William Kennedy Dickson

William Kennedy Dickson
Frame from the 1891 Dickson Greeting, featuring William Kennedy Dickson, in the first American film shown to a public audience.
Born
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

(1860-08-03)3 August 1860
Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France
Died28 September 1935(1935-09-28) (aged 75)
Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Occupations

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

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