Jack's Joke

Directed by Allen Ramsey

With Arthur Housman, Nellie Grant, Edward Boulden, Alice Washburn and Cora Williams

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.