Trick
see all genres ›Realizing that simply showing life projected on a sheet would lose its novelty eventually, filmmakers soon searched for things their new medium could call uniquely its own. Trick photography, with its ability to create illusions fantastical or fearsome, was one realm which it could easily outrun the legitimate stage.
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Ghosts Before Breakfast
The Dadaists were closely attuned to cinema's native surrealism. And so it is fitting that Hans Richter's GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST should return to so many of the medium's first loves: trick shots, fisticuffs and slapstick are all thrown in the dada blender, unfettered from the...Watch Movie
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Explosion of a Motor Car
It has been claimed that early automobiles were not particularly safe. British director Cecil Hepworth takes such notions to the inevitable extreme. In this case, the explosion is only the beginning. Tragedy follows (with a dose of black humor). This particular version, oddly...Watch Movie
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Another Job for the Undertaker
This peculiar Thomas Edison short makes use of trick photography to show a man magically shorn of his belongings and clothes (as though the room in which he is sleeping is possessed). A warning about the gas lamps on the painted flat that comprises his room telegraphs the end...Watch Movie
