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The '?' Motorist

19063 minUnited Kingdom
FantasyComedyScience fiction

Synopsis

A couple fleeing a policeman drives up a building and into the sky. Their car circles celestial bodies before returning to earth, where one more transformation helps them evade the consequences of the chase.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
2:21
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Walter R. Booth · Public domain

This copy runs shorter than the reference runtime. Editing and playback speed can differ between editions.

DirectorsWalter R. Booth

Behind the scenes

Walter R. Booth extends a road comedy through trick photography and miniature spectacle. The car becomes capable of treating walls, clouds and planetary rings as parts of the same route.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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