Jack's Joke

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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Comedy

Duration:

6 minutes

Year:

1913

Director:

Allen Ramsey

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Company:

The American Talking Picture Co., Inc.

Cast:

Ned Brown

Bess

Jack Jones

Aunt Jane

Maggie, the Maid

Crew:

Producer

Director