Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, 1894 contact sheet – Antique Print
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This historic image of Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, 1894 contact sheet brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, 1894 contact sheet
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Fred Ott, an employee at Thomas Edison's laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, sneezes through this sequence, which was filmed in January 1894 at the company's Black Maria studio. It was among the earliest motion pictures made for the Kinetoscope, a peep-show viewer that let one person at a time watch a short film. Edison's team registered the footage for copyright that year as a paper print, and the frames here break a single sneeze into its successive moments. The sequence is worth noticing for how it turns an ordinary, unplanned gesture into a record of a real person's face in motion.
| Original scan | 4,067 × 5,213 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 13462u edison movie |
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