Produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, the short stars John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, and Anita Hendrie.

The following summary of the comedy is published in the April 3, 1909 issue of the New York trade publication The Film Index:The Joneses have moved and taken an apartment in one of a row of houses which are identically alike.

[3]The screenplay, written by Frank E. Woods, was produced at Biograph's main studio, which in 1909 was located inside a large renovated brownstone mansion in New York City, in Manhattan, at 11 East 14th Street.

Filmed in two days, on February 24 and 25, director Griffith and cinematographer "Billy" Bitzer used interior sets at the studio and shot exterior scenes on location along Perry Street in the city, just a short distance west of Biograph's facility.

All the players in this short were unidentified in their roles on screen and in print, as were the rest of Biograph's relatively small staff of "photoplayers" and crew members in other productions at the time.

Twelve of those films were directed by Griffith and starred the duo of Cumpson and Lawrence, who portrayed a married couple named "Mr. and Mrs. Bibbs" in their first screen performance together but thereafter as the husband and wife characters "Eddie and Emma Jones" for the rest of the series.

"The stories", Brown writes, "were pure slapstick comedy, straight from vaudeville, where usually a misunderstanding escalated into the kind of comic violence which audiences loved.

[11]After its release on March 29, 1909, the film and its split-reel companion circulated to theaters throughout the United States and continued to be promoted for weeks in film-industry publications and then into the early months of 1910 by newspapers in small, remote communities.

A reviewer of the short in the April 3 issue of the New York trade journal The Moving Picture World found the neighborhood "complications" caused by Mr. Jones' confused antics "funny even if overdone.

Recycling comments about the comedy published in the March 27, 1909 issue of The Moving Picture World, the newspaper asked, "We are wont to say poor Jones, but are we sincere?"

[3][e] Submitted by Biograph to the United States government in 1909, shortly before the film's release, the roll is part of the original documentation required by federal authorities for motion picture companies to obtain copyright protection for their productions.