This Date in 1894 – W.K.L. Dickson Receives Patent for Motion Picture Film

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The film: Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894)

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860-1935) filmed Fred Ott’s Sneeze on  January 7, 1894 and it was copyrighted on January 9, 1894.  The film was made to include a sequential arrangement of the still photos inside the March 24, 1894 issue of Harper’s Weekly.

You can see an example of the page from the original article on The Picture Show Man‘s site.