Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze / taken & copyrighted by W.K.-L. Dickson, Orange, N.J. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze / taken & copyrighted by W.K.-L. Dickson, Orange, N.J. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze / taken & copyrighted by W.K.-L. Dickson, Orange, N.J.
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Frederic P. Ott is the subject caught mid-sneeze, in a short film shot in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio in early January 1894. W.K.L. Dickson, who led much of Edison's motion picture work, made the film for publicity, and its still frames were used to illustrate an article in *Harper's Weekly*. The clip runs about five seconds, and the print was copyrighted under Dickson's name from Orange, New Jersey. It shows how early experimenters turned a brief, involuntary bodily movement into a subject for scientific study and popular display.
| Created / published | c1894 Jan. 9. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin printing-out paper print ; 7 x 5 in. |
| Genre | Motion study photographs 1890-1900.Gelatin printing-out paper prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 44732Y U.S. Copyright Office. The related movie was made for publicity purposes, as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in Harper's weekly. It is 5 seconds long and was filmed ca. January 2-7, 1894, in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. Title from item. Library has two copies. DLC Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 172. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Ott, Frederic P. Sneezing--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,056 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109121 |
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