Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze / taken & copyrighted by W.K.-L. Dickson, Orange, N.J. – Historic Photograph Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze / taken & copyrighted by W.K.-L. Dickson, Orange, N.J.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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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 caught mid-sneeze in this print, one frame from a short motion study made at Thomas Edison's laboratory in New Jersey. W.K.L. Dickson, who led much of the Kinetoscope work, filmed the sequence in early January 1894 inside the Black Maria, Edison's black studio built to record performers against a dark backdrop. The five-second film was made largely for publicity, and its frames were reproduced as still pictures to accompany an article in Harper's Weekly. The print shows how the studio treated ordinary movement as a subject in its own right, well before projected motion pictures became common.
| 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 | 1,169 × 1,481 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218711 |
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