How Brown Saw the Baseball Game

How Brown Saw the Baseball Game
Text-only advertisement for the film with its title written in capital letters
Advertisement in Billboard magazine in 1907
Production
company
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Distributed byLubin Manufacturing Company
Release date
  • November 16, 1907 (1907-11-16) (United States)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

How Brown Saw the Baseball Game is an American short silent comedy film produced in 1907 and distributed by the Lubin Manufacturing Company. The film follows a baseball fan named Mr. Brown who overdrinks before a baseball game and becomes so intoxicated that the game appears to him in reverse motion. During production, trick photography was used to achieve this effect. The film was released in November 1907. It received a positive review in a 1908 issue of The Courier-Journal that reported the film was successful and "truly funny". As of 2021, it is unclear whether the print of the film has survived. The identities of the film cast and production crew are unknown. Film historians have noted similarities between the plot of How Brown Saw the Baseball Game and How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game. It is a comedy film directed by Edwin S. Porter, having released a year before How Brown Saw the Baseball Game.