FILM DIRECTOR

William Kennedy Dickson

1860 - 1935

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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Kennedy Dickson has received more than 244,131 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. William Kennedy Dickson is the 333rd most popular film director (down from 284th in 2019), the 1,963rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,699th in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Film Director.

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Over the past year William Kennedy Dickson has had the most page views in the with 29,894 views, followed by French (7,374), and Spanish (4,393). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (76.49%), Malagasy (67.93%), and Armenian (63.86%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 333 out of 2,041. Before him are Leo McCarey, George Roy Hill, Jane Campion, Gustav Ucicky, Samuel Fuller, and Jan de Bont. After him are Anthony Minghella, Jean Rouch, Chen Kaige, Claude Sautet, Sofia Coppola, and Tobe Hooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 46. Before him are Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Otto Jespersen, Jules Laforgue, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Waldemar Haffkine, and Sergey Sazonov. After him are Friedrich Naumann, Charles Curtis, Michel Zevaco, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Bruno Liljefors, and Kolë Idromeno. Among people deceased in 1935, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 49. Before him are Ma Barker, Kurt Tucholsky, Abraham Isaac Kook, Gareth Jones, Jean Béraud, and Valerian Kuybyshev. After him are Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Bernhard Schmidt, Edoardo Agnelli, Juan Vicente Gómez, Alexander von Linsingen, and Meletius IV of Constantinople.

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In France

Among people born in France, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 1,963 out of 6,770. Before him are Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta (1866), Jean Bodel (1165), Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (1249), Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717), Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1669), and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740). After him are François Girardon (1628), David d'Angers (1788), Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (1557), Jean Rouch (1917), Félix Gouin (1884), and Richard, Duke of Burgundy (858).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, William Kennedy Dickson ranks 38. Before him are Frank Darabont (1959), Julien Duvivier (1896), Germaine Dulac (1882), Just Jaeckin (1940), Philippe de Broca (1933), and Francis Veber (1937). After him are Jean Rouch (1917), Claude Sautet (1924), Jean Girault (1924), Guy Hamilton (1922), François Ozon (1967), and Jacques Audiard (1952).

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Filmography

Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Director
William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.
Aug 31o 18946.206 / 10
Monkeyshines, No. 1
Director
Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows a blurry figure in white standing in one place making large gestures and is only a few seconds long.
Nov 21o 18904.876 / 10
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Director
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left across an unadorned stage. Many of the prints were distributed in hand-tinted color.
Apr 1o 18955.885 / 10