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  The LOC.GOV Wise Guide : A Sneeze of Historic Proportions
You have probably never thought of a sneeze as being an important part of American history, but one man's particular sneeze is historic.
The recorder or camera became known as a kinetograph and the player as the kinetoscope.
"Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" is the earliest extant copyrighted motion picture in the Library of Congress collections.
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  1894 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 7 - Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria."
Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.
Fred Ott's Sneeze (Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze)
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 The LOC.GOV Wise Guide : Why Do Toes Wrinkle in the Bath?
Prolific inventor Thomas Edison is well represented in "Inventing Entertainment," another presentation from American Memory.
You can read about the "History of Edison Motion Pictures" in a special presentation or the "History of the Edison Cylinder Photograph.".
The novelty of motion pictures made it possible for Edison to capture the public's attention with films of such prosaic events as a man sneezing ("Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze") or a couple kissing ("The Kiss," above).
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Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects.
When films began to tell stories, instead of just record brief events, exhibitors sometimes provided a commentator to narrate the action, but this became unnecessary with the development of printed intertitles containing the actors' dialogue and other written, descriptive material as part of the visual experience.
Edison entered the competition for developmet of a large projector he called the Vitascope.
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Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze, January 7, 1894 / W.K.L. Dickson.
Film made for publicity purposes, as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in Harper's weekly.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p.
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 Top20Film.com - Online Directory for Film Education.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Peter Weir's films Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave and Fred Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith gained critical acclaim, while George Miller's violent futuristic actioner Mad Max was a substantial hit in 1979 and marked the beginning of Australian attempts to target the international market.
The shift that occurred in the 1980s from seeing movies in a theater to watching videos on a VCR, is a move close to the original concepts of Thomas Edison.
Sound is recorded on a separate apparatus from the film and they must be synched up in post-production.
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 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters January 9 in History
"Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters January 9 in History
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