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1911 British film by Walter R. Booth

The Automatic Motorist
Screenshot from the film
Directed byWalter R. Booth
Production
company
Kineto Films
Release date
  • 1911 (1911)
Running time10 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent

The Automatic Motorist is a 1911 British silent comic trick film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a robot chauffeur taking an inventor and a young honeymooning couple on a wild ride around the planets and under the sea. The trick film is a "virtual remake of The '?' Motorist (1906)," according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "but on a bigger scale."

References

  1. "The Automatic Motorist". MUBI. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  2. "The Automatic Motorist". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  3. Merton, Paul. "How They Laughed". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

External links

Filmography of Walter R. Booth
For Robert W. Paul
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