The Countryman and the Cinematograph
- Movies
- 1901-10-01
- EN
- Released
- 0h 1m
- GB
- Comedy
Production
Robert W. Paul, Paul's Animatograph Works
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.
