Jack's Joke

6min

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

Edward Boulden

Edward Boulden

Jack Jones
Cora Williams

Cora Williams

Maggie, the Maid

Release date

7th Feb 1913

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English