The Automatic Motorist (1911)
- Directed by
- Walter R. Booth
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An inventor and a honeymooning couple are driven by a robot chauffeur on a chaotic journey through outer space and under the sea. The film uses special effects to create its wild ride.
whimsicalplayfulfast-pacedsurreallightheartedfantasticalold-fashioned
What happens
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." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Inventions of an Idiot (1909)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.