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Jan 7 1894

Happy 130th anniversary, Fred Ott.

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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894

Copyright by W. K. L. Dickson; shot by William Heise. Jan. 9. 
Performer: Edison machinist and BFF Fred Ott. 
Edison Kinetographic Theater, West Orange, New Jersey. 

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Happy 130th anniversary.  

Read the deep media archaeology done during 2012-2023 on the Orphan Film Symposium blog. Dan Streible, “Fred Ott Sneezes, Twice,” Jan. 7, 2023. https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2023/01/07/fred-ott-sneezes-twice/

Film Historiography filmography, thus far . . .

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NYU CINE-GT 1015 Film History/Historiography filmography.

Here’s the early cinema we’ve seen thus far, including the compilation films that include films made before 1908. 

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894 (W.K.L. Dickson, Edison, 1894)

Public Domain (Hollis Frampton, 1972)
consists of these films, in this order, all from 16mm prints in  the Paper Print Collection.

  •             Alone (AMB, 1904)
  •             Baby in a Rage (AMB, 1902)
  •             Bubbles (AMB, 1904)
  •             Bull Fight, no. 3 (Edison, 1898)
  •             Deaf Mute Girl Reciting “Star Spangled Banner” (AMB, 1902)
  •             Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894 
  •             Electrocuting an Elephant (Edison, 1903)
  •             Elevated Railroad , New York (AMB, 1903)
  •             An Execution by Hanging (AMB, 1905)
  •             Kindergarten Ball Game (AMB, 1904)
  •             Ludlow’s Aerodrome (AMB, 1905)
  •             M. Lavelle, Physical Culture, no. 1 (AMB, 1905)
  •             Ostriches Running, no. 1 (Edison, 1898)
  •             Razing a Brick Building (AMB, 1902)
  •             Union Iron Works (Edison, 1898)
  •             Weighing the Baby (AMB, 1904)

The Film of Her (Bill Morrison, 1996) includes exerpts from these PPC titles.
            •  The Cavalier’s Dream (Vitagraph-Edison, 1898)
            •  A Spiritualist Photographer (Le Portrait Spirite, Méliès, 1903)
            • Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (Edison, 1894)
            • Monkeyshines no. 2 (1890)
            • Hadj Cheriff (Edison, 1894)
            • [Athlete with Wand] (Edison, 1894)
            • Electrocuting an Elephant (Edison, 1903)
            • Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (Edison, 1902)
            • The Animated Picture Studio (AMB, 1903)

A frame from 16mm copy of THE CAVALIER’S DREAM (1898) vs. a 2016 digital photograph by George Willeman (LOC) of the original paper print.

Niver vs. Walls (Bill Morrison, 2016),
with Flag Dance (AMB, 1896) and Panoramic View of the White Pass Railroad (Edison 1899)
Time and Tide (Peter Hutton, 2000) which begins with Down the Hudson (1903)
Statue of Liberty (Edison, 1898);
Waterfall in the Catskills; Falls of Minnehaha (Edison, 1897)
American Falls Goat Island (Niagara Falls); Panoramic View of Niagara Falls (AMB, 1903)
Circular Panorama of Horse Shoe Falls Winter (Niagara Falls)  (Edison, 1904)
Captain Nissen Going through Whirlpool Rapids (Edison, 1901)
Down the Hudson (AMB, 1903)
A Trip Down Market Street (Before the Fire) (Miles Bros., 1906)
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (AMB, 1905) G. W. Bitzer
Star Theatre (AMB, 1901)

G. A. Smith (UK) mutli-shot films
• Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)
• Let Me Dream Again (1900)
• Grandma’s Reading Glass (1900)
• As Seen through a Telescope (1900)

Edison, Porter
• The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)
• How a French Nobleman Got a Wife through the New York Herald Personal Columns (1904)
• The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905)
• Coney Island at Night (1905)
• Three American Beauties (1906)

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (Charles Musser, 1982)
films by Porter for Edison unless indicated otherwise. In order of appearance:

  • The Great Train Robbery (1903) excerpts
  • Mr. Edison at Work in his Chemical Laboratory (Wm. Heise and James White, 1897)
  • Corbett and Courtney before the Kinetograph (W. K. L. Dickson, 1894)
  • The Kiss (May Irwin Kiss) (Wm. Heise, 1896)
  • Wreck of the Battleship Maine (Wm. Paley, 1898)
  • Pack Mules with Ammunition on the Santiago Trail, Cuba (Wm. Paley, 1898)
  • Kansas Saloon Smashers (1901)
  • The Capture of the Biddle Brothers (1902)
  • The Finish of Bridget McKeen (1901) two-shot comedy
  • Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King (1901)
  • Sampson-Schley Controversy (1901)
  • President McKinley’s Speech at the Pan-American Exposition (1901)
  • Taking President McKinley’s Body from the Train at Canton, Ohio (1901)
  • The Execution of Czolgosz (1901) actuality + re-enactment
  • Elephants Shooting the Chutes, Luna Park Coney Island, no. 2 (1901)
  • Appointment by Telephone (1902) three-shot comedy, with voiceover
  • Bluebeard (Barbe-Bleue) (Méliès, 1901)
  • Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)
  • A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) (Méliès, 1902)
  • How They Do Things on the Bowery (1902)
  • Life of an American Fireman (1903)
  • Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) with actor D. W. Griffith

    David Shepard, 1971
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTEbqa7jaGU&t=1s