First motion picture with a close-up.
First motion picture to be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
One contemporary account of this two-second film (which was viewed not on a screen but as a film loop in a single-person viewing device) says that it was accompanied by a phonograph recording of a sneeze.
At a run time of five seconds, this is the shortest film to be preserved in the National Film Registry.
Raymond Rohauer, an exhibitor and collector, claimed copyright ownership to every film that entered his collection - and many that didn't. In 1970, the late film preservationist David Shepard decided to poke fun by making "RAYMOND ROHAUER presents The Sneeze", a hilarious parody of Rohauer's extravagant assertions via the use of Ott's starring vehicle and Imitating the style of all Rohauer prints, with long descriptive title cards, including the not-so-unfeasible claim: "Recently, persevering Film Archivist RAYMOND ROHAUER secured the Estate of Thomas A. Edison and so acquired exclusive world rights in perpetuity to all motion picture films produced with sprocket holes." The Sneeze itself only takes up eight seconds at the end.