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Movie poster: Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze

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1894 · 1 min Documentary
4.9 / 10 · TMDB

A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.

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Year 1894
Country United States of America
Genre Documentary
Director William Heise
Runtime 1 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.9/10 (101 votes)

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The film construct relies on pure documentation, exploring the new medium's capacity to capture and replay motion. There is no narrative, only the magic of a photograph come to life, preserving a fleeting act.

What lingers after viewing is a sense of witnessing cinema's birth, when motion itself was the spectacle. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: William Heise

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