Old Snuff Video, infact the oldest earliest surviving motion pictures…

What am I talking about? Well, I was doing a search on the term snuff and found a link to Fred Ott’s Sneeze, which in reality is the earlist surviving snuff video, as well as being the earlist surviving motion picture!

Fred Ott was an employee of Thomas Edison’s laboratory in the 1890s. His likeness appears in two of the earliest surviving motion pictures – Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (a.k.a. Fred Ott’s Sneeze) and Fred Ott Holding a Bird – both from 1894.

In Fred Ott’s Sneeze, we see Fred dressed smartly in suit and tie, standing, moustashioed and holding a snuff bottle and handkerchief in his right hand.

He brings his left hand to his nostril and takes a pinch of snuff, he then violently sneezes and the snuff video ends.

Of course it’s silent, but if there had have been sound, you could easily imagine that the snuff induced sneeze was a real hum-dinger!

Anyway, the snuff video is clipped below.

The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of Dickson, one of the earliest film pioneers. It was filmed within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, in the USA, which is widely referred to as “America’s First Movie Studio”. It was filmed between January 2, 1894 and January 7, 1894 and was displayed, at the time, through the means of a Kinetoscope.

Visit the above links if you want to find out anything further on the earliest surviving motion picture of Fred Ott’s Sneeze, and now you can amaze your friends down the pub by telling them that it actually is a snuff video!

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Just found a couple of Zuka Snuff videos posted on YouTube.

The first is a short presentation on the history and idea behind Zuka snuff and shows the launch of Zuka at a German beer festival.

It has interviews with various people who’ve tried Zuka snuff and also interviews a couple of newspaper reporters who like the idea of Zuka snuff.

The second is a short video on how to use Zuka Snuff. Set to funky music, the video goes through the ‘how to use’ process for Zuka snuff bullets.

Snuff Store stocks both Zuka Black and Zuka Zee snuff varieties, in bullet form.

Zuka Snuff Video

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A Snuff video featured on BBC News Look North back in October 2007, has recently been uploaded on the main BBC News site.

The video initially shows Wilsons Of Sharrow’s factory and a interview with a member of Wilsons Snuff, who talks about snuff users getting younger in age in the UK and that for example, the average age of a snuff user in Switzerland is 24 years old.

The reporter then goes to a pub in Whitby Yorkshire, which has started selling snuff behind the bar since the smoking ban came into force. The reporter speaks to the LandLady of the pub and interviews several pub regulars, one of whom says that he’s given up smoking in favour of taking snuff.

The reporter then ‘in the interest of journalistic accuracy’ tries out a tobacco free snuff, which she describes as being ’pleasant… refreshing and having a nice flavour…’

The reporter ends the video with the comment; ‘…with no danger of passive inhalation, the snuff renaissance looks set to flourish…’

Click BBC Snuff Video to view.

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Bavarian snuff video is a short clip taken in various locations in Germany of people using nasal snuff.

In the video, you’ll see Hans ‘the master snuffer’ snuff Gletscher Prise in a bar, as well as another snuff user taking nasal snuff at work.

Hans has a interesting snuff taking technique, he taps out a large ‘pinch’ of Gletscher Prise, then creates a line of snuff expertly on the back of his wrist, and then has a double snuffing method of sniffing the snuff with both nostrils over the line of snuff on his wrist… It’s a bit difficult to explain, so watch the snuff video below.

To view the video on You Tube click Bavarian Snuff.

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