The Countryman and the Cinematograph

Name: The Countryman and the Cinematograph
Rating: 5.4

Not Rated Comedy

Starring: N/A

Writer: N/A

Release Date:
October 1, 1901

Ratings:
5.4 / 10

Director:
Robert W. Paul

Companies:
Robert W. Paul

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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