The Countryman and the Cinematograph

Release Date: 1901-10-01

Runtime: 1

Languages: No Language

Rating: 5.4

Votes: 44

Genres: Comedy

Director: Robert W. Paul

Description: 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 alternat...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.Read More

Production Companies:

Robert W. Paul

Paul's Animatograph Works