the unappreciated joke
A short film from Edison Studios (AKA Edison Motion Picture Studio), a film studio owned by inventor Thomas Edison, which, according to Wikipedia, produced over 1,000 silent films until they shut down in 1918. 54 were full length. The rest were shorts like this one.
All of the films produced at Edison Studios are now in the public domain.
the internet archive
“The Unappreciated Joke” is sourced from the Internet Archive. If you fall in love with this film, you can find many of Edison Studio’s other silent films there as well.
According to IA’s website, the “Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.”
Also at the Internet Archive, check out The Wayback Machine, a collection of websites saved over time. Can’t find that one website anymore? Try The Wayback Machine!