Two Peter Sellers films, which had been thought lost until they were salvaged from a skip, are about to be screened as part of a world premiere event.

Described as the movie equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Dearth of a Salesman and Insomnia is Good for You are two of the earliest examples of actor's work but had been thought permanently lost for almost 60 years.

The discovery of more Peter Sellers films has delighted his fans and after 60 years they will be shown publicly for the first time in Essex.

Filmed two years before Sellers' 1959 breakthrough hit I'm All Right Jack, they were unearthed by film buff Robert Farrow as he checked a skip outside Park Lane Films, the now defunct London-based company which produced them.