The Countryman and the Cinematograph

• Comedy

• 1 Mins
• 1901
• en

• star5.4/ 10

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.