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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Street Cars and Carbuncles
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Dick Smith (Richard Smith)
Cast: Eddie Barry [the street car conductor], Robert McKenzie [the street car motorman], Eva Novak [the motorman’s daughter], Chester Ryckman [the driver of the busted bus], Bert Roach [the railway president]
L-KO Motion Picture Kompany production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Production supervision by John G. Blystone. / Released 20 August 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Motography, 25 August 1917, page ?] A tale of the quarrels between the jitney driver and the president of the railway. The streetcar is drawn by two skinny mules and manned by a conductor and a motorman, equally as skinny and snug. The people demand service or the jitney driver for them. Then begins a series of stunts whereby the passengers are pulled by threats, breakdowns, and promises, from the jitney to the streetcar. Finally they both go over the side of a bluff, an equal wreck of debris side by side. The passengers peer out of the windows wearing the never-never-again expression.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 January 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
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