Just watched this early short directed by Edwin S. Porter on the UCLA Preserved Silent Animation site. It's actually a live-action film about the title character playing a game of cards with a neighbor and his wife. Since this was in the movies' beginning, the scenes are all stationary with no dolly movement whatsoever, just occasional cuts. And the story is one anyone can predict if one has seen many subsequent filmings of card games. What makes this one a little interesting-and why it's on an animation site-is that the intertitles are done here by having the letters rolling back & forth and up & down before staying still long enough for you to read them. Also, you see a couple of animated hands shaking during one of those titles. And I found it fascinating that at least one scene was repeated which may have been a mistake in editing. Like I said, the story isn't much for me but those moving intertitles provided enough interest for me to say How Jones Lost His Roll is worth a look for silent animation buffs.