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List Of William Kennedy Dickson Films
List of films on which William Kennedy Dickson has worked. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dickson, William Kennedy Male actor filmographies Director filmographies British filmographies Scottish filmographies Silent film directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kennedy Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British people, British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. Early life William Kennedy Dickson was born on 3 August 1860 in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France. His mother was Elizabeth Kennedy-Laurie (1823?–1879) who may have been born in Virginia. His father was James Waite Dickson, a Scottish artist, astronomer and linguist. James Dickson claimed direct lineage from the painter William Hogarth, and from Judge John Waite, the man who sentenced Charles I of England, King Charles I to death. Inventor and film innovator At age 19 in 1879, William Dickson wrote a letter to American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison seeking employment. He was turned down. That same year Dickson, his mother, and two sisters moved from Britain to Virginia. In 1883 he was finally hired to work at Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 1888, Ediso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Ott's Sneeze
''Fred Ott's Sneeze'' (also known as ''Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze'') is an 1894 short, black-and-white, silent film shot by William K.L. Dickson and featuring Fred Ott. It is the oldest surviving motion picture with a copyright. In the approximately five-second film, which was shot in January 1894, one of Thomas Edison's assistants, Fred Ott, takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. According to the Library of Congress, the film was "made for publicity purposes, as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in ''Harper's Weekly''." In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Production The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of Dickson, one of the earliest film pioneers. It was filmed within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boxing Cats (Prof
''The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)'', or simply ''Boxing Cats'', is an 1894 American short silent film directed by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise, and starring Henry Welton. It depicts a boxing match between two cats, each of which is wearing a pair of boxing gloves. The two cats were members of Welton's touring "cat circus", which reportedly also featured cats riding bicycles. ''The Boxing Cats'' was filmed in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey, on 35 mm. The film has been described as a precursor to cat videos popular on the Internet. See also * '' Men Boxing'', an 1891 film also directed by Dickson and Heise References Further reading * External links * ''The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)''at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing (1894 Film)
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Bertoldi (Table Contortion)
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Bertoldi (Mouth Support)
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A Bar Room Scene
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The Barbershop
''The Barbershop'' is an 1894 American short narrative film directed by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise. It was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company at the Black Maria Studio, in West Orange, New Jersey. The film was one of the first created for the Kinetoscope The Kinetoscope is an precursors of film, early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but it introduced the basic .... Plot In a barbershop, a barber gives a man an incredibly fast shave as two other men sit on each side of the chair. References External links * * 1894 films 1890s American films American silent short films American black-and-white films Films shot in New Jersey Films directed by William Kennedy Dickson Films directed by William Heise 1894 short films {{short-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band Drill
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Athlete With Wand
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Armand D'Ary
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Annie Oakley (1894 Film)
''Annie Oakley'' is an 1894 black-and-white silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. Synopsis The film shows Oakley performing trick shooting as she was known for in her live shows. The first scene was of Oakley shooting her Marlin 91 .22 caliber rifle 25 times in 27 seconds. There is also a scene of her shooting composition balls in the air. The man assisting her is likely her husband, Frank E. Butler. Both were veterans of ''Buffalo Bill's Wild West'' show. Cast * Frank E. Butler as Self (uncredited) * Annie Oakley as Self (uncredited) Background The film is most notable for being Annie Oakley's first appearance on film. Thomas Edison had wanted to see if his kinetoscope could capture the smoke from a rifle, so he employed Oakley to film some of her shooting. In 1894, kinetoscopes were installed in 60 locations in major cities around the country. Viewing the films cost a nickel. It was filmed on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
