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.
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Filmography
all 185
Movies 185
Director 165
Producer 2
self 1
Director
The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902) (2020)
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Director
Butterfly Dances (2007)
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Director
Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram (1901)
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Cinematographer
King Edward's Arrival at Helsingor (1901)
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Cinematographer
Henley Regatta (1901)
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Director
Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc. (1901)
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Director of Photography
Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River (1900)
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Director of Photography
Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith (1900)
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Director of Photography
Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith (1900)
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Director
Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns (1900)
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Director
Dutch Fishing Fleet (1900)
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Director
Four Warships in Rough Seas (1900)
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Director
Tram Journey through Southampton (1900)
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Director
Warships at Sunset (1900)
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Director of Photography
Naval Guns Firing at Colenso (1899)
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Director of Photography
Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere (1899)
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Director
King John (1899)
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Director
Man Overboard! (1899)
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Director
Flower Parade in Haarlem (1899)
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Cinematographer
The Gordon Highlanders (1899)
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Director of Photography
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1899)
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Cinematographer
Away Aloft (1899)
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Director
From Monte Carlo to Monaco (1899)
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Director
Amann, the Great Impersonator (1899)
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Director of Photography
Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899 (1899)
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Director of Photography
The Lane on Sunday Morning (1899)
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Director of Photography
Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp (1899)
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Director
Fun on a Sand Hill (1899)
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Director / Director of Photography
Tapping a Blast Furnace (1899)
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Director
In the Friedrichstrasse (1899)
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Director
London Fire Brigade, Alarm (1899)
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Director
In a German Bath (1899)
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Director
Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam (1899)
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Director
Panoramic View of Windsor Castle (1899)
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Director of Photography
The American Biograph in Circus O. Carré (1899)
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Director / Director of Photography
Launch of the 'Oceanic' (1899)
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Director
Naval Exercise (1899)
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Director
Boys Bathing: Venice (1898)
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Director
Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 (1898)
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Director
Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel (1898)
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Director
Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 (1898)
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Director
Duel to the Death (1898)
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Director
Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto (1898)
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Cinematographer
Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage (1898)
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Director
The Royal Procession to the Church before the Coronation Ceremony (1898)
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Director
Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor) (1898)
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Director
The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (The Queen and Her People) (1898)
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Director
The Royal Procession from the Church after the Coronation Ceremony (1898)
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Director
Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (1898)
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Director
Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1) (1898)
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Director
Duel to the Death (1898)
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Director
He and She (1898)
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Director
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (1898)
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Director
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 (1898)
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Director
Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1 (1898)
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Director
Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa (1898)
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Director of Photography
Me and My Two Friends (1898)
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Director of Photography
Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse (1898)
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Director
Military Exercise - Aldershot (1898)
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Director
The Boulevard of Scheveningen (1898)
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Himself / Director of Photography
Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii (1898)
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Cinematographer
Menai Bridge, the Day Irish Mail from Euston Entering the Tubular Bridge Over the Menai Straits (1898)
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Cinematographer
Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore (1898)
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Cinematographer
Conway Castle (1898)
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Director
Procession of Capuchin Monks (1898)
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Cinematographer
Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot (1898)
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Director
The Grand Canal, Venice (1898)
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Director
From War to Peace (1898)
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Director
Pelicans at the Zoo (1898)
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Director
Maidenhead Junction (1898)
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Director
Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)
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Cinematographer
Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed (1898)
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Director
Mills from the Zaanstreek (1898)
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Director
Upside Down Boxers (1898)
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Director
A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (1898)
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Director
The Tarantella, an Italian Dance (1898)
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Director
Dutch Fishing Boats (1898)
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Director
The Bridge of Sighs, Venice (1898)
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Director
Venice, harbour scene with gondolas (1898)
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Director
Funeral Procession of the Misericordia (1898)
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Director / Director of Photography
Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice (1898)
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Man on left
Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square (1898)
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Director
Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway (1898)
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Director
The Unwilling Draught Dog (1898)
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Director
Place de la Concorde (1897)
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Director
Crissie Sheridan (1897)
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Director
Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris (1897)
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Director
Has He Hit Me? (1897)
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Director
Les Parisiennes (1897)
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Director
Bath Scene (1897)
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Director
Home Life of a Hungarian Family (1897)
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Cinematographer
Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House (1897)
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Director
French Military School Exercise (1897)
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Director
Firing the Maxim Gun (1897)
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Director
Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun (1897)
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Director
A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies (1897)
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Director
Changing Guard (Berlin) (1897)
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Director
Sandow (1896)
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Director
Cock Fight (1896)
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Director
American Falls from Goat Island (1896)
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Director
American Falls from Luna Island (1896)
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Director
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896)
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Director
Awakening of Rip (1896)
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6
Director
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
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Director
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)
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Director
Rip's Toast to Hudson (1896)
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Director
Rip's Toast (1896)
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6
Director
Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)
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6
Director
Rip Passing Over the Mountain (1896)
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6
Director
Serpentine Dances by Annabelle (1896)
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Cinematographer
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio (1896)
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Director
View on Boulevard, New York City (1896)
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Director
Tambourine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
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Director
Rip Van Winkle (1896)
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Director
Hard Wash (1896)
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Producer
Little Egypt (1896)
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Director
Dancing Darkies (1896)
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Director
Annabelle in Flag Dance (1896)
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Director
New Blacksmith Shop (1895)
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Director
Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 (1895)
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Director
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
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Director
Billy Edwards and the Unknown (1895)
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6
Director
James Grundy, Buck and Wing (1895)
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Director
A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby (1895)
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Director
Dance (1894)
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Director
Fire Rescue Scene (1894)
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Director
Indian War Council (1894)
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Director
Band Drill (1894)
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Director
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
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6.8
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Imperial Japanese Dance (1894)
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Director
Annie Oakley (1894)
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Director
Chinese Opium Den (1894)
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Director
Bucking Broncho (1894)
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Director
Lasso Thrower (1894)
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Director
Mexican Knife Duel (1894)
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Director
Hadj Cheriff (1894)
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Director
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894)
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Director
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (1894)
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Director
Buffalo Dance (1894)
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Director
Sioux Ghost Dance (1894)
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6
Director
Rats and Terrier No. 3 (1894)
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Producer
Boxing Match (1894)
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Director
Rats and Weasel (1894)
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Director
Rats and Terrier No. 2 (1894)
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Violinist
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
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Director
Caicedo (with Pole) (1894)
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Director
The Boxing Cats (1894)
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Director
Buffalo Bill (1894)
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Director
Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)
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6
Director
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (1894)
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Director
The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” (1894)
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Director
A Bar Room Scene (1894)
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Director
Rat Killing (1894)
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Director
Trained Bears (1894)
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Director
Chinese Laundry Scene (1894)
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Director
Wrestling Match (1894)
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Director
Highland Dance (1894)
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Director
Carmencita (1894)
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Director
Unsuccessful Somersault (1894)
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Director
Athlete with Wand (1894)
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6
Director
Cock Fight, No. 2 (1894)
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Director
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
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Director
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894)
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6
Director
Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
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6
Director
Annabelle Sun Dance (1894)
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6
Director
The Cock Fight (1894)
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Director
Ruth Dennis (1894)
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Director
Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (1894)
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Director
Blacksmith Scene (1893)
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6
Actor
Horse Shoeing (1893)
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Director
The Barbershop (1893)
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Director
Man on Parallel Bars (1892)
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Director
Fencing (1892)
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Director
Wrestling (1892)
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Actor
A Hand Shake (1892)
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6
Actor
Dickson Greeting (1891)
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5.33
Director
Newark Athlete (1891)
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6
Director
Men Boxing (1891)
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6
Director
Monkey and Another, Boxing (1891)
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Director
Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud (1891)
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Director
Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop (1891)
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Director
Duncan Smoking (1891)
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Director
Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)
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Director
Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890)
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Director
Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890)
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Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1860-08-03
Deathday1935-09-28 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceLe Minihic-sur-Rance, France
SiblingsAntonia Dickson
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom, France, United States of America
ResidencesUnited States of America, United States of America, England, United Kingdom, France, France
Also Known AsWilliam Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, W.K-L. Dickson, William Dickson, W.K.L. Dickson , WKL Dickson
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