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The Countryman and the Cinematograph

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'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 of the film itself."

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