A man (Thomas Edison’s assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnOpDWSbyw i find this kinda stuff amazing to find and watch its a very very very short clip more info The earliest surviving copyrighted motion picture, the Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze is a short film made by W. K. L. Dickson in January 1894 for advertising purposes. Often referred to as “Fred Ott’s Sneeze,” this is is one of the world’s earliest motion pictures and America’s best known early film production. The star is Fred Ott, an Edison employee known to his fellow workers in the laboratory for his comic sneezing and other gags. This item was received in the Library of Congress on January 9, 1894, as a copyright deposit from Dickson. Two other Edison experimental films on the Library’s YouTube site - DICKSON GREETING (May 1891) and NEWARK ATHLETE (May or June 1891), predate The Sneeze. The Sneeze was submitted for copyright as 45 frames from the motion picture printed as positive prints on paper rather than as a reel of film. The prints were mounted on cardboard and submitted to the Copyright Office in this form. The video of the Sneeze on loc.gov and YouTube was later rephotographed and turned into a moving image from these mounted frames. SUMMARY Film made for publicity purposes, as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in Harper’s weekly. OTHER TITLES Sneeze Fred Ott’s sneeze
115 years old how cool is that for a film
oh it’s been talked about much before. So what it’s awesome. Anything that brings two of my loves together is great. Cinema and sneezing. I don’t care if it’s posted a million more times.
Oh sorry I should search more but you right its a fantastic peace of history I have watched it so many times. He realy looks like he is enjoying his snuff sneeze. Lol
Dave’s video link:Snuff Video
Thanks snuffegnugen
What about the French machine that they got working with a verse of ‘Claire De Lune’, 130 years old. Just amazing. The weird thing is that the recordings were taken as ‘sound autographs’ with no machine made to play them back ever made. Apparently they were lazer scanned.
Hi snuffster are you out tonight ?? Wow realy sound autographs and then lazer scanned that’s amazing were is the info etc on that one
Try BBC news online - I think I saw it there some time ago. EvenGoogle/Youtube might throw it up.
http://www.firstsounds.org/ It’s the website of the guys who ‘decoded’ the Phonoautograms.