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Upside Down; or, the Human Flies

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Upside Down; or, the Human Flies
Directed byWalter R. Booth
Produced byRobert W. Paul
Production
company
Paul's Animatograph Works
Release date
  • September 1899 (1899-09)
Running time
1 minute
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent

Upside Down; or, the Human Flies is an 1899 British silent trick film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a conjuror sending his audience to the ceiling.[1] The film, "exploits a very simple illusion: that of filming with the camera turned upside-down so that the actors appear to be performing on the ceiling," and according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "the effectiveness of the final result is such that nearly seventy years later Stanley Kubrick used the same technique in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)." The conjuror was reputedly played by Booth himself.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Upside Down; or the Human Flies - Victorian Popular Culture - Adam Matthew Digital". www.victorianpopularculture.amdigital.co.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  2. ^ Brooke, Michael. "Upside Down; or, the Human Flies". BFI Screenonline Database. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
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