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1860 - 1935
William K.L. Dickson
Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
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... Read full bio →
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Dickson Experimental Sound Film
William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
1894
1m
8.0
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.
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