Jack's Joke (1913)

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.

Released Feb. 7, 1913 6 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.practical-joke, imdb.deaf, imdb.numerous-handsome-men, imdb.talking-pictures, imdb.pre-war, imdb.victorian-fashion, imdb.tuxedo

Production Companies: The American Talking Picture Co., Inc., Edison Company

Country: United States
Languages: English