SCFZ poll: William KL Dickson

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Polling the films of director William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

The rules:

- your list can include no more than half of the Dickson films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you can list the maximum of five.

- i'll assume ballots are ranked unless you tell me otherwise. unranked ballots are fine.

- deadline for ballots: next Tuesday, in seven days, whatever day that is

- if anyone is watching films for these polls, then i'll extend the deadline up to three days, if someone requests an extension

- next poll: whoever posts the first ballot in this thread is free to nominate the director we poll next, unless you've nominated in this round already (everyone should get a chance). Already nominated this round: greennui, bure, roscoe, kanafani, greg x, silga, oscarwerner, john ryan, mrcarmady, umbugbene, evelyn

umbugbene created an index on letterboxd of all of our previous polls here: letterboxd.com/umbugbene/list/index-of-all-scfz-director-polls/

one rule for nominees: at least 3 scfzers need to have seen 10+ of a nominee's films, or at least 4 scfzers need to have seen at least 8 of the nom's films, so if it isn't clear if that will be the case, we'll confirm that's true before moving forward

if 24 hours pass after a poll opens, and no one eligible to nominate has posted a ballot, then i'll nominate someone, and then we'll start over, and everyone will be able to nominate again

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Launch of the ‘Oceanic’
Panoramic View of Conway on the L & NW Railway
Monkeyshines no 1
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Irish Mail - L & NW Railway - Taking Up Water at Full Speed

seen four but will def watch more for the poll... edit: seen eight... edit again: seen 22

[greennui]

78.

Warships at Sunset
Four Warships in Rough Seas
Launch of the 'Oceanic'
Crissie Sheridan
Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway

Aside from producer, Dickson's also been credited as the "director" of many of the segments in The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902) on letterboxd.

https://vimeo.com/394961682

I just put it in the spot.

Here's all the individual clips:
https://letterboxd.com/cormacjones/list ... ng-images/

[Monsieur Arkadin]

I think I've only seen 3. I'll try to watch a few more.

Dickson Experimental Sound Film.

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a few more.

m arkadin, you can pick our next director if you like!

[Monsieur Arkadin]

m arkadin, you can pick our next director if you like!

I don't know if I have many we haven't gotten to yet. How about Hollis Frampton?

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Seen 17

Ok ttyl

[Holymanm]

Zilcho

[Lencho of the Apes]

Monkeyshines 1
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Sandow
Rip's Twenty Year Sleep

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Monkeyshines No.2
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Blacksmith Scene
The Barbershop
Fred Ott's Sneeze

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i assume sad scrooge meant he's seen 17 frampton, not 17 dickson? if so, and if m arkadin has seen 7+, we'd just need one more person with 7+ frampton seen to go ahead with a poll. i've only seen 4, so i can't help, but if anyone has seen at least 7, please reply here!

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I meant Dickson

[Monsieur Arkadin]

I've got 13 Frampton.

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oh ok if scrooge meant dickson (don't want to vote for any?) then we're still two frampton viewers short of a poll, i'll give it 24 hours to find at least one more and if not, we'll try someone else

[greennui]

26 Frampton

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i've now seen 7 frampton, so he meets the poll criteria - i'll start the hollis frampton poll tomorrow!

[Searchlike]

Great picks, greennui! Those warships films have no right to be that beautiful.

1. Monkeyshines, No. 1
2. Launch of the ‘Oceanic’
3. A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
4. Four Warships in Rough Seas
5. Dog Pulls Cart in front of Mill

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Seen 50.

1. Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway (1898)
2. Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed (1898)
3. Les Parisiennes (1897)
4. Annie Oakley (1894)
5. Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (1894)

"An Englishman born in France with family ties in the USA, W.K.L. Dickson's work in cinema was as international in scope as his background. He inherited skills in painting and music, was educated in the classics, and trained in the sciences. Hired by Thomas Edison as an electrical engineer, his strong interest in photography led Edison to assign him as the principal experimenter in the development of the Edison Kinetograph and Kinetoscope, the first commercially successful motion picture camera and viewing machine." – excerpt from Encyclopedia of Early Cinema

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doubtless this will be our oldest #1 finisher in any of our polls:

results
1. Monkeyshines no 1 (1890) — 13 pts
2. Launch of the ‘Oceanic’ (1898) — 12 pts
3. Panoramic View of Conway on the L & NW Railway (1898) — 10 pts
4. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) — 9 pts
5. Four Warships in Rough Seas (1900) — 6 pts
6. Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895) — 5 pts
6. Warships at Sunset (1900) — 5 pts
6. Irish Mail - L & NW Railway - Taking up Water at Full Speed (1898) — 5 pts
6. Monkeyshines no 2 (1890) — 5 pts
10. A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (1898) — 3 pts
10. Les Parisiennes (1897) — 3 pts
10. Blacksmith Scene (1893) — 3 pts
13. Annie Oakley (1894) — 2 pts
13. Crissie Sheridan (1897) — 2 pts
13. The Barbershop (1894) — 2 pts
13. Sandow (1896) — 2 pts
17. Dog Pulls Cart in Front of Mill (1898) — 1 pt
17. Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (1894) — 1 pt
17. Rip’s Twenty Years’ Sleep (1896) — 1 pt
17. Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894) — 1 pt

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posted to letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... -poll-262/