Summer/August 2006 Catalog > Photo Collection > Movies
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Lot 452: Frederick Ott, the First Film Star
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Marvelous image of Frederick P. Ott, Edison employee who worked on Edison’s original motion picture device the Kinetoscope. Ott is most famous for being the first film star, in Edison’s ground breaking short, "The Sneeze." Ott is pictured with the most “modern” motion picture device at Edison’s home on the date of the inventor’s birthday in 1929. Original paper caption. AP stamp on verso. EX+. 8x10”.
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