Jack's Joke

1913 Comedy

A comic sketch that features two players who think each one is deaf, causing them to shout. Part of the Edison Kinetophone Collection. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of creating talking pictures. Unlike previous systems, in which actors would be required to lip sync to preexisting recordings on camera, the Kinetophone was one of the earliest film technologies to record sound at the same time as the image.

Cast

ActeurRol
Arthur Housman Ned Brown
Nellie Grant Bess
Edward Boulden Jack Jones
Alice Washburn Aunt Jane
Cora Williams Maggie, the Maid

Crew

RoleName
Director Allen Ramsey
Producer Thomas A. Edison

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