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Film Studies: The Basics by Amy Villarejo (Paperback - Oct 31, 2006)

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Excerpt - page 8: "... A very interesting and amusing subject. Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze, (January 7, 1894) / W.K.L. Dickson. Film made for publicity ..."

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The Timetables of American History by Laurence Urdang and Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (Paperback - Nov 27, 2001)

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Excerpt - page 253: "... basketball as an indoor substitute for baseball and football. 5 Edison patents his kinetoscopic camera, which takes moving pictures on a strip of film. ..."

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Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music by Sheila Curran Bernard and Kenn Rabin (Paperback - Sep 29, 2008)

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Excerpt - page 16: "... Building in part on Muybridge's work, Thomas Edison and colleagues set out to create a motion picture camera ..."

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A Short History of Film by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Paperback - April 30, 2008)

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Excerpt - page 7: "... pieces, such as Blacksmith Scene (1893), Horse Shoeing (1893), and Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (better known as Fred Ott's Sneeze, 1894), were deliberately staged ..."

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100 Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by O. Henry (Paperback - Sep 1, 1997)

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Excerpt - page 289: "... to ten.' When Haylocks had exhausted the resources of Mr. Edison to amuse he returned for his valise. And then down ..."

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The Visual Culture Reader by Nick Mirzoeff (Paperback - Dec 22, 1998)

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Excerpt - Table of Contents: "... 1-4 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC 174-5 17.1 Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, 1894 211 18.1 `If I didn't work out' advert 219 ..."

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AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol (Hardcover - Sep 18, 2006)

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Excerpt - page 150: "... The earliest copyrighted film that survives is Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894, which shows Edison employee Fred Ott sneezing ..."

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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition by Linda Williams (Paperback - April 27, 1999)

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Excerpt - page 52: "... way Muybridge's photos were printed in Animal Locomotion. Phillips's article "Record of a Sneeze" accompanies the photos. ..."

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Scientific American: Science Desk Reference by Editors of Scientific American and John Rennie (Hardcover - Sep 16, 1999)

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American Film Institute Desk Reference: The Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Know about the Movies by Melinda Corey and George Ochoa (Hardcover - Nov 1, 2002)

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Excerpt - page 17: "... first one to be copyrighted, on January 7, 1894, was Edison Kinetoscopic Record q1 'a Sneeze, which showed his employee Fred Ott sneezing. A(;0ss 'II IR ..."

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The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William R. Everdell (Paperback - Jul 15, 1998)

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Excerpt - Back Matter: "... Exhibition, 1880-1920. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. . Thomas A. Edison and His Kinetoscopic Motion Pictures. New Brunswick , N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. ..."

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Cinema Year by Year 1894-2006 by DK Publishing and David Thompson (Hardcover - Aug 21, 2006) - Unabridged

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Excerpt - Back Matter: "... 718. 28/03/95 725 Edgar Allan Poe 08/02/09 72 Edison Kinetoscope Record of a Sneeze 07/01/1894 15 Education of Prince, The 18/01/27 184 Edward 1114/09/91 ..."

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