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What if there was an old-timey joke and we took it as fact? That happened! One "fact" people know about early films is that audiences panicked at oncoming trains but it actually started out as a joke, as we see in the 1901 British comedy THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE CINEMATOGRAPH.
May 7, 2025, 10:48 PM
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