Jones and His New Neighbors (1909)

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

5 min

Rating

2.5 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married couple called the Joneses deal with the arrival of new neighbors. The comedy follows their interactions with the people next door.

comediclightheartedplayfuleverydaybriskwhimsicalold-fashioned

What happens

Jones and His New Neighbors is a 1909 American silent comedy film written by Frank E. Woods and directed by D. W. Griffith. Produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, the short stars John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, and Anita Hendrie. It is one film in a series of 1908 and 1909 Biograph pictures in which Cumpson and Lawrence performed together as the married couple Mr. and Mrs. Jones. When this comedy was released in March 1909, it was distributed to theaters on a "split reel", which was a single projection reel that accommodated more than one motion picture. It shared its reel with another Biograph short directed by Griffith, the dramatic "thriller" The Medicine Bottle. Original contact-print paper rolls of both motion pictures, as well as projectable safety-stock copies of them, are preserved in the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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