The Countryman and the Cinematograph

The Countryman and the Cinematograph

1901
1min

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.

The Countryman and the Cinematograph

Storyline

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.
    Released
    January 1901
    Runtime
    1min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    English
    Production
    Robert W. Paul, Paul's Animatograph Works
Cast
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