WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

He_who_lurks Even if you don't want to know how it feels to be run over, this is still a very creative little film. Made by the Hepworth Manufacturing Company it is one of the first uses of self-reflectivity in film, as both the camera and the cameraman have an important role in the joke. Even the people of today couldn't think up such a creative idea, and we'd never actually know how it feels to be run over, (unless, of course, we really did get run over, but let's hope not).The camera is set up so we're looking down the country road. A horse and buggy passes to one side and goes off the range of the camera. Down the middle of the road comes a motor car. It swerves toward the camera and collides with the cameraman, thus making us feel as though we are being run over. I am glad we can know how it felt without it being a painful experience, so it's a good thing they made this. Well, enough of that, let's get on.What follows is a series of titles cards that flash on the screen, delivering the punchline: "Oh, Mother will be pleased!" These titles cards are believed to be the first intertitles ever put in a film. So for 1900 this is a pretty clever film that not only has a remarkable use of subtitling, but also puts the idea of self-reflectivity to a rather creative use. The early film audiences might've been freaked out by this, don't forget the shot of the train arriving in the station which received that reaction. Only here, they warned us. Okay, I'll shut up. Ground-breaking film because of the intertitles and also very creative for 1900. A good minute with a good, original gag.

MisterWhiplash The great thing about this film is that these filmmakers, whether they had seen it or not, had the kind of movie that the Lumiere brothers happened to catch in mind - the Train coming in the Station that basically birthed cinema in 1895 - and they decided 'we can do a step further.' Now, it's not that the whole film is only the car coming at the camera, and we first see a horse and buggy go by the "person" sitting or standing in the road. It's a very basic feeling that the crux of this film does - terror - but it also is more primal, which is helplessness.The whole 1 minute is meant to express a feeling, and whether you really feel it or not (it IS 116 years ago now), it does have a visceral impact: it's hard to not believe the car is going to kill "you" in place of the camera, since we're the camera-eye. This is one of the major accomplishments of cinematic grammar: if you can get an audience to feel something by how the camera is in place and how the frame is set in just such a position (and in this case there's even some odd text that comes over black in the last few seconds), then you win at cinema.

Michael_Elliott How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) I really love to watch these older movies but, to be honest, very few of them really stand out because the majority of them either feature someone dancing, boxing, walking, standing around or just doing something that we've seen in other films. This one here is at least original and lives up to its title. The camera is set up at the end of a road when we see a carriage go by. We then see another carriage coming straight towards the camera and crashing into it. This gives you the idea of being ran over.Funny? Not really but at least the film was somewhat creative and especially when compared to other films from this era. I really don't think the film was all that funny but I can imagine it scaring a few people who saw it back in 1900.

bob the moo OK so the title more or less gives away the entire "plot" of this very short short film but it is still quite interesting. The point obviously is to try and amaze the audience and draw a reaction by having a car rushing towards the viewer in the hope that audiences still dealing with this new technology will instinctively panic somewhat. Watching it now of course I didn't react this way but you can imagine how it once did (even today we do it in the cinemas – it now just means it has to move faster and have effects that make it a lot realer.However the film is nicely done because the cart going by first makes us assume safety before the car is seen approaching and the music lifts to become more dramatic. Of course it also plays on the fear of that other "new" piece of technology – the motor car, so the combination of these factors would have got a good reaction I would guess. Nothing really to it now but it is still interesting to see how it is structured to achieve its aim and then hits it well.