Film · Edison · 1902
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Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show
19Leave it.
Porter's rube is the American copy of Paul's earlier countryman joke.
Take controlThis scores 19. Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Say which film you are watching before anyone laughs. Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show is Edwin S. Porter's 1902 picture for Edison, and it is the American copy of the earlier British countryman joke. Josh watches a picture and tries to join it, fight it, and court it. A house can watch it. The joke is the man who cannot tell a picture from a room.
It is also a picture about pictures, which is the only reason I stayed with it on a tired night. The laugh is at the rube. You are not meeting a neighbor you owe. You are watching a copied gag about a man who treats the screen as a room.
Journal
Keep Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 19. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Buddy
31 instead of 19
Buddy is still a comedy film, and it scores 31 instead of 19. What you gain is household: The word friend is the bait.
The eight
- 1Industry
No job is done; he tries to join, fight, and court a screen.
- 1Household
Courting a picture is the gag, not a marriage or a child.
- 1Piety
Nothing stops him; he cannot tell a picture from a room.
- 2Courage
He tries to fight the screen, and the risk is only the joke.
- 2Republic
A public show is the setting, and he owes that room nothing.
- 2Temperance
Join, then fight, then court: each mistake invites the next.
- 3Truth
He can't tell picture from room, and this reel is the later copy.
- 3Stewardship
What it leaves is an American copy of the earlier British rube joke.
Where to watch
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