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How to Stop a Motor-Car
Also known as [How to Stop a Motor Car], [Policeman and Automobile]
(1902) England
B&W : 100 feet
Directed by Percy Stow

Cast: Cecil M. Hepworth, T.C. Hepworth, Claude Whitten

Hepworth Film Manufacturing Company production. / Produced by Cecil M. Hepworth. / Released June 1902. / [?] Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? / The film was released in the USA by [?] American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and/or Edison Manufacturing Company and/or Kleine Optical Company? in February 1903.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 April 2010.

References: Butler-Cinema p. ? : Website-IMDb.