Why Jones discharged his clerks /

"Great hit. Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards are thrown down in great haste and when the employer enters the office the clerks are apparently busily engaged in their work. The boss looks over the mail and then sits down behind an adjacent screen to enjoy the morning paper. A lady suddenly enters the office and, upon inquiring for the broker, is shown behind the screen by one of the clerks. The broker and lady suddenly display considerable affection for each other, and are ardently making love when they are discovered by one of the clerks. He immediately calls the attention of the stenographer and they post themselves upon chairs and engage in looking over the top of the screen. One of the chairs is suddenly tipped over by the office boy and the clerks and screen fall upon the unsuspecting broker. He immediately becomes wrathful, throws off his coat and proceeds to clear out the office. One of the clerks becomes frightened and jumps through the window into the corridor; the other is unceremoniously fired through the door. This is an extremely humorous picture"--Edison films catalog no. 105.
D780 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 9Jan1900; D780.
Duration: 1:25 at 18 fps.
Filmed December 1899 to January 1900, in Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1936) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 571; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 365; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 62-63 [MI]; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 1187.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
paper pos (copies 1 and 2) Received: 1900-01-09; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.
Paper print roll lacking suffix.