Summary

Experimental film fragments made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise kinetograph camera, using 3/4-inch wide film. Features Fred Ott's Sneeze: the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States in 1894. In the five-second film one of Thomas Edison's assistants, Fred Ott, takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes.

Source Bridgeman Images
Footage Number 1073071
Title Men Boxing, Newark Athlete and Fred Ott's Sneeze - early experimental Edison films, 1891 and 1894
Description Experimental film fragments made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise kinetograph camera, using 3/4-inch wide film. Features Fred Ott's Sneeze: the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States in 1894. In the five-second film one of Thomas Edison's assistants, Fred Ott, takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes.
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