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The "?" Motorist

The lengths that some people will go to, just to avoid a speeding ticket… in this case to Saturn and back.

Science Fiction 1906 3 mins Silent

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Overview

This eccentrically-titled Robert Paul comedy - made by trick specialist WR Booth - is one of the most iconic of early British films. As Cecil Hepworth did in Explosion of a Motor Car (1900), Booth uses a stop-and-substitute gag, using dummy body parts, for the sequence when a car runs over a policeman. Booth, however, takes it further. As the policeman reassembles himself (Terminator-style!) and pursues the car to a dead end, it drives straight up a building and up to the stars, where it drives around a very Georges Melies-style celestial scene before dropping back to earth and the magistrates' court.

Original title
"?" Motorist
Director
W.R. Booth
Genres
Science FictionTrick film
Released
1906
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English

Subjects

Driving