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'?' Motorist, The (1906)
 

Synopsis

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A motor car runs over a policeman. When he tries to catch it, it runs up the side of a house, into the sky, round the moon, round the rings of Saturn, and falls back to earth outside the police court with a crash which causes all the court officials to rush out to see it. The car has changed into an innocent-looking horse-and-trap, but as it moves it changes back to a motor car and the police give chase anew.