How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)

Directed by

Cecil Hepworth

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A horse-drawn carriage heads toward the camera. The filmmaker gets hit by it. The frame shows text that communicates the character's pain.

joltingbriefplayfulshockingabruptexperimentalamusing

What happens

How It Feels to Be Run Over is a one-minute British silent trick film, made in 1900, and directed by Cecil M. Hepworth. As in other instances of the very earliest films, the film presents the audience with the images of a shocking experience, without further narrative exposition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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