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Mr. Jones at the Ball

19088 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

Mr. Jones splits his trousers at a formal ball and retreats while his wife repairs them. An effort to avoid discovery sends him through a window, where a policeman draws entirely the wrong conclusion.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
7:25
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · D.W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

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  • John R. Cumpson — Original author of portrait was Edison Studios, Bronx, New York, 1911; Photograph of actor John R. Cumpson published in The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Brooklyn, New York), July 1911, p. 3; Internet Archive, San Francisco, California: https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturesto01moti#page/n707/mode/2up/search/Cumpson · Public domain

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