The Countryman and the Cinematograph

1901 · Directed by Robert W. Paul · 1 min · comedy film, silent film

★ 5.4/10 · 44 ratings on TMDB

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.