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        Ashlee Family Films: Old Car, Bexley (c1960)

        Slapstick short as a customer finds himself taken for a ride when he splashes out on an old banger in south-east London.

        Amateur film 1960 9 mins Silent

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        Logo for London's Screen Archives

        Overview

        Part of the Ashlee Family Films and – judging by a passing bus – shot on Victor Ashlee’s home turf of Bexley, this slapstick film features a man’s trials after he spends Ј2 on a second-hand car. Lots of mugging but some good jokes, and also wonderful incidental moments such as a scene at a petrol station, where a lab-coated attendant fills up with Cleveland Benzole Mixture. It also demonstrates a contempt for British car industry that predates Fawlty Towers by several years.

        Bexley Local Studies and Archives