/plb7LmFW3XZipZsk82p34CRRx85.jpg

The Countryman and the Cinematograph

No Tagline

1 Mins

1901-10-01

No Language

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.

Rating

54%

Genres

Cast