William K.L. Dickson experimental Sound Film, 1894 The earliest known sound film. You can see Dickson standing in the background there.
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W. K-L. Dickson is a key figure in the practical development of cinematography. He was born in France of English-Scottish parents, and emigrated to the United States in 1879. Joining Thomas Edison in 1883, he quickly rose to become one of his senior associates. Work on motion pictures began in 1888, and continued – with many interruptions – for several years.
After many experiments, Dickson captured scenes of real life with his camera, and reproduce them through his invention, called the Kinetoscope. Unfortunatelly the invention wasn’t complete but Dickson kept experimenting and made this short wilm, which became the first
step in legendary history pf cinema.