Women's styles

SUMMARY
Based on the newspaper comic strip by "Pop" Mormand, featuring a husband oppressed by his wife's obsession with high society and consumer fashion.
These two samples are from a series begun in September 1915 based on the Keeping Up with the Joneses newspaper comic by "Pop" Momand. The films begin with "out of the inkwell" drawings of the sort seen in Winsor McCay films and later elaborated by Max Fleischer. Like other comic strips and animated films of the era, notably Bringing Up Father (published from 1912; filmed 1916-18), Keeping Up with the Joneses features a husband oppressed by a wifes obsession with high society and consumer fashion. The series ended abruptly in February 1916 after its animator, Harry S. Palmer, lost a patent infringement suit brought by John Randolph Bray over the use of transparent celluloid sheets.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Mutual Film Corp., [1915].
NOTES
Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.
SUBJECTS
Fashion--United States--Drama.
Women's clothing--United States--Drama.
Husbands--United States--Drama.
Wives--United States--Drama.
Comedy--Animation--Short.
RELATED TITLES
Keeping up with the Joneses
DIGITAL ID
animp 4065 hdl.loc.gov/loc...