William K.L. Dickson

Родился: 1860-08-03, Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France

Умер: 1935-09-28

Биография

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.

Фильмография

• King John (1899)
• Blacksmith Scene (1893)
• Horse Shoeing (1893)
• Band Drill (1894)
• Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)
• Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)
• Carmencita (1894)
• Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) (1898)
• Danse serpentine (Annabelle) (1895)
• Men Boxing (1891)
• Dickson Greeting (1891)
• Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
• Rip's Toast (1896)
• Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896)
• Newark Athlete (1891)
• Away Aloft (1899)
• Maidenhead Junction (1898)
• Fencing (1892)
• Buffalo Dance (1894)
• Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
• Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
• Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (1894)
• The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
• Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)
• Sioux Ghost Dance (1894)
• Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina) (1898)
• Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
• Annabelle Sun Dance (1894)
• Awakening of Rip (1896)
• An Obstinate Cork (1902)