Film

Jack's Joke

1913 · 6m · Comedy

IMDb

6.5

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.

Arthur Housman

Ned Brown

Nellie Grant

Bess

Edward Boulden

Jack Jones

Alice Washburn

Aunt Jane

Cora Williams

Maggie, the Maid

• Allen RamseyDirector
• Thomas A. EdisonProducer

1913 Kinetephone Sound Film - Jack's Joke

Release date

February 7, 1913

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

6m

Genres

Comedy