This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Lack of good storyline.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

William Heise and W.K.L. Dickson worked together to record this short for Edison Laboratories. In it, one of the co-workers, Fred Ott, places a bit of something in his nose, making him sneeze. This was one those early shorts, that the Edison group made, where they were basically just messing around. The guys seemed to always be looking for something funny or original to film, and often turned to the men that worked around them to star in front of the camera. This was one of the earliest close-ups, Ott's entire face taking up much of the screen.YOU WILL LIKE THIS FILM, IF YOU LOVED: "The Kiss" (1896) IF YOU HATED: "Contagion"

A man sneezing. It's Fred Ott one of not too many people who appeared in more than one of Dickson's very early short films at the end of the 19th century. It's one of Dickson's shortest works and only runs for like five seconds. But it's movie magic nonetheless. The moment where you feel the sneeze rising inside your nose and there it is: the final moment of release. That felt good, didn't it? Hopefully just a one time thing and not the early symptoms of a nasty cold forcing you to stay in bed the next couple days. In any case, Mr. Ott may want to check his prominent mustache afterward for snot that got stuck. Okay film and feel free to waste five seconds of your life on that one. You can watch it in its entirety the next time you feel a sneeze crawling up.

Watching Fred Ott's Sneeze can be equated to the birth of any new medium. The first music was presumably nothing more than sticks and stones banging together. The first stories, just rough interpretations of daily routines. Even the first video games are, in a way, their medium's version of Fred Ott's Sneeze.Pong, when it was first released, showcased two rectangles and a small square that bounced between them. It was short, simple, and did what it needed to introduce the world to a new medium. As time went on, video games grew into something much bigger - eventually using cinematic techniques like storytelling, camera angles, and even acting. Now, while video game players still consider Pong fun, it is a far cry from the medium it stood at the forefront of.The same can be said in all respects to Fred Ott's Sneeze. While only five seconds long, it did precisely what it set out to do. It was short, simple, and introduced the world to a new medium. Film-making eventually grew into something much bigger... much grander, but its humble beginnings should never be forgotten.From a critical perspective, lighting the scene was clearly difficult - and Ott's clearly fake sneeze mimics the actor's obvious hesitation about appearing in such a strange new medium. In the decades that followed, and people became comfortable in front of the camera, on-screen acting blossomed.Here, in these five short seconds, lies the birth of film-making.

All action, no plot. Still important in the terms of film history. It was the first film made by Thomas Edison on his motion picture camera. I can think of worse ways for kill 2 seconds.