Orgy of Destruction

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

693-1

Date Released

4 Dec 1924

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Pat Hendren
2. 2Prince in Scotland
3. 3Hope for the Housewife
4. 4Orgy of Destruction
5. 5Off to Kenya Colony
6. 6Trial Eights Oxford and Cambridge
7. *Wales Go Down Too!
8. *Lochgelly War Memorial

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "American Auto Salesmen’s idea of ‘picnic’, is hurling ‘junk’ cars over precipice." Crowd watches as men push cars over precipice. Various shots of the cars rolling down a slope, usually catching fire, and landing on a pile of wrecked cars.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Stunts

Length of story (in feet)

57

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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