Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze / taken & copyrighted by W.K.-L. Dickson, Orange, N.J. – Antique Print
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Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze / taken & copyrighted by W.K.-L. Dickson, Orange, N.J. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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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, an employee at Thomas Edison's laboratory, is caught mid-sneeze in this print, one of the best-known early motion studies. It was taken from a roughly five-second film shot in early January 1894 in Edison's Black Maria studio, and it was produced for publicity, as a series of stills to accompany a Harper's Weekly article on the new moving pictures. W.K.L. Dickson, who did much of the experimental film work at Edison's laboratory, registered the image for copyright from Orange, New Jersey, that same month. The sequence shows how quickly the new camera could freeze a fleeting gesture.
| 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 | 1,142 × 1,449 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217636 |
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