All on Account of a Transfer

1913 11 minutes Directed by C.J. Williams

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About All on Account of a Transfer

Herr Franz Müller has to cross town on public transport and cannot follow the English. Frank A. Lyons plays him. Mrs. C. J. Williams is the woman he meets, William Bechtel a German passerby, and Edward O’Connor the Irish conductor.

Cast & crew

More about All on Account of a Transfer

C. J. Williams directed Henry W. Otto’s script for Edison. General Film Company released the 200-meter short in the United States on 26 February 1913. It shared a split reel with the Edison documentary The Newest Method of Coaling Battleships at Sea.

Themes

  • A German rider who cannot read the transfer
  • An Irish conductor
  • A split reel with a battleship film
  • Herr Müller
  • streetcar transfer
  • Edison
  • C. J. Williams
  • split reel

Making

Williams builds the joke on a transfer Müller cannot read. The split-reel partner is a Navy coaling film, not another comedy.

Music

Silent.

Preservation

The Museum of Modern Art holds a print.

Notes

  • The Italian filmography names Lyons as Herr Franz Müller and O’Connor as the Irish ticket-taker.
  • Two hundred meters is the published length of the comedy half of the reel.
  • A print is in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
  • The short is in the 2005 compilation Edison: The Invention of the Movies.

Also available

  • Museum of Modern Art
  • Edison: The Invention of the Movies (Kino, 2005)

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