Jack's Joke

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Allen Ramsey

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

7 February 1913

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Arthur Housman

  Ned Brown

• Nellie Grant

  Bess

• 

  Edward Boulden

  Jack Jones

• 

  Alice Washburn

  Aunt Jane

• 

  Cora Williams

  Maggie, the Maid