William K.L. Dickson
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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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William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson · W.K-L. Dickson · William Dickson · W.K.L. Dickson · WKL Dickson
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King John
1899 · Movie
Annie Oakley
1894 · Movie
The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898 · Movie
Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898 · Movie
The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898 · Movie
Blacksmithing Scene
1893 · Movie
Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
1898 · Movie
The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
1898 · Movie
Hadj Cheriff
1894 · Movie
Danse serpentine (Annabelle)
1895 · Movie
Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
1898 · Movie
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1894 · Movie