Dickson Greeting

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Dickson Greeting is credited as one of the world's first films. Directed, produced by and starring William Dickson - it simply displays a 3 second clip of him waving. It was filmed on 20 May 1891 in the Photographic Building at Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, in collaboration with Thomas Edison using his kinetoscope. The film would be played at National Federation of Women's Clubs. W. K. Dickson went on to dominate cinema du... more
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  • 1891

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  • 3 s

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William Dickson

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-Anglo-Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Dickson was born on 3 August 1860 in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France...

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