The Countryman and the Cinematograph

The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)

October 1st, 19010h 1min

Comedy
54%

Overview

A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.


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