Car Crusher (1965)

Every car dies sometime. See here the last station for cars. Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. Good footage of a car scrapyard. C/Us of mangled cars, panning shots of piled up smashed cars and a car on fire. Man breaks up a car using a crowbar then cranes pick up car bodies to transport them to the crusher. “Men have made millions in this business“ states the narrator. Various shots of cars being moved around and crushed. “You can’t afford to be sentimental over that old jalopy“ we are told. Cuts exist - see separate record. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and G