Fred Ott

Fred Ott's sneeze

Frederick P. Ott (1860; New Jersey October 24, 1936; West Orange, New Jersey) was an employee of Thomas Edison's laboratory in the 1890s. His likeness appears in two of the earliest surviving motion pictures Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (a.k.a. Fred Ott's Sneeze) and Fred Ott Holding a Bird both from 1894.

In the former film, Ott takes a pinch of snuff, which causes him to sneeze.

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