The Countryman and the Cinematograph
1901
· ⭐ 5.3 · Votes: 32
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.