Keeping Up With The Joneses: Women's Styles (1915)
Channel: Screen Prism
Date: 2024-04-02

KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES is an American silent animated film. It's an adaptation of the gag-a-day comic strip by Pop Momand that ran from March 31, 1913, to April 16, 1938. There's also a Men's Styles - https://youtu.be/cqzXJlmtD7I

A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. The simple story lines often parody society's concern with material goods as an indicator of social standing, but the series was not as narrowly focused as the title implies. The Joneses were the McGinis's neighbors, but were not depicted. They were referred to as objects of envy. This is .

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