director / Writer	6
105	Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)	Director / Writer	8
106	Chinese Laundry Scene (1894)	Director / Writer	5
107	The Boxing Cats (1894)	Director / Writer	5.5
108	Carmencita (1894)	Director / Writer	4
109	Buffalo Bill (1894)	Director / Writer	5
110	Annie Oakley (1894)	Director / Writer	8
111	Sioux Ghost Dance (1894)	Director / Writer	5
112	Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)	Director / Writer	6
113	The Cock Fight (1894)	Director / Writer	5
114	Horse Shoeing (1893)	Director / Writer	1
115	Blacksmithing Scene (1893)	Director / Writer	5
116	Fencing (1892)	Director / Writer	4
117	Boxing (1892)	Director / Writer	5
118	Man on Parallel Bars (1892)	Director / Writer	2
119	A Hand Shake (1892)	Director / Writer	3
120	Dickson Greeting (1891)	Director / Writer	4.5
121	Men Boxing (1891)	Director / Writer	4
122	Newark Athlete (1891)	Director / Writer	3.5
123	Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890)	Director / Writer	4
124	Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)	Director / Writer	3
125	Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890)	Director / Writer	3.5