Filmography: Edison-Ott Sneeze (1894)

As part of this website’s annotated filmography of all works shown at the 2014 Orphan Film Symposium, the descriptions below are for items shown as part of this presentation:  Dan Streible, “A New Look at an Old Sneeze: Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze,” 9th Orphan Film Symposium, Obsolescence, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Mar. 31, 2014. Includes live accompaniment by Stephen Horne. 27 min. Audio here.  Recorded in January 1894, Fred Ott’s Sneeze (as it came to be known) was not seen as a moving image until reanimated from still photographs to 16mm film in 1953. The many film histories written before and