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dandu
12-22-2008, 01:19 PM
Silent Era
Average Jones Bums Out Barney's Beanery (1923)
-LOST-
Average Jones works at the Barney's Bean Factory in Kukamunga, Kansas and destroys the factory by his incompetence.

Jone's Punctured Romance (1924)
Average Jones goes on a date with Penelope, a villain steels Penelope from Jones and so Jones gets on a wild pursuit.

Jones the Magnificent (1924)
Jones ends up committing murder while doing conjuring tricks!

West of East (1925)
Jones goes to the wild west where even the women are dirty crooks.

Choose Your Husbands! (1926)
Jones and Busta Crabapple go to see Penelope and fight for her affection.

Jones Sweepstake Ticket (1927)
Average Jones wins the lottery but loses the ticket, and goes through mayhem chasing after it.

Early Sound Era

On the Downbeat: (1928): Average Jones graduates the police academy and becomes a constable, he ends up unknowingly helping burglars.

Herd of Cows? (1929): Average Jones and Penelope are tired of the city's loud noise and go and have fun on the farm.

The Cartoon that Wasn't: (1929): Average Jones does not see Penelope, nor does a villain steal her. They do not chase each other and there are no characters or backgrounds not even a title card!

Average Jones Clips his Toenails (1929) -LOST-
DIRECTOR: TOM PALMER
Average Jones spends 3 minutes clipping his toenails and sings a song about picking his nose.

Average Jones Walks Down the Street (1929)
DIRECTOR: TOM PALMER
It innocently starts out with Average Jones walking down the street saying hello to the townsfolk, then Tom Palmer got fired and the studio lost so much money over the previous cartoon as well as the boss lost a lot of money in the stock market that everyone had to eat old spam to survive. The cartoons turned out to be really weird, as notable in this, after a sudden change in position, Jones ends up walking to the abyss and dancing with Satan with his minions.

Bad Spam Era

A Whale of a Whopper (1929)
Average Jones drinks all night and arrives home late, he tells penelope a wild story instead of telling the truth.

Jones the Defective Detective (1929)
Average Jones tries to find the phantom murderer, and ends up having to duke it out with a gang of them in an old house!

Ravioli (1930):
Jones gets into some surreal mayhem in Italy!

No Time To Lose! (1930)
Average Jones goes to see Penelope and they go to a wacky club together, Penelope is kidnapped by a villain, Average Jones chases them through a hilly city to a hotel. How will Jones save the day?

Early Color/Late Depression Era
An Experiment in Danducolor (1931):
In the cartoon a wacky stage show occurs with girls juggling in front of a jazz band. Average Jones joins in the fun by doing conjuring tricks and riding a unicycle.

Rags to Rags (1933): Average Jones after a while of being homeless and hungry, gets a job being a janitor for a business. He ends up causing havoc due to his incompetence.

Anything Goes! (1933)
Average Jones puts on a show starting with him and penelope singing anything goes while dancing with penguins. Then Arthur Askey, George Formby Wilson Keppel and Betty cameo, at the end Jones does a magic trick.

The Racist, Sexist, Sacreligious Cartoon (1934)
Average Jones performs in a burlesque show and tells jokes to offend everyone and then undresses and chases after a girl who turns out to be Harpo Marx!

-Will Hayes saw the previous cartoon and visited the creator's house to burn all of Average Jones cartoons. Dillon fled to London, England with all the master prints of the Average Jones cartoons (except Average Jones Bums Out Barney's Beanery, it was left over along with Average Jones Clips His Toenails)and contracted with British Lion film distributors to churn out movies between 1935-1945

Exodus To Great Britain and World War II

It's A Grand Old World (1937)
Average Jones joins a circus band and participates in the action, only to send the tent into space after a failed human cannon show.

Average Jones Joins the Royal Army (1940)
Average Jones tries to avoid the draft but ends up in the army as a private, there, he drives the sergeant nuts. At the end of the film is a public service announcement telling the audience to watch out for unexploded bombs.

POST-HUMERUS ISSUES:
Dillon died in 1969, due to lung failure after laughing so hard at a redrawn version of his painstakingly directed "No Time To Lose" (1930).

All cartoons except for the lost ones were redrawn and colorized in Korea between 1969-1975 under supervision by Fred Ladd. A few of them had weird edits, due to either damaged footage or TV censorship. One example includes
"The Racist, Sexist, Sacreligious Cartoon", which on most copies run around one minute, and is retitled "Stage Fun", it only includes Jones telling a corny non-offensive joke and suddenly he chases a woman with his pants on and goes off camera and crashes into something, then the end title shows.

Average Jones Vs Godzilla (1979) JAPANESE: Godzilla is at it again, destroying Tokyo, who has the power to stop him this time? Average Jones of course, he tells a few corny jokes and Godzilla collapses laughing.

Average Jones, The Next Disco Star (1980) Starring Donna Summers as Penelope and Barry Manalow as Jones: Average Jones starts out as a nobody janitor, who is bad at his job. He gets fired and starts performing at run down theatres, after a few breathtaking performances, he becomes a movie and disco star.
This is actually a compilation of colorized versions of classic cartoons segued and dubbed together to form a new hokey story. There is only one scene of new animation where Jones actually grooves to Donna Summer's Bad Girls and sings along with Penelope for a finale.

MORE TO COME STAY TUNED

Geezil
12-22-2008, 01:42 PM
Oh, good heavens! How could you have left out the one that started it all: Average Jones Bums Out Barney's Beanery (Slumgully Pictorials Studio, Director: J.R. Bumps, 1923)?

Oh, the shock. Oh, the humanities. (etc.)

A. Flea
01-07-2009, 08:42 PM
What about the controversial Average Jones walks down the Street

dandu
01-09-2009, 06:33 PM
I updated the list to include your ideas :D

PudgieDParrot
01-10-2009, 12:05 AM
About "...Bums Out Barney's Beanery" and "...Clips His Toenails"---how exactly were they lost? Did the old nitrate neg just decompose before anyone could do anything about it? That is just sad, very sad...:( :( :(

dandu
01-10-2009, 10:02 AM
Well in 1934, Mr Upton packed all his films in one crate, he left behind Average Jones Clips His Toenails, beacuse it was so bad that he thought it wasn't worth the shipping cost, and he meant to transfer the other but it ended up being left over sadly. So the original nitrate prints deteriorated to the extent of destruction.

A. Flea
01-10-2009, 10:47 AM
If I can make another idea, I'd like to show the rare and infamous: Gojira vs Averiga Joneens (ENG translation Godzilla VS Average Jones).

dandu
01-13-2009, 01:00 PM
Updated The List Again!!

dandu
04-10-2010, 01:07 AM
Thought I might bump this one.

zavkram
04-15-2010, 09:17 PM
Here's one that recently surfaced in St. Petersburg (formally known as "Leningrad"):

"Average Jones and the Five Empty Chambers" (1920)

The authenticity of this badly-decomposed nitrate print (apparently the only one in existence) has yet to be verified. Lobster Films is attempting to scan the print and restore as much of it as possible.

dandu
04-16-2010, 09:20 PM
Oh yes! I read mr Dandu's biography. He was a communist. No wonder why he had to flee America.