A Child's Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car (1965)

A comic promotional mock documentary about a boy and his uncle who visit the Silverstone Racetrack during filming of the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965).

Director:

Ronald Spencer

Writer:

Denis Norden

Stars:

Gus Agosti, Maurice Askew, Albert R. Broccoli

Cast

Credited cast:
Gus Agosti	...	Himself
Maurice Askew	...	Himself
Albert R. Broccoli	...	Himself
Joan Davis	...	Herself
Ted Moore	...	Himself
Denis Norden	...	Himself - Narrator
Luciana Paluzzi	...	Herself
Bert Ross	...	Himself
Harry Saltzman	...	Himself
Bob Simmons	...	Himself
Terence Young	...	Himself

Storyline

A comic promotional mock documentary about a boy and his uncle who visit the Silverstone Racetrack during filming of the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965).

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Plot Keywords:

comic | racetrack | filming | aston martin | mockumentary | 

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Genres:

Short | Comedy

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

1965 (UK)

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ford Motor Company, Littleton Park Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

17 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Ford Motor Company who produced this tongue-in-cheek promotional mock-documentary short about the movie Thunderball (1965) actually provided a number of the vehicles for the actual movie.

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Connections

Referenced in Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (1995)

User Reviews

What could be more fun than blowing up . . .

. . . Uncle Dennis? "Chris," alternately the godson or the nephew of "Uncle Dennis," wants to play James Bond, Jr. James Bond, a.k.a. Agent 007, is most famous for careening around public highways putting thousands in danger while looking for excuses to play Demolition Man. Planes, helicopters, volcanoes, entire islands, you name it--the bigger the object, the more Bond is hell-bent on destroying it. Any parent or guardian who would expose an impressionable child to James Bond is a Menace to Society, as A CHILD'S GUIDE TO BLOWING UP A MOTOR CAR from Ford Motors Corporation proves beyond the shadow of a doubt. Ford is most famous for patrolling its assembly lines with gun-toting goons under the direction of Harry "Mad Dog" Bennett (to prevent ANY communication between workers on the line) when its namesake founder was alive (and not hobnobbing with Hitler), and subsequently for exploding Firestone tires (old Mr. Firestone being BFFs with Henry Sr., back in the day, going so far as to cross-breed the clans). Certainly these are James' kind of folks, so who better to use James as a role model for the wee ones than Ford Motors?