Sneeze face, cheese mites, and techno Charles Chaplin: San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2014′s ‘Amazing Tales from the Archives’ (photo: Fred Ott’s ‘sneeze face’ in the short film ‘Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze’) The "Amazing Tales from the Archives" presentations at the 2014 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which ran May 29-June 1, focused on three subjects: "A New Look at an Old Sneeze" nearly bordered on redundancy. Fred Ott’s sneeze, officially known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, was filmed by the Edison Manufacturing Company in 1894 and is one of the oldest surviving "motion pictures." The approximately one-minute short film illustrates a man — Thomas Edison’s assistant Fred Ott — in the throes of sneezing. While historically a cinematic event and notable as the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States, Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze never does quite illustrate the potential of what film can do.
- 8/11/2014
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
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