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A Wringing Good Joke
(1899) United States of America
B&W : 50 feet
Directed by James H. White
Cast: (unknown)
Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / Cinematography by Edwin S. Porter. / © 22 April 1899 by Thomas A. Edison. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in the Edison Black Maria studio in [?] March to mid-April? 1899. An Edison remake of A (W)ringing Good Joke (1899). Website-IMDb lists the release date as December 1900 in error.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Edison Films, March 1900, page 35] Grandpa sits nodding in his arm chair in the kitchen where a woman is at work over a wash tub. Small boy plans mischief. She is called away from her work, and while she is talking at the door, small boy ties a string from the tub handle to grandpa’s chair, which suddenly tips over backward, upsetting the tub, soap suds and clothes all over him. The small boy dances in wicked glee; especially when the woman, in trying to help the old man up, slips on a piece of soap, and herself falls into the mess.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 29 March 2010.
References: Leyda-Before p. 41; Musser-Edison pp. 496-497 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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