But it's "Sweet Gospel Music" that reveals the shortcomings of his design, involving as it does a fundamental misapprehension about gospel music, which is rarely the sweet, peaceful thing he eulogises here, but the kind of raging emotional torrent he seems unable to access.
"Unfortunately, yoga has been conflated with asana, which is a huge misapprehension," he said.
This confusion of casual violence, dirt-black comedy, and bitter misapprehension is typical of Jones's movie, the effect — and, I suspect, the purpose — of which is to leave us both wistful and soured.
The court found that Deckers did not have a significant reputation in an Australian market which was dominated by Luda Productions, and thus failed the requirements of the Trade Practices Act, regarding public misapprehension of the origin of the manufacturer.
The latter appeared to be labouring under a misapprehension which could only be cultivated by the perpetually daft – namely that to suggest there are better ways of tackling spiralling childhood obesity than bullying your child behind closed doors, is to condone or even promote spiralling childhood obesity.
The fact that they were using instruments at all to accompany medieval vocal music was due to a venerable misapprehension which Leech-Wilkinson traces back to that grandest of high Victorian composers, Sir John Stainer.
On Wednesday Sir Tom Winsor said he had written to admonish Sir Bernard HogandHowe and "corrected a misapprehension which he may have".
Winsor said: "I have written to the commissioner and have corrected a misapprehension which he may have".
The show is a Wunderkammer, indeed, of inspired misapprehensions, which say little about machines and a lot about the foolish, now and then adorable creatures who make and use them.
Any misapprehension is about to be corrected by a new film, Hysteria, which tells the true story of the vibrator's inception.
