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.