This is a film by the British filmmaker, R. W. Paul, who was, according to most people, the King of Humor. This short is no exception-it's a film about how people reacted to the first animated pictures. This chap here appears not to have seen a movie before. He appears to be engrossed with the images on the screen, and doesn't know the difference between reality and fiction.
Sadly, this film survives as a fragment, as does Paul's "Come Along Do!" The footage we've got is about 20 seconds. A few mildly amusing things happen and that's it. Apparently the original film ended with the countryman tearing down the screen and fighting with the showman projecting the films, after becoming enraged when seeing himself on the screen. I'm guessing the original was a minute, as most films at the time were.
Thus I can't give this one a higher rating, as what's here is too brief to be really funny. In it's original form I'm sure it would've made a nice little comedy, because what's here is actually pretty good.
Sadly, this film survives as a fragment, as does Paul's "Come Along Do!" The footage we've got is about 20 seconds. A few mildly amusing things happen and that's it. Apparently the original film ended with the countryman tearing down the screen and fighting with the showman projecting the films, after becoming enraged when seeing himself on the screen. I'm guessing the original was a minute, as most films at the time were.
Thus I can't give this one a higher rating, as what's here is too brief to be really funny. In it's original form I'm sure it would've made a nice little comedy, because what's here is actually pretty good.