The Countryman and the Cinematograph
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
5.3 The Countryman and the Cinematograph
1901, 1 m
Comedy
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.