A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.

英国无声纪录短片《狂暴的大海》（英语：Rough Sea at Dover），由伯特·艾克瑞斯（Birt Acres）和罗伯特·W·保罗（Robert W. Paul）拍摄于1895年末，拍摄地是英国肯特郡多佛尔，1896年1月14日上映。