The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures
Directed by Robert W. PaulNot Rated
1901 1m[Comedy](/on-demand/category/comedy), [Short](/on-demand/category/short)5.65.4
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
