An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903)

Directed by

Walter R. Booth

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is run over by a horse and cab in a street accident. He then makes a surprising and miraculous recovery. The film uses simple special effects to create a comic trick.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulcomedicfast-pacedabsurdold-fashionedtrick-filled

What happens

An Extraordinary Cab Accident is a 1903 British silent comic trick film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a gentleman making a miraculous recovery after being trampled underfoot by a horse and cab. The film, "seems something of a step back," "compared with the elaborate special effects fantasies that director W.R. Booth and producer R.W. Paul had already concocted," but according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "more complex special effects might well have worked against the impression Booth and Paul were clearly seeking to create, which is that of a man being genuinely run over by a horse-drawn cab, his body being knocked down and trampled by the horse's hooves." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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