Movies and TvShows featuring "camera-trick" theme.
The Astronomer's Dream is a silent film from 1898 that depicts the bizarre dream of an astronomer. The film showcases surreal comedy, fairy-tale fantasy, and supernatural horror elements. It follows the story of an astronomer who falls asleep and dreams of encountering various supernatural entities such as demons and fairies. The film features trick photography and explores themes of absurdity and dreaming. The astronomer's dream takes him to the moon, where he encounters strange creatures and experiences a series of bizarre and surreal events.
After a man eats a Welsh rarebit, he falls into a series of bizarre and fantastical dreams involving gluttony, levitation, and falling through ceilings.
The House of Ghosts is a comedy animation film about a group of friends who get trapped in a haunted mansion during a tempestuous night. They encounter mischievous ghosts and paranormal phenomena, leading to hilarious and spooky situations. The friends must find a way to escape the mansion and overcome their fears before the night is over.
A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
A man is fishing from the side of a river and falls in. Another man dives in to save him. Using camera trickery, the second man 'jumps' backwards back out of the river with the fisherman over his shoulder. he pumps the man's stomach while water squirts out the fisherman's mouth in a high jet. the fisherman comes round and thanks the man who saved him. Light comedy. 1896.
Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.
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