stackyFACTSRegistered by Thomas Edison in 1894, the oldest surviving copyrighted motion picture is merely a five-second clip of a man dramatically sneezing. It was originally captured as a promotional demonstration for the kinetoscope, an early peep-hole viewing machine.
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