that's enough now, ladies and gentlemen. m. devereaux is due at his hotel in half an hour.
there are four auto graveyards like this one in the other boroughs, handling about a thousand vehicles a month. those that aren't claimed are auctioned here once a month.
no. many are involved in crimes and confiscated.  or just abandoned. this is, as you know, your prime source of scrap metal, m. charnier.
notice he will never mention the year of the car.
yes, sir. that man in the dark jacket is our buyer.
it was built in 1917 - and was one of the two heaviest bridges in the world. the arch is still the largest in the world.
two railroads as part of a connecting railway which provided passage from new england to the south. it was actually the first railroad through new york city.
the river at this point is the most dangerous on the east coast. years ago, hundreds of ships went down here.
most new yorkers never notice it - most americans have never heard of it.
mmm.
i'm afraid the rest of ward's island isn't nearly as romantic - a pollution plant, a hospital, a training school for garbage men and that area over there, where the old cars are kept, prior to being processed for shipment to, among other places, the charnier shipping company, of marseilles, france.
oh, it's been abandoned for years.
it was a crematorium.
for dead bodies.
the car was lost sometime this evening. first they send us to pier one -- then they send us here --
in point of fact, m. devereaux is scouting locations for a film for french television. he left the car to look at some point of interest.
mr. devereaux is an extremely important guest of this country. he is working with the absolute cooperation and participation of your government. here are his credentials from the french consulate. unless you wish to see this episode portrayed in his film i suggest you locate his car immediately.
this is m. devereaux.