FRED OTT’S SNEEZE

🎬 Film & TV Production | Assistant Director

Film history, behind-the-scenes, and production facts. From the movies that started it all to modern sets 📽️

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Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894) 🎥

The first motion picture copyright!

Produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company on a Kinetoscopic Record using 35mm film. Directed by William K.L. Dickson, on January 9th, 1894. This is the birth of what we know as cinema today. 🎞️

#cinema #film

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@Ze3k7 @TouchlineX Yes. Not a high boot… at all

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@Gibboanxious Francis Ford Coppola wanted Al Pacino for Michael Corleone from the start after seeing his stage work, but Paramount strongly resisted. Studio execs called him too short, unknown, and “scruffy,” pushing instead for big stars like Robert Redford and Jack Nicholson

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@ATRightMovies Robert De Niro, a shy kid who found acting at age 10, dropped out of HS at 16 to study with Stella Adler. Film debut in an uncredited role in Brian De Palmas The Wedding Party (1963). Later found his broke out role in Mean Streets (1973) with Scorsese. The rest is history…

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@lauren_w67 I worked on this show in beautiful Montana! The Madison Season 1, a New York family's life unravels after a tragedy; they process their grief while vacationing in rural Montana, where they explore human connection amid their profound sorrow. Streaming on Paramount+ now!

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@ATRightMovies Right before Best Picture, Emma Stone won Best Actress for La La Land. A PwC accountant accidentally kept the duplicate Best Actress envelope and handed it to Beatty when approached. Beatty received the wrong envelope, duplicate Best Actress card reading, Emma Stone, La La Land

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@DiscussingFilm Who remembers Nicholas Hoult in his break out role as Marcus Brewer in “About a Boy” (2002)? Brilliant

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@DiscussingFilm Ultra-low budget film made for roughly $750,000–$1 million (Barker’s biggest budget to date) It was shot over about 3.5 weeks, mostly in the Los Angeles area. The director even helped paint sets due to the tight resources and about 90-95% of effects were practical

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@TheCinesthetic A tiny VFX team with no formal training. Nearly 500 visual effects shots were handled by a core of about 5 people. They were friends and colleagues who worked from home/bedrooms during the pandemic. 🌭🔥

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@ATRightMovies Coppola nearly lost his mind making Apocalypse Now. He had a full nervous breakdown, contemplated suicide, screamed at the jungle regularly, and was convinced the film would ruin him. The studio thought he was insane. He emerged from the jungle with a masterpiece.🔥🎥

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@THR Her earliest on-screen acting was on TV: a small uncredited background role as a high-school student in a 2001 episode of The Sopranos

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@THR Lady Gaga’s come a long way from her first credited film role as La Camelion, in Machete Kills (2013) directed by Robert Rodriguez, where she played a shapeshifting assassin

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@DiscussingFilm Star Wars, the original trilogy, was mostly filmed in the United Kingdom at Elstree Studios. The bulk of interior and studio work, including for Death Star, Millennium Falcon, Rebel bases, Cloud City, Jabba’s palace, and more. This was the main production hub for all three films.

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@MetalManiacFox

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@MetalManiacFox What happened to your left shoe? 👟

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@28mnthslater Night of the Living Dead (1968).

A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States

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@RetroMoviesDB

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@Gibboanxious 👌

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@TuskTreasures VHS collection 👌

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@XFilesAesthetic Like finding out your childhood best friends have been dating without telling you