The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)
01/10/1901 (GB)
Comedy
1m
- 54% (44 votes)
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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.
- Robert W. PaulDirector
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Keywords
- film in film
- silent film
