Why Mrs. Jones got a divorce / - Public domain portrait print

"The scene opens by showing a pretty cook mixing bread in the kitchen. Jones comes in unexpectedly from a trip and carries a dress suit case. He inquires for his wife and is told by the cook that she is absent. Jones is hungry and asks for something to eat. The cook is very obliging and Jones becomes unruly, chuckles the cook under the chin. The cook puts her arms around Jones' neck and leaves finger imprints of flour on his back. This is where the trouble commences. Jones' wife suddenly appears and accuses Jones of making love to the cook. Jones denies it. She scornfully points to the finger marks on Jones' back. Jones still denies it. The wife becomes angry and seizes the pan of flour and turns it upside down on Jones' head, spoiling his best Sunday clothes. Jones escapes and the cook is discharged. A very funny picture. 75 feet"--Edison films catalog.
D1727 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 17Jan1900; D1727.
Duration: 1:09 at 16 fps.
Filmed December 1899 to early January 1900, in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1015) 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. 572; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 365; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 63 [MI]; American Film Institute catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 1887-1888.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEB 9314 to FYA 1138.