Fred Ott Sneezes, Twice

Happy January 7th!  Two thousand twenty-three begins with a film premiere of sorts for Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7th, 1894. The day is an anniversary for the milestone of cinema commonly known as Fred Ott’s Sneeze. In 1894, Thomas Edison instructed W. K. L. Dickson to make a demonstration recording of their new Kinetoscope and to send a photographic illustration to Harper’s Weekly, which had requested a sneeze.  This marks the web debut of the Library of Congress restoration, which begins with the familiar footage (first reanimated in 1953) and ends with the additional frames published in Harper’s, March 24,