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.

• DirectorRobert W. Paul
• Release1 October 1901
• GenreComedy
• Duration0h 1m
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  5.4
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• Productions

  Robert W. Paul, Paul's Animatograph Works