Fred Ott's Sneeze

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Movie
Original title Fred Ott's Sneeze
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1894
length 9 seconds
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director William KL Dickson
script William KL Dickson
production Edison Manufacturing Company
camera William Heise
occupation

Fred Ott's Sneeze (alternatively Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze ) is an American film from 1894 . The documentary is toneless and black and white. In the film's Fred Ott , an assistant Thomas Edison while sniffing and sneezing to see. The film is considered to be the first closeup shot and the oldest film in history registered with the United States Copyright Office and protected with a paper print . In 2015 the film was listed in the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically particularly important" .

action

Fred Ott's Sneeze (1953 version)
Copyright Deposit Card with 45 individual images

The only actor in the film, Fred Ott, sniffs a pinch of snuff, which he brought to his nose on his left thumb. Ott is dressed in a shirt, a tie, a vest and a jacket, in his right hand he holds a handkerchief, which he does not use in the subsequent act of sneezing. After sniffing tobacco, Ott has to sneeze twice, and the film ends.

production

Fred Ott's Sneeze was recorded in the period from January 2, 1894 to January 7, 1894 in the Black Maria film studio in West Orange . The film was published on January 9, 1894, it was intended for viewing with the aid of a kinetoscope . The production was taken over by the film company Edison Studios . The recordings were filmed with a kinetograph , the aspect ratio is 1.33: 1.

Fred Ott's Sneeze was made after a request from Harper's Weekly magazine , which printed frames from this film in March 1894.

It was not until 1953 that the 45 individual images contained on the Copyright Deposit Card were copied by Kemp Niver onto 16 mm film and could now be viewed as film. Since the number of pictures was too small to show the process shown in the picture, four copies of each individual picture were joined together. The fact that, regardless of the four identical images in the resulting film sequence, there is hardly any jerking to be seen, is an indication that Fred Ott's Sneeze was recorded with a much higher frame rate than the later usual 16 frames per second.

A full film version on 35mm, the additional through 36 frames, the 1894 Harper's Weekly were printed, was completed and in the Ott now sneezes a second time, was prepared by the Library of Congress in 2013 and first in 2014 on the Orphan movie Symposium listed .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the German IMDb. Accessed on December 13, 2009
  2. ↑ Gordon Hendricks : A New Look at an 'Old Sneeze'. In: Film Culture. , No. 22/23, 1961, ISSN  0015-1211 , pp. 90-95.
  3. ^ Kemp R. Niver : From Film to Paper to Film. The Story of the Library of Congress Paper-Print Conversion . In: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 1964, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 248-264, here p. 254, JSTOR 29781138 .