How It Feels to Be Run Over

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Movie
Original title How It Feels to Be Run Over
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1900
length 1 minute
Rod
Director Cecil M. Hepworth
production Cecil M. Hepworth
occupation
  • Cecil Hepworth: Driver
  • May Clark : Passenger

How It Feels to Be Run Over (Engl. To be How it feels, being run over ) is a one-minute British silent film made in 1900 , directed by Cecil M. Hepworth . As in other instances of the very first films, the film presents viewers with the images of a shocking experience, with no further narrative representation.

action

A carriage comes and goes out of the picture on one side of the field of view. Shortly afterwards, an approaching car deviates from the course and moves directly towards the viewer, i.e. the camera. As they approach, the occupants wave frantically and hope to be able to avert the impending collision. At the moment the car fills the entire frame of the film. Closing subtitles appear in quick succession, each with one word per board: Oh! / Mother / will / be / pleased (in German: "Oh! Mother will be happy").

Film historical significance

The film Our New General Servant by Robert W. Paul from 1898 is said to have had subtitles, but since this is apparently lost , this cannot be verified. In How It Feels to Be Run Over it can definitely be referred to, although strictly speaking it is not an inter-title, but an ending title. They appear to have been hand-scratched directly into the footage.

Missing subtitles

In the original film the subtitles result: “Oh! Mother will be pleased ” . When the footage was found, the subtitle "Mother" was missing . It remains: “Oh! will be pleased “ .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In praise of ... the wow factor at the movies. The Guardian , November 19, 2009, accessed January 21, 2020 .