Film/TV

How It Feels to Be Run Over

1900

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Eight frames (in two rows of four) from "How It Feels To Be Run Over." The top four show a carriage full of people traveling along the road approaching the camera, while the bottom four read "Mother will be pleased."

“Mother Will Be Pleased”: "How It Feels to Be Run Over" (1900)

One of the earliest uses of intertitles, in this fin-de-siècle accident picture we can observe cinema discovering new forms of communication.

by Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on October 6, 2022

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