Loie Fuller – Serpentine Dance (1905)
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Perhaps the earliest psychedelic film. American dancer Loie Fuller performing the serpentine dance in this silent colored film.
Emile Cohl - Fantasmagorie (1908)
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Surreal early 20th century animation has growing organs, disappearing bodies and many more fantastic, hallucinatory elements.
Emile Cohl - The Hasher’s Delirium (1910)
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A 1910 animation portraying the strange effects of hashish.
Kodak Kodachrome Film Test (1922)
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It used to be just taking somebody’s image in colored motion video was psychedelic. Some very early colored cinema moments by Kodak.
Marcel Duchamp - Anemic Cinema (1926)
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Weird Psychedelic effects in this 1926 film by French dada master Marcel Duchamp.
Felix the Cat - DINES and PINES (1927)
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Felix the cats begins hallucinating after eating strange food from the garbage.
Felix the Cat - Woos Whoopee (1928)
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Felix gets high again and goes on some wild adventures.
Mike C. Betty Boop - Silly Scandals (1931)
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Bimbo gets hypnotized into a weird psychedelic state.
Footlight Parade (1933) – Human Waterfall
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Incredible mandala style choreography in this scene from Busby Berkeley’s Footlight Parade (1933).
Willie Whopper in Stratos Fear (1933/1934)
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Willie Whopper flies on Nitrous Oxide in the doctor’s office.
Betty Boop Cartoon Banned For Drug Use (1934)
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Betty Boop gets high on laughing gas, and ends up getting the entire city high, in this 1934 banned cartoon.
Balloon Land – UB IWERKS (1935)
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The Pincushion man comes to attack Balloon Land.
Busby Berkeley Collage
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A mesmerizing collage from Busby Berkeley’s 1930s films.
Fantasia (1940)
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Dancing mushrooms and fairies in Disney’s movie.
Dumbo Pink Elephants on Parade (1941)
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Elephant size hallucinations, from Disney’s Dumbo film.
The Lady In The Tutti Frutti Hat – Busby Berkeley (1943)
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Busby Berkeley does it again with psychedelic choreography from film The Gang’s All Here.
Dreams That Money Can Buy - Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (1947)
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From the 1947 feature film by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter, featuring many artists including Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst.