1920s

Photomontage
1920s: Dada, illustrated press and political graphics.

Photogram
1921–1922: Man Ray's Rayographs turn the process into an avant-garde language.

Solarization
Late 1920s–1930s: Surrealism and experimental photography.

Miniature Effects
1920s: early feature film standard; still in use today

Schüfftan Process
1920s: Development; Metropolis 1927

Split Screen
1920s: avant-garde experiments; later telephone and action montage

Slow Motion
1920s experimental examples; later sports, advertising and action.

Undercranking
Silent film comedy; later action and deliberate stylization

Two-Color Technicolor
1922, The Toll of the Sea

Silhouette Animation
1920s, Lotte Reiniger's feature films

Photo Booth Strip
1925, Anatol Josepho's Photomaton in New York

Dunning Process
1927, Carroll Dunning's colour-separation process

Spirit Duplicator
1923, Wilhelm Ritzerfeld's spirit duplicator

Pulfrich Effect
1922, Carl Pulfrich's description

Airbrush Illustration
1920s commercial prominence; nineteenth-century origins

Special Effects Makeup
1920s landmark: Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera, 1925