
William Kennedy Dickson
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Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras (1860-1935)
About William Kennedy Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
Quick facts
- Known for
- Blacksmith Scene, King John, Annie Oakley
- Born
- 1860-08-03
- Died
- 1935-09-28
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TMDBFilm & television credits

Blacksmith Scene

King John

Annie Oakley

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)

Lasso Thrower

Carmencita

Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii

Billy Edwards and the Unknown

Buffalo Bill

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop

Venice, harbour scene with gondolas

Men Boxing

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore

Les Parisiennes
Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud

Wrestling

Sandow: The Strong Man
Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1

Band Drill

Rip Meeting the Dwarf

Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep

Tapping a Blast Furnace

Dickson Greeting
Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel

Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)

The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere

Horse Shoeing
Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa

Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)

Man on Parallel Bars

Has He Hit Me?

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

The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
Butterfly Dances

Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104

Cock Fight, No. 2

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow

Caicedo (with Pole)

The Grand Canal, Venice

Newark Athlete
Highland Dance
Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899

Glenroy Bros., No. 2

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

The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight

Launch of the 'Oceanic'

Imperial Japanese Dance

Fencing

Four Warships in Rough Seas

Hadj Cheriff

Duncan Smoking

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Annabelle in Flag Dance

Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith

Bath Scene

Me and My Two Friends

Crissie Sheridan

The Lane on Sunday Morning

Rat Killing

Annabelle Sun Dance

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram

Sandow

Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto

Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp

Duel to the Death

A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1

Serpentine Dance by Annabelle

View on Boulevard, New York City

Fun on a Sand Hill

The Barber Shop

Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio

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

Rip Passing Over the Mountain

Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River
The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”

Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith
Monkey and Another, Boxing

Tambourine Dance by Annabelle

Bucking Broncho

Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House

A Bar Room Scene
Leonard-Cushing Fight

Exit of Rip and the Dwarf

Naval Guns Firing at Colenso

Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII

Capuchin Monks in Vatican City

Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris

Fred Ott Holding a Bird

Fatima

Place de la Concorde

James Grundy, Buck and Wing

General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton

Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice

Dancing Darkies

Pelicans at the Zoo

Sioux Ghost Dance

American Falls from Goat Island
Dance

Buffalo Dance

Trained Bears

The Boulevard of Scheveningen

Rip Van Winkle

Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag

Athlete with Wand

Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899

American Falls from Luna Island

Amann, the Great Impersonator
Rats and Terrier No. 3

Rip's Toast to Hudson

Indian War Council
A Tug in a Heavy Sea

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse

Chinese Laundry Scene

A Hand Shake
Ruth Dennis

Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

Awakening of Rip

Monkeyshines, No. 1

Wrestling Match

Rip's Toast

Monkeyshines, No. 2

Chinese Opium Den
Rats and Terrier No. 2

Monkeyshines, No. 3

Military Exercise - Aldershot

Fire Rescue Scene

Little Egypt

New Blacksmith Shop

Japanese Dancers
The Cock Fight

Mexican Knife Duel

He and She

Boxing Match

Sound Money Parade

Rats and Weasel

Brook Trout Fishing

Hard Wash

A Watermelon Feast