The Countryman and the Cinematograph [SEP] director
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
The Countryman and the Cinematograph (AKA: "The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures") is a 1901 British short silent comedy film, directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring a stereotypical yokel reacting to films projected onto a screen. The film, "is one of the earliest known examples of a film within a film," where, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "the audience reaction to that film is as important a part of the drama as the content
"A Railway Collision" (1900)
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- "Cheese Mites; or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant" (1901)
- "The Countryman and the Cinematograph" (1901)
- "The Devil in the Studio" (1901)
- "The Haunted Curiosity Shop" (1901)
- "The Magic Sword" (1901)
- "An Over-Incubated Baby" (1901)
- "Scrooge, or, Marley's