Fred Ott's Sneeze
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1894 film by William Kennedy Dickson
Key facts
- Directed by
- William K.L. Dickson
- Produced by
- William K.L. Dickson
- Starring
- Fred Ott
- Distributed by
- Edison Manufacturing Company
- Release date
- January 7, 1894 ( 1894-01-07 )
- Running time
- approximately 5 seconds
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Silent
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Has part
- film frame
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Director
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Screenwriter
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Cast member
- Fred Ott
- Producer
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Production company
- Edison Studios
- Cinematographer
- William Heise
- Filming location
- New Jersey
- Duration
- 4
- FilmAffinity ID
- 632198
- Image
- Fred Ott sneeze 1894.gif
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- title
- Fred Ott's Sneeze
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Edison Manufacturing Company
- Commons category
- Fred Ott's Sneeze
- publication date
- 1894-01-01
- copyright status
- public domain
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Encyclopedic overview
Fred Ott's Sneeze (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze) is an 1894 short, black-and-white silent film shot by William K.L. Dickson and featuring Fred Ott. According to the Library of Congress, it is the second oldest surviving U.S. motion picture to be copyrighted, although it has since entered the public domain.
The film was shot on January 7, 1894; however the film's copyright was filed two days later. In the approximately five-second film, one of Thomas Edison's assistants, Fred Ott, takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. According to the Library of Congress, the film was "made for publicity purposes, as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in Harper's Weekly." The published Harper's Weekly version is slightly longer than what now survives on film, and depicts a second sneeze.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fred Ott's Sneeze” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.