Given that the movies being played in 1899 were all about a minute long (or shorter), then the fact that this little snippet of a film is so very, very simple shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has seen any of these very early films. So, my rating of 5 is based on a comparison with other films of the day--not modern films. Heck, compared to ANY movie of the last 80 years, CASEY is a terrible film--so understand the context, please.
The film consists of a baseball player at bat and the camera is behind him--showing the catcher and umpire. When the guy strikes out, he reacts poorly, to say the least, and he attacks the umpire. That's it--and the entire film is, as mentioned above, only about a minute long. I read that this film is a fragment, but I wonder if this really was all there was to it--as this is very typical of the films of the era.
The film consists of a baseball player at bat and the camera is behind him--showing the catcher and umpire. When the guy strikes out, he reacts poorly, to say the least, and he attacks the umpire. That's it--and the entire film is, as mentioned above, only about a minute long. I read that this film is a fragment, but I wonder if this really was all there was to it--as this is very typical of the films of the era.
