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Explosion of Motor Car

This is a somewhat similar scene to the last, but of a much more elaborate descrption. The picture opens with a view of a quiet country road, with, in the distance coming rapidly forward, a motor car with four passengers. The car comes along at a high speed, and its occupants, recognising friends, wave and raise their hasts, until just as the carriage comes to the centre of the picture, ther is a sudden mishap, followed by a big explosion, which entirely wrecks the motor car and blows the passengers high into the air. A policeman rushes to the spot, and, seeing nothing but wreckage of machinery, searches in the sky with a telescope. He soon sees the bodles falling down, and only runs away in time to escape being hit. When all the pieces have fallen to the ground he comes up again and collects them into classes -so many legs, so many arms, &c.-and we lose sight of him as he enters the results in his official notebook. A bewildering trick film, full of comic interest.

The Era, London, November 24, 1900, p. 27.

Explosion d'un automobile

Un automobile à la campagne s'avance sur la route, rencontre avec des amis et salutations, puis peu après explosion de l'automobile, les voyageurs sont projetés en l'air ; arrivée d'un policeman qui les cherche avec une longue-vue, les corps retombent en morceaux, le policeman se sauve et revient pour ranger les corps et faire son rapport.

GAU 1901-07