William Kennedy Dickson | |
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![]() 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 3 August 1860 Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France |
Died | 28 September 1935 Twickenham, Middlesex, England | (aged 75)
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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.[1][2]