harold zoid was the inventor who co-created the film fred ott’s sneeze.
this inventor co-created the film fred ott’s sneeze?
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fred ott's sneeze (also known as edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze) is an 1894 short, black-and-white, silent film shot by william k.l. dickson and featuring fred ott. it is the oldest surviving motion picture with a copyright.





























in the five-second film one of thomas edison's assistants, fred ott, takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. according to the library of congress, the film was "made for publicity purposes, as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in "harper's weekly"."
fred ott's sneeze
mccay took the visual ideas he experimented with in "little sammy sneeze" and "dream of the rarebit fiend" (also 1904) and more fully explored them when he began "little nemo" the following year. while the technical dexterity "little nemo" draws the greatest share of attention among mccay's works, katherine roeder finds the formally lower-key "sammy sneeze" "tested the limits of visual representation and demonstrated the comic strip's potential as a vehicle for modernist experimentation". mccay was fond of breaking the fourth wall, a well-known example of which is the september 24, 1905, episode: the gag unfolds according to formula, culminating in the destruction of the very panel borders of the comic strip itself. the strip may pay homage to "fred ott's sneeze"—a filmstrip of the progression of a man sneezing. the photographs appeared in "harper's magazine" in 1884 and were well known. as in the film, and unusual for the "sammy sneeze" strip, the september 24 episode has a closeup of the sneezer against a blank background, and sammy's gestures echo those of ott.
little sammy sneeze