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Fencing (1892) -- Ever wonder what it's like to duel with a sword or rapier?
Boxing (1892) -- Timothy Bradley shows us one of the most unique training routines he uses to get ready for a big fight.
Boxing (1892) -- Kendall Holt has some fun behind the scenes during a shoot with Showtime Sports.
Imperial Japanese Dance (1894) -- A charming representation of the Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. (from the Edison Catalog)
Carmencita (1894) -- Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.

Overview

Date of Death:
28 September 1935, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK more
Contact:
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Mini Biography:
Born in France to British parents, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson stayed... more
Trivia:
Pictured on one of a set of four 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps honoring... more
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Alternate Names:
Laurie Dickson | W.K.L. Dickson | William Kennedy Laurie Dickson | William Dickson | William Kenedy Laurie-Dickson

Filmography

Producer:
  1. Lockhart's Performing Elephants (1899) (executive producer)
  2. Amann (1899/II) (executive producer)
  3. Fencing Contest from 'The Three Musketeers' (1898) (executive producer)
  4. Good Night (1898/I) (executive producer)
  5. Parisienne Girls (1897) (executive producer)
  6. The Tramp: Milk White Flag (1896) (producer)
  7. Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (1896) (executive producer)
  8. Little Egypt (1896) (executive producer)
  9. American Falls from Bridge, Niagara Falls (1896) (executive producer)
  10. An Arrest (1896) (executive producer)
  11. Inaugural Parade, 71st Regiment, New York (1896) (executive producer)
  12. Sandow (1896) (producer)
  13. Chinese Laundry Scene (1895) (producer)
    ... aka Robetta and Doretto, [No. 2] (USA)
  14. Elsie Jones (1895) (producer)
    ... aka Elsie Jones, No. 1 (USA)
  15. Robetta and Doretto, No. 1 (1895) (producer)
    ... aka Opium Den (USA)
    ... aka Opium Joint (USA)
  16. The Rixfords, No. 1 (1895) (producer)
  17. The Rixfords, No. 2 (1895) (producer)
  18. Billy Edwards and the Unknown (1895) (producer)
  19. Elsie Jones, No. 2 (1895) (producer)
  20. John W. Wilson and Bertha Waring (1895) (producer)
  21. New Bar Room (1895) (producer)
    ... aka Barroom Scene (USA: reissue title)
  22. Robetta and Doretto, No. 3 (1895) (producer)
  23. Dance (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Frank Lawton (USA)
    ... aka Trio (USA)
    ... aka Trio Dance (USA)
  24. Finale of 1st Act, Hoyt's 'Milk White Flag' (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Milk White Flag (USA: short title)
  25. Fire Rescue Scene (1894) (producer)
  26. The Widder (1894) (producer)
    ... aka The Widow (USA)
  27. Topack and Steele (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Cleveland and Harrison (USA)
  28. Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Sandow, No. 1 (USA)
    ... aka Sandow, the Modern Hercules (USA: informal title)
    ... aka Sandow: The Strong Man (USA)
  29. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Fred Ott's Sneeze
  30. A Bar Room Scene (1894) (producer)
  31. Amateur Gymnast, No. 2 (1894) (producer)
  32. Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894) (producer)
  33. Annabelle Sun Dance (1894) (producer)
  34. Annie Oakley (1894) (producer) (uncredited)
  35. Armand D'Ary (1894) (producer)
  36. Athlete with Wand (1894) (producer)
  37. Band Drill (1894) (producer)
  38. Bertoldi (Mouth Support) (1894) (producer)
  39. Bertoldi (Table Contortion) (1894) (producer)
  40. Boxing (1894) (producer)
  41. Boxing Match (1894) (producer)
  42. Bucking Broncho (1894) (producer) (uncredited)
  43. Buffalo Bill (1894) (producer)
  44. Buffalo Dance (1894) (producer) (uncredited)
  45. Caicedo (with Pole) (1894) (producer) (uncredited)
    ... aka Caicedo, King of the Slack Wire (USA: copyright title)
  46. Caicedo (with Spurs) (1894) (producer)
  47. Carmencita (1894) (producer)
  48. Cock Fight, No. 2 (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Cock Fight (USA: DVD title)
  49. Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers
    ... aka The Corbett-Courtney Fight (USA)
  50. Cupid's Dance (1894) (producer)
  51. Dogs Fighting (1894) (producer)
  52. Edison Employee Picnic (1894) (producer)
  53. Fancy Club Swinger (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Club Swinger, No. 2 (USA)
  54. Fred Ott Holding a Bird (1894) (producer)
  55. French Dancers (1894) (producer)
  56. Glenroy Bros., No. 2 (1894) (producer)
  57. Hadj Cheriff (1894) (producer)
  58. Highland Dance (1894) (producer)
  59. Men on Parallel Bars (1894) (producer)
  60. Miss Lucy Murray (1894) (producer)
  61. Organ Grinder (1894) (producer)
  62. Oriental Dance (1894) (producer)
  63. Rat Killing (1894) (producer)
  64. Ruth Dennis (1894) (producer)
  65. Sioux Ghost Dance (1894) (producer)
  66. The Barbershop (1894) (producer)
  67. The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's) (1894) (producer)
  68. The Carnival Dance (1894) (producer)
  69. The Cock Fight (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Cockfight (USA)
  70. The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (1894) (producer)
  71. The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show' (1894) (producer)
  72. The Wrestling Dog (1894) (producer)
  73. Trained Bears (1894) (producer)
  74. Trapeze (1894) (producer)
  75. Unsuccessful Somersault (1894) (producer)
    ... aka Amateur Gymnast, No. 1 (USA)
  76. Whirlwind Gun Spinning (1894) (producer)
  77. Wrestling Match (1894) (producer)
  78. Horse Shoeing (1893) (producer)
  79. A Hand Shake (1892) (producer)
  80. Boxing (1892) (producer)
  81. Fencing (1892) (producer)
  82. Man on Parallel Bars (1892) (producer)
  83. Wrestling (1892) (producer)
  84. Dickson Greeting (1891) (producer)
  85. Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop (1891) (producer)
  86. Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud (1891) (producer)
  87. Duncan Smoking (1891) (producer)
  88. Men Boxing (1891) (producer)
  89. Monkey and Another, Boxing (1891) (producer)
  90. Newark Athlete (1891) (producer)
  91. Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890) (producer)
  92. Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890) (producer)
  93. Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890) (producer)
Cinematographer:
  1. Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage (1903)
  2. Pope Leo XIII Passing Through Upper Loggia (1903)
  3. Cock Fight, No. 2 (1903)

  4. A Dip in the Mediterranean (1899)
  5. Harbor of Villefranche (1899)
  6. Admiral Dewey (1899)
  7. Jack Tars Ashore (1899)
  8. Officers of the 'Olympia' (1899)
  9. 'Sagasta', Admiral Dewey's Pet Pig (1899)
  10. Wreck of the 'Mohican' (1899)
  11. Wreck of the S.S. 'Paris' (1899)
  12. King John (1899)
    ... aka Beerbohm Tree, the Great English Actor (USA)
  13. M.H. Pope Leo in a Chair (1898)
    ... aka Pope Leo XIII in Chair, No. 1 (USA: copyright title)
  14. The Vatican Guards, Rome (1898)
  15. Columbia Bicycle Factory (1897)
  16. Butterfly Dance (1897)
  17. American Falls, Goat Island (1896)
  18. American Falls, Luna Island (1896)
  19. Canadian Falls, from American Side (1896)
  20. Canadian Falls: Panoramic View from Michigan Central R.R. (1896)
  21. Canadian Falls: Table Rock (1896/I)
  22. Canadian Falls: Table Rock (1896/II)
  23. Li Hung Chang, 5th Avenue & 55th Street, N.Y. (1896)
  24. Li Hung Chang at Grant's Tomb (1896)
  25. Li Hung Chang Driving Through 4th St. and Broadway (1896)
  26. Lower Rapids, Niagara Falls (1896)
  27. McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio (1896)
    ... aka William McKinley at Canton, Ohio (USA)
  28. Niagara Gorge from Erie R.R. (1896)
  29. Panorama of American & Canadian Falls, Taken Opposite American Falls (1896)
  30. Parade, Americus Club, Canton Ohio (1896)
  31. Parade, Sound Money Club, Canton, O. (1896)
  32. Pointing Down Gorge, Niagara Falls (1896)
  33. Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
  34. Taken from Trolley in Gorge, Niagara Falls (1896)
  35. Upper Rapids, from Bridge (1896)
  36. West Point Cadet Drill (1896)
  37. Sandow (1896)
  38. West Point Cadet Cavalry (1896/I)
  39. West Point Cadet Cavalry (1896/II)
  40. Imperial Japanese Dance (1894)
  41. Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894)
  42. The Barbershop (1894)
  43. Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop (1891)
  44. Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud (1891)
  45. Duncan Smoking (1891)
  46. Men Boxing (1891)
  47. Monkey and Another, Boxing (1891)
  48. Newark Athlete (1891)
  49. Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)
  50. Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890)
  51. Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890)
Director:
  1. Rip Van Winkle (1903/I) (uncredited)

  2. King John (1899)
    ... aka Beerbohm Tree, the Great English Actor (USA)
  3. Pope Leo XIII Being Carried in Chair Through Upper Loggia, No. 101 (1898)
  4. Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing Surrounded by Swiss Guards, No. 107 (1898)
  5. Pope Leo XIII in Canopy Chair, No. 100 (1898)
  6. Pope Leo XIII in Carriage, No. 102 (1898)
  7. Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104 (1898)
  8. Pope Leo XIII Seated in Garden, No. 105 (1898)
  9. Pope Leo XIII Walking Before Kneeling Guards (1898)
  10. Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1 (1898) (as William Kenedy Laurie-Dickson)
  11. Pope Leo XIII in Carriage (1898)
  12. M.H. Pope Leo in a Chair (1898)
    ... aka Pope Leo XIII in Chair, No. 1 (USA: copyright title)
  13. Place de la Concorde (1897) (as Laurie Dickson)
  14. A Newsboys' Scrap (1897)
  15. Musical Drill; Troop A., Third Cavalry (1897)
  16. He and She (1897) (as William Kennedy Laurie Dickson)
  17. Fire Department, New Haven, Conn. (1896)
  18. Sound Money Parade (1896/II)
  19. The Sound Money Parade (1896)
  20. Winchester Arms Factory at Noon Time (1896)
  21. Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896) (uncredited)
  22. Rip's Toast (1896) (uncredited)
  23. Serpentine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
  24. Stable on Fire (1896)
  25. A Hard Wash (1896)
  26. A Watermelon Feast (1896)
  27. Dancing Darkies (1896)
  28. Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896) (uncredited)
  29. Sandow (1896)
  30. The Gay Brothers (1895)
  31. Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (1894)
    ... aka Sandow, No. 1 (USA)
    ... aka Sandow, the Modern Hercules (USA: informal title)
    ... aka Sandow: The Strong Man (USA)
  32. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
    ... aka Fred Ott's Sneeze
  33. Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894)
  34. Annie Oakley (1894) (uncredited)
  35. Athlete with Wand (1894)
  36. Buffalo Dance (1894) (uncredited)
  37. Caicedo (with Pole) (1894) (uncredited)
    ... aka Caicedo, King of the Slack Wire (USA: copyright title)
  38. Carmencita (1894)
  39. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) (uncredited)
  40. Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (1894) (uncredited)
  41. The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight (1894)
  42. Blacksmith Scene (1893) (uncredited)
    ... aka Blacksmith Scene #1 (USA)
    ... aka Blacksmith Shop (UK: informal alternative title)
    ... aka Blacksmithing (USA: informal alternative title)
    ... aka Blacksmithing Scene (USA)
    ... aka The Blacksmith's Forge (UK: informal alternative title)
  43. Dickson Greeting (1891)
  44. Men Boxing (1891)
  45. Newark Athlete (1891)
  46. Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)
Writer:
  1. Rip Van Winkle (1903/I) (uncredited)

  2. Sandow (1896) (writer)
Soundtrack:
  1. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) ("The Chimes of Normandy" (1877))
Music Department:
  1. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) (musician: violin) (uncredited)

Additional Details

Other Works:
(book; with Antonia Dickson) "History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope and Kinetophonograph". Facsimile of the 1895 edition. Manchester, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0405016115 more
Publicity Listings:
1 Print Biography more

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