After Susie Barton’s husband invested their nest egg in Time Ferry Services, Ltd., it appears that the only way she’ll ever get anything out of it is by giving a performance in Elizabethan times.

This is the earliest appearance of a time machine—the “Time Ball”—in film that we know of. And based on the name Time Ferry Services, Ltd, it may also be the earliest film mention of a time travel agency.
—Michael Main
Normally, we drift with the current and travel downstream and into what we call the future. Now, if we equip our little boat with a motor, we can speed our passage downstream into the future or, breasting the current, travel upstream to view again those selfsame scenes that were passed by humanity ages ago.

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Variants

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  1. Time Flies by J. O. C. Orton, Ted Kavanagh, and Howard Irving Young, directed by Walter Forde (at movie theaters, UK, 8 May 1944).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by J. O. C. Orton
    Ted Kavanagh
    Howard Irving Young
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . directed by Walter Forde

Translations

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  1. English (possibly subtitled or dubbed).
    El tiempo vuela by J. O. C. Orton, Ted Kavanagh, and Howard Irving Young, directed by Walter Forde.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by J. O. C. Orton
    Ted Kavanagh
    Howard Irving Young
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . directed by Walter Forde

Indexer Notes

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  1. The time machine is the Time Ball.
  2. The proposed time travel agency is Time Ferry Services, Ltd.