| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-'''TheOldestOnesInTheBook'''\ |
| 2 | OlderThanTheNES | Before 1985\ |
| 3 | OlderThanCableTV | 1939 -- 1980\ |
| 4 | '''Older Than Television''' | 1890 -- 1939\ |
| 5 | OlderThanRadio | 1698 -- 1890\ |
| 6 | OlderThanSteam | 1439 -- 1698\ |
| 7 | OlderThanPrint | 476 -- 1439\ |
| 8 | OlderThanFeudalism | ~800 BC -- 476 AD\ |
| 9 | OlderThanDirt | Before ~800 BC-]]]]] |
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| 11 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pkimizqn_7428.jpg]] |
| 12 | %%Image originally from http://www.flickr.com/photos/10335565@N03/2980377875 |
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| 14 | Tropes first documented between the invention of radio (1890) and the emergence of television as a mass medium of entertainment (1939). |
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| 16 | [[RadioDrama Radio]] and [[EarlyFilms Cinema]] provided two entirely new media, for the first time in millennia, and originated many tropes. This is also the time of the first {{Super Hero}}es, and the majority of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' stories[[note]](though the first novel is OlderThanRadio)[[/note]]. |
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| 18 | TV, as we generally know it, was invented in 1928, but regular broadcasts didn't start until 1936 in the U.K. and UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and 1939 in the U.S. and U.S.S.R. |
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| 20 | ---- |
| 21 | !!Tropes: |
| 22 | [[index]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * AbandonedMascot -- WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse replaced WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit with ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', 1928 |
| 25 | * TheAbridgedHistory: ''Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates'', 1930 |
| 26 | * AccidentalAimingSkills -- ''Film/TheGoldRush'', 1925. |
| 27 | * AcmeProducts -- ''Film/NeverWeaken'', 1921. |
| 28 | * AdorablyPrecociousChild -- Creator/EdogawaRampo's [1894-1965] detective novels. |
| 29 | * AdventuresInComaland -- ''Film/ThePoorLittleRichGirl'', 1917 |
| 30 | * AIIsACrapshoot -- ''Theatre/{{RUR}}'', 1920. Also coined the word "robot." |
| 31 | * AlertnessBlink -- Pick an early-20th Century cartoon. ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'' (1928) is a good starting point. |
| 32 | * AlienInvasion -- ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', by Creator/HGWells, 1898, and ''Auf zwei Planeten'' ("On Two Planets") by Creator/KurdLasswitz, 1897 |
| 33 | * AliensAreBastards -- ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds 1898'' |
| 34 | * AllPartOfTheShow -- ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}'' by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, 1892 |
| 35 | * AncientAstronauts -- ''[[Literature/EdisonsConquestOfMars Edison's Conquest of Mars]]'', 1898 |
| 36 | * AnimalTalk -- ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', 1894 |
| 37 | * AnimatedAdaptation -- ''WesternAnimation/LittleNemo'', 1911 |
| 38 | * AnimatedMusical -- ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', 1937 |
| 39 | * AnthologyFilm -- ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'', 1916 |
| 40 | * AntiquatedLinguistics -- Creator/HPLovecraft, 1890-1937 |
| 41 | * ArtificialGravity -- ''Auf zwei Planeten'' by Kurd Lasswitz, 1897, and ''Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon'' by Creator/HGWells, 1901 |
| 42 | * ArtsyBeret -- while the UrExample may be Creator/{{Rembrandt|VanRijn}}'s 17th century self portrait, this was first popularized by artists in 1920's Paris, such as Creator/PabloPicasso. |
| 43 | * AsideGlance -- silent comedy films. Used in ''Film/LesVampires'', 1915. |
| 44 | * AspectRatioSwitch -- ''Film/Napoleon1927'', used 4:3 for most of the film, but the climax switches on two projectors on either side of the main one, showing off the Polyvision system with a ridiculously wide 4:1 ratio. This remains the widest AspectRatio in cinematic history. This three projector system would be imitated 25 years later with the Cinerama system. |
| 45 | * AssemblyLineFastForward -- ''Film/ModernTimes'', 1936 |
| 46 | * AsteroidMiners -- ''Edison's Conquest of Mars'', Garrett P. Serviss, 1898 |
| 47 | * AuthorVocabularyCalendar -- Bram Stoker uses the word "voluptuous" a lot in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', 1897. |
| 48 | * AwardShow -- The 2nd UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, 1930 |
| 49 | * AxeBeforeEntering -- ''Film/BrokenBlossoms'', 1919 |
| 50 | * BananaRepublic -- [[TropeNamer Named]] and used in O. Henry's 1904 novel ''Literature/CabbagesAndKings'', and the concept also shows up in Joseph Conrad's ''Literature/{{Nostromo}}'' from the same year. |
| 51 | * BarBrawl -- ''Film/TheStrongMan'', 1926 |
| 52 | * BehindAStick -- ''[[WesternAnimation/ReynaudFilms Pauvre Pierrot]]'', 1892 |
| 53 | * BenevolentAlienInvasion -- ''Auf zwei Planeten'' ("On Two Planets") by Creator/KurdLasswitz, 1897 |
| 54 | * BigGame -- ''Film/{{The Freshman|1925}}'', 1925 |
| 55 | * BigManOnCampus -- ''Film/{{The Freshman|1925}}'', 1925 |
| 56 | * TheBigRottenApple -- ''Film/TheMusketeersOfPigAlley'' and ''Film/TheLandBeyondTheSunset'', 1912 |
| 57 | * BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord -- 1930s Hollywood |
| 58 | * BladeBrake -- ''Film/TheBlackPirate'', 1926 |
| 59 | * BlamingTheMan -- ''Literature/OneOfOurs'', 1922 |
| 60 | * TheBookCipher -- Literature/SherlockHolmes novel ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'', 1915 |
| 61 | * BreakupBreakout -- Music/BingCrosby after The Rhythm Boys split up in 1931. |
| 62 | * BridgeLogic -- ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', 1900 |
| 63 | * BroadcastLive -- The first entertainment-oriented radio transmission was Reginald Fessenden's Christmas Eve 1906 broadcast from Massachusetts, which was also the UrExample of a ChristmasSpecial ("O Holy Night" has the distinction of being the first Christmas carol played on the air). Charles Herrold's ''San Jose Calling'', beginning in 1909, was the first regularly-scheduled entertainment program. |
| 64 | * BrokeEpisode -- A ''lot'' of films and literature made during the Great Depression featured impoverished protagonists. |
| 65 | * BronsonCanyonAndCaves -- First used as a shooting location in ''Lightning Bryce'' (1919) |
| 66 | * BusmansHoliday -- ''Sherlock Holmes'', 1893 |
| 67 | * CactusCushion -- ''Film/FanchonTheCricket'', 1915 |
| 68 | * CarSong -- "In My Merry Oldsmobile", 1905 |
| 69 | * CatchingSomeZs -- ''ComicStrip/TheKatzenjammerKids'' used this StockVisualMetaphor before [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charles Schulz]] was even born in 1922. |
| 70 | * CausedTheBigBang -- ''The Accursed Galaxy'' by Creator/EdmondHamilton, 1935 |
| 71 | * ChalkOutline -- ''Literature/TheCaseOfTheVelvetClaws'', 1933 |
| 72 | * ChinaTakesOverTheWorld -- ''Literature/TheWarInTheAir'' by Creator/HGWells, and ''Literature/LordOfTheWorld'' by Robert Hugh Benson, both published 1907-1908. |
| 73 | * {{Chronoscope}} -- The ''Retrospektiv'' in ''Auf zwei Planeten'' ("On Two Planets, 1897) by Creator/KurdLasswitz, 1897 |
| 74 | * CitizenshipMarriage --''Film/TheMatingCall'', 1928 |
| 75 | * CliffhangerCopout -- ''Film/UnderseaKingdom'', 1936 |
| 76 | * ClimbingClimax -- ''King Kong'', 1933 |
| 77 | * ClockworkCreature -- Tiktok in ''Literature/OzmaOfOz'', 1907 |
| 78 | * CoatHatMask -- ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'', 1897 |
| 79 | * ColdEquation -- ''Film/WomanInTheMoon'', 1929[[note]]Unless you count Lawrence Oates's RealLife and ultimately futile example from Robert Scott's Antarctic expedition, 1912[[/note]] |
| 80 | * CompanyCameo -- ''Film/TheNewYorkHat'', 1912 |
| 81 | * ConceptVideo -- Popular songwriter Charles K. Harris developed slide shows for his songs in the [=1890s=], with painted photos illustrating the song's lyrics. |
| 82 | * TheConvenientStoreNextDoor -- The ''Sherlock Holmes'' story "Literature/TheRedHeadedLeague", 1891 |
| 83 | * ConveyorBeltODoom -- Joseph Arthurs' melodrama ''Theatre/BlueJeans'', 1890 |
| 84 | * CookingShow -- ''Cook's Night Out'', 1937 |
| 85 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive -- ''Film/ACornerInWheat'', 1909 |
| 86 | * CreepyChild -- ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', 1898 |
| 87 | * CutPhoneLines -- ''Film/{{Suspense}}'', 1913 |
| 88 | * CyberPunk -- ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' 1927, by Creator/FritzLang. |
| 89 | * DawsonCasting -- Mary Pickford playing children in several films, such as ''Film/ThePoorLittleRichGirl'' (1917), in which 24-year-old Pickford played an 11-year-old girl. |
| 90 | * TheDayTheMusicLied -- ''Popeye'' cartoon films, 1933-onward. |
| 91 | * DeathInTheClouds -- The TropeNamer is the Creator/AgathaChristie novel ''DeathInTheClouds'' first published in 1935. |
| 92 | * DeathRay -- ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', by Creator/HGWells, 1898, and ''Auf zwei Planeten'' ("On Two Planets") by Creator/KurdLasswitz, 1897 |
| 93 | * {{Defictionalization}} -- ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInSeventyTwoDays'', 1890 |
| 94 | * DesignerBabies -- Creator/AldousHuxley's 1932 novel ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' |
| 95 | * DesiresPrisonLife -- "The Cop and the Anthem" by Creator/OHenry, 1904 |
| 96 | * DictionaryOpening -- ''[[Film/Sabotage1936 Sabotage]]'', 1936 |
| 97 | * DinosaurDoggieBone -- ''Film/BringingUpBaby'', 1938, and ''[[Recap/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre King Ottokar's Sceptre]]'', 1938[=/=]39 |
| 98 | * DisneyVillainDeath -- An old WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse comic had a giant fall to his death. |
| 99 | * DoomsdayDevice -- The "Earth Brake" in ''Auf zwei Planeten'' by Creator/KurdLasswitz, 1897 |
| 100 | * DramaticHalfHour -- ''Radio/TheLoneRanger'' ran for 30 min per episode. |
| 101 | * {{Dramedy}} -- Creator/CharlieChaplin's ''[[Film/TheKid1921 The Kid]]''. 1921. |
| 102 | * DrillSergeantNasty -- ''Film/TellItToTheMarines'', 1926 |
| 103 | * DrunkenMontage -- Hollywood, 1930s or even earlier. |
| 104 | * DuckSeasonRabbitSeason -- ''Film/SonsOfTheDesert'', 1933 |
| 105 | * DumbwaiterRide -- Creator/CharlieChaplin's ''The Count'', 1916. |
| 106 | * DyingDream -- Creator/AmbroseBierce's short story "Literature/AnOccurrenceAtOwlCreekBridge", 1890 |
| 107 | * EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion -- ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds 1898'', using the "planet takes care of the invaders by itself" variant. |
| 108 | * EdgyBackwardsChairSitting -- Creator/JoanBlondell publicity photo, early 1930s |
| 109 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase -- ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' by Gaston [=LeRoux=], 1909 |
| 110 | * ElmuhFuddSyndwome -- ''Film/TheBarrettsOfWimpoleStreet'', 1934 (predating WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd himself by three years) |
| 111 | * ElvesVersusDwarves -- ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' by H. G. Wells, 1895, with the Eloi and Morlocks. ''Literature/TheHobbit'' by Creator/JRRTolkien, 1937, used it with actual elves and dwarves. |
| 112 | * EpicMovie -- ''Film/{{Cabiria}}'', 1914 |
| 113 | * EpicTrackingShot -- ''Film/TheLastLaugh'', 1924 |
| 114 | * EpunymousTitle -- ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'', 1895 |
| 115 | * EveryCarIsAPinto -- ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler'', 1922 |
| 116 | * ExploitationFilm -- ''Film/TrafficInSouls'', 1913 |
| 117 | * {{Facecam}} -- ''[[Film/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher1928France The Fall of the House of Usher]]'', 1928 |
| 118 | * FairPlayWhodunnit -- The Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Red Headed League", 1891 |
| 119 | * FakeShemp -- ''Film/FoolishWives'', 1922 |
| 120 | * FanserviceExtra -- ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'', 1916 |
| 121 | * FantasticFightingStyle -- Baritsu, from the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the Empty House", 1903. |
| 122 | * {{Fanvid}} -- ''Film/RoseHobart'', 1936 |
| 123 | * FakeoutEscape -- "[[Literature/ArseneLupinGentlemanBurglar The Escape of Arsene Lupin]]", 1906 |
| 124 | * TheFilmOfTheBook -- ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' by George Méliès, 1899 (one of the earliest known, anyway) |
| 125 | * FingertipDrugAnalysis -- ''Film/TheMysteryOfTheLeapingFish'' (1916) |
| 126 | * TheFlapper -- Emerged during TheRoaringTwenties. |
| 127 | * FogOfDoom -- ''Literature/ThePurpleCloud'' by [[Creator/MPShiel M.P. Shiel]], 1901, and the Martians' Black Smoke weapon in ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', 1898. |
| 128 | * FollowTheBouncingBall -- "[[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Come Take a Trip in My Airship]]", 1924 |
| 129 | * ForensicDrama -- ''Film/TheyreAlwaysCaught'' (1938) |
| 130 | * FootPopping -- Recommended in UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode (1930) and in "An Outline of Motion Picture Etiquette" in the [[http://www.archive.org/details/ScreenlandOct.1923 October 1923]] issue of ''Screenland''. |
| 131 | * FruitCart -- ''Film/TheCurtainPole'', 1909 |
| 132 | * FullConversionCyborg -- ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' (1900): The Tin Woodsman started out as a munchkin whose body parts were gradually chopped off by an enchanted axe and replaced until there was nothing left of him but tin. This notably is adapted out of the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Film Adaptation]]. |
| 133 | * GardenHoseSquirtSurprise -- In ''The Sprinkler Sprinkled'' by [[Film/LumiereFilms the Lumière brothers]], 1895 |
| 134 | * GayBestFriend: ''Film/{{Millie}}'', 1931 |
| 135 | * GayAesop -- In ''Film/DifferentFromTheOthers'', 1919 |
| 136 | * GentlemenRankers -- In "Gentlemen-rankers" by Rudyard Kipling (1892). |
| 137 | * GigglingVillain -- Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", 1893 |
| 138 | * GirlsBehindBars -- ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl'', 1929 |
| 139 | * TheGlassesGottaGo -- ''Film/FootlightParade'', 1933 |
| 140 | * GoingColdTurkey -- ''Film/{{Kongo}}'' and ''Film/ThreeOnAMatch'', 1932 |
| 141 | * GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion -- ''Theatre/TheyKnewWhatTheyWanted'', 1924 |
| 142 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe -- Deja Thoris from Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs' ''Literature/APrincessOfMars'', 1912, or the slightly less exotic-looking La from Creator/KurdLasswitz' ''Auf zwei Planeten'' ("On Two Planets"), 1897 |
| 143 | * GroundhogDayLoop -- ''Radio/TheShadow'' (radio show), 1939 |
| 144 | * GunsAkimbo -- ''Film/TheBargain'', 1914 |
| 145 | * HalloweenEpisode -- ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', 1938 |
| 146 | * HashHouseLingo -- Creator/FattyArbuckle short film ''[[Film/TheWaitersBall The Waiters' Ball]]'', 1916 |
| 147 | * HeroicFireRescue -- ''Film/LifeOfAnAmericanFireman'', 1902 |
| 148 | * {{Hihiirokane}} -- The Takenouchi Documents, 1935 |
| 149 | * HitlerCam -- ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'', 1934, and other Nazi propaganda of the era |
| 150 | * HollywoodGlassCutter -- The Literature/SherlockHolmes short story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton", 1904 |
| 151 | * HollywoodSatanism -- ''Film/TheBlackCat'', 1934 |
| 152 | * HookHand -- ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1904}}'', 1904 |
| 153 | * HospitalGurneyScene -- ''Theatre/MenInWhite'', 1933 |
| 154 | * IgnoreTheDisability -- 1930s, if not earlier. |
| 155 | * IHitYouYouHitTheGround -- ''"There'll be only two blows struck: I'll hit him, and he'll hit the earth."'': ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', 1909. |
| 156 | * IllTakeTwoBeersToo -- ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' and ''Film/TheFixerUppers'', 1935 |
| 157 | * InscrutableAliens -- The Martians in ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. Humanity can only speculate on what they want with Earth. |
| 158 | * IntrepidReporter -- ''Film/ThePowerOfThePress'', 1928 |
| 159 | * IronicNurseryTune -- Mahler's ''Symphony No. 1'', 1899 |
| 160 | * JediMindTrick -- ''Radio/TheShadow'', 1938 |
| 161 | * JustForTheHeliOfIt -- ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'', 1934 |
| 162 | * {{Kaiju}} -- ''Film/TheLostWorld'', 1925 |
| 163 | * KingOfTheHomeless -- At the latest, James Elroy Flecker's ''Hassan'', 1922. You could argue earlier ones, but Rafi in ''Hassan'' fits the trope exactly, whereas, say, Fagin from ''Oliver Twist'' is more of a local crime boss. |
| 164 | * KirksRock -- ''Film/{{Secrets|1933}}'', 1933 |
| 165 | * KitschyThemedRestaurant -- ''Film/OurRelations'', 1936 |
| 166 | * LectureAsExposition -- ''Film/TheTestamentOfDrMabuse'', 1933 |
| 167 | * LeftJustifiedFantasyMap -- ''Literature/TheHobbit'', 1937 |
| 168 | * LensmanArmsRace -- ''Lensman'' novels, 1937 |
| 169 | * LightGunGame -- ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20100927191850/http://marvin3m.com/arcade/rayolit.htm Ray-O-Lite]]'', 1936 (also found under OlderThanTheNES) |
| 170 | * LikeYouWereDying -- Lucy Maud Montgomery's ''Literature/TheBlueCastle'', 1926 |
| 171 | * LiveActionAdaptation -- ''Film/DreamOfARarebitFiend'', 1906 (of comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'') |
| 172 | * LostInACrowd -- ''[[Film/The39Steps1935 The 39 Steps]]'', 1935 |
| 173 | * LovesMyAlterEgo -- Roxane, Cyrano and Christian in ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'', 1897 |
| 174 | * LuridTalesOfDoom -- ''Film/FiveStarFinal'', 1931 |
| 175 | * MadScientistLaboratory -- ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', 1927 |
| 176 | * TheMafia -- Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Six Napoleons", 1904 |
| 177 | * MagicFeather -- ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', 1900 |
| 178 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident -- A primary M.O. of Prof. James Moriarty's organization in the 1893 ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' ShortStory "The Final Problem". |
| 179 | * MarilynManeuver -- Creator/MackSennett short ''Film/TheSurfGirl'', 1916 |
| 180 | * MeatOVision -- ''Film/TheGoldRush'', 1925 |
| 181 | * MeetCute -- 1930s [[ScrewballComedy screwball comedies]]; also Christine and Raoul in ''The Phantom of the Opera'' by Gaston [=LeRoux=], 1909 |
| 182 | * MerchandiseDriven -- The ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' radio show from TheThirties. |
| 183 | * MirrorRoutine: ''Film/TheFloorwalker'', 1916 |
| 184 | * TheMole -- Literature/SherlockHolmes novel ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'', 1915 |
| 185 | * MonumentalBattle -- ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'', 1933 |
| 186 | * MonumentalDamageResistance -- ''Deluge'', 1933 |
| 187 | * MorningSickness -- ''Film/WhereAreMyChildren'', 1916 |
| 188 | * MurderByRemoteControlVehicle: ''Radio/TheShadow'' radio show, 1939 |
| 189 | * TheMusicalMusical -- ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody'', 1929 |
| 190 | * ANaziByAnyOtherName -- ''Film/TheHouseOfRothschild'', 1934 |
| 191 | * NecroCam: A FlashbackMontageRealization about how a character died. Present in ''Film/FogOverFrisco'' and ''Film/TheCaseOfTheCuriousBride'', 1934. |
| 192 | * NewscasterCameo -- H.V. Kaltenborn in ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'', 1939 |
| 193 | * NoodleIncident -- The ''Sherlock Holmes'' canon, if not earlier. |
| 194 | * {{Novelization}} -- The novelization of ''Film/TrafficInSouls'', 1914 |
| 195 | * NudityEqualsHonesty -- A nude woman playing a character called the "Naked Truth" in film ''Film/{{Hypocrites}}'', 1915 |
| 196 | * OcularGushers -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aLY99NIsAQ This]] ''Ko-Ko Song Car-Tune'', entitled "Darling Nellie Gray" (1926), has a dog character crying in this manner during the lyric "And I'm weeping all the day." |
| 197 | * OminousLatinChanting -- Justified [as it's set in a church and involves a villain who's a religious hypocrite] in the Act I finale of Puccini's ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'', 1900; The modern, more random usages of the trope probably date from ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', 1938. |
| 198 | * OmniscientDatabase -- 1890s and ''Sherlock Holmes'' |
| 199 | * OneLetterName -- K of ''Literature/TheCastle'', Creator/FranzKafka, 1926 |
| 200 | * TheOner -- ''Film/ATripDownMarketStreet'', 1906 |
| 201 | * OurAlebrijesAreDifferent -- Creator/PedroLinaresLopez had fever dreams of Alebrijes in 1936 |
| 202 | * OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame -- ''Literature/TheHobbit'', 1937 |
| 203 | * PaddleballShot -- ''Film/{{Audioscopiks}}'', 1935 |
| 204 | * PardonMyKlingon -- ''Utopia, Limited'', Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, 1893. Lalabalele talala! Callabale lalabalica falahle! |
| 205 | * PeterPanParody - ''The Little White Bird'', 1902 |
| 206 | * PhoneaholicTeenager -- Likely became common as soon as a telephone in every home became common, which happened during this era. |
| 207 | * PhonyNewscast -- ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' (radio version), 1938 |
| 208 | * PlanetLooters -- ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' by Creator/HGWells, 1898 |
| 209 | * PoliceProcedural -- ''Film/{{M}}'', 1931 |
| 210 | * ProductPlacement -- Sweet Corporal tobacco, ''Film/PrincessNicotine'', 1909 |
| 211 | * PutMeInCoach -- ''Film/{{The Freshman|1925}}'', 1925 |
| 212 | * PuttingOnTheReich -- ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', 1938 (UsefulNotes/TheTeutonicKnights with swastikas) and ''[[Literature/ItCantHappenHere It Can't Happen Here]]'' by Sinclair Lewis, 1939. |
| 213 | * RaceForYourLove -- ''Film/MatrimonysSpeedLimit'', 1913 |
| 214 | * RainOfBlood -- Thomas Hardy's ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'', 1891 |
| 215 | * RakeTake -- ''[[Film/GrandmasBoy1922 Grandma's Boy]]'', 1922 |
| 216 | * {{Retirony}} -- ''Film/{{Central Park|1932}}'', 1932 |
| 217 | * RevivalByCommercialization -- The 1931 hit "As Time Goes By" getting new life from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', 1942. It even led to a sheet music reissue prominently touting the film on the cover, complete with pics of Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/IngridBergman and Creator/PaulHenreid. |
| 218 | * RightHandCat -- ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1921}}'', 1921 |
| 219 | * TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies -- ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', 1898. |
| 220 | * RipTailoring -- Creator/ClaraBow in ''Film/{{It|1927}}'', 1927. |
| 221 | * RobotWar -- ''Theatre/{{RUR}}'', 1920 |
| 222 | * RockersSmashGuitars -- ''WesternAnimation/TheOldMillPond'', 1936 |
| 223 | * RogerRabbitEffect -- ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'', 1914 |
| 224 | * RuleThirtyFour -- The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_bible Tijuana Bible]]. |
| 225 | * SafeDrivingAesop -- ''Film/DrunkDriving'', 1939 |
| 226 | * ScammingTheBereaved -- ''Film/BlondeCrazy'', 1931 |
| 227 | * ScoobyStack -- ''[[Film/GrandmasBoy1922 Grandma's Boy]]'', 1922 |
| 228 | * SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou -- ''Film/{{The Great Train Robbery|1903}}'', 1903 |
| 229 | * SexyFigureGesture -- ''Film/ThatLittleBandOfGold'', 1915 |
| 230 | * TheShangriLa -- 1933 novel ''Literature/LostHorizon'' by James Hilton |
| 231 | * ShiksaGoddess -- ''Literature/{{Trilby}}'', 1894 |
| 232 | * SkinnyDipping -- ''Film/{{Mickey}}'', 1918 |
| 233 | * SkyFace -- ''Film/TraderHorn'', 1931 |
| 234 | * SoapOpera -- On radio, ''Painted Dreams'', 1930. On television, ''These Are My Children'', 1949 (the first daily daytime TV drama). Both shows were created by Irna Phillips (who also created ''Series/GuidingLight'', ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' and ''Series/AnotherWorld''). |
| 235 | * SpaceOpera -- ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'', 1937 |
| 236 | * SpaceStation -- ''Auf zwei Planeten'' ("On Two Planets") by Creator/KurdLasswitz, 1897 |
| 237 | * SpitTake -- ''Film/TheKnockout'', 1914 |
| 238 | * SplitScreen -- ''Film/{{Suspense}}'', 1913 |
| 239 | * SplitScreenPhoneCall -- ''Canned Harmony'', 1912 |
| 240 | * StartsWithTheirFuneral -- ''Film/ThePowerAndTheGlory'', 1933 |
| 241 | * StopTrick -- J. Stuart Blackton's ''Enchanted Drawing'', 1900; and George Méliès' ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', 1902. |
| 242 | * StripPoker -- ''Film/TheDarkHorse'', 1932 |
| 243 | * SummationGathering -- ''Literature/TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles'', 1920 |
| 244 | * {{Superhero}} -- ''Theatre/GoldenBat'' paper theatre (1930), ''Literature/TheShadow'' magazine (1931), ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'' (1934), ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' (1936), and ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' (1938) |
| 245 | * SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: Romanian folk tale [[https://www.publicmedievalist.com/tg-fairy-tale/ "The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy"]], 1894 |
| 246 | * SyntheticPlague - ''Radio/TheShadow'', 1938 |
| 247 | * TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath -- Any hard-boiled radio drama. |
| 248 | * TakeTheWheel -- ''Film/SherlockJr'', 1924 |
| 249 | * TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat -- ''Film/TheGreeksHadAWordForThem'', 1932 |
| 250 | * TarzanBoy -- ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', 1894 |
| 251 | * TeleFrag -- Magazine/AmazingStories, {{Discussed}} in "The Machine Man of Ardathia", 1927, invoked in "Anachronism", 1930 |
| 252 | * TheTelevisionTalksBack -- ''Film/{{Stage Struck|1936}}'', 1936 |
| 253 | * TerminallyDependentSociety -- E.M. Forster's "Literature/TheMachineStops", 1909 |
| 254 | * TerroristsWithoutACause -- ''Literature/TheSecretAgent'', 1907 |
| 255 | * ThatWasObjectionable -- The Creator/MarxBrothers' ''Film/DuckSoup'', 1933. |
| 256 | * TimeStandsStill -- "Literature/TheNewAccelerator" by Creator/HGWells, 1901 |
| 257 | * TitledAfterTheSong -- ''Film/LittleAnnieRooney'', 1925 |
| 258 | * ToplessnessFromTheBack -- ''Film/FoolishWives'', 1922 |
| 259 | * TheTriadsAndTheTongs -- ''Film/TheCameraman'', 1928 |
| 260 | * TrickAndFollowPloy -- Performed by Literature/SherlockHolmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia", 1891. |
| 261 | * TripodTerror -- ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' by Creator/HGWells, 1898 |
| 262 | * TropeyComeHome -- "Franchise/{{Lassie}} Come Home" (original short story), 1938 |
| 263 | * TwilightOfTheOldWest -- Officially began with the declaration of the closure of the American frontier, incidentally also in 1890 |
| 264 | * TunnelOfLove -- ''Film/TheCrowd'', 1928 |
| 265 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters -- The robots do it in ''Theatre/{{RUR}}'', 1920 |
| 266 | * UterineReplicator -- Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' |
| 267 | * VarietyShow -- ''Blue Monday Jamboree'', 1927 (a local UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco radio show that later went nationwide). |
| 268 | * VicePresidentWho -- ''His Royal Slyness'', 1920 |
| 269 | * VideoPhone -- ''Die Fernschule'' ("The Long-Distance School") by Creator/KurdLasswitz, 1902, ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', 1927. |
| 270 | * VideoWills -- ''Film/TheGreeksHadAWordForThem'', 1932, using a phonograph. |
| 271 | * VirtualCelebrity -- Charlie [=McCarthy=], a character created by Creator/EdgarBergen, gained mass popularity in 1937. |
| 272 | * TheVoiceless -- [[Creator/MarxBrothers Harpo Marx]], who debuted with his brothers in ''Film/TheCocoanuts'' in 1929. (If you count their prior stage career, Harpo was doing TheVoiceless by the mid-1910s.) |
| 273 | * WartimeCartoon -- "WesternAnimation/TheSinkingOfTheLusitania", 1918 |
| 274 | * WatchingTheReflectionUndress: ''Film/FoolishWives'', 1922 |
| 275 | * WaxOnWaxOff: ''Film/OneNightOfLove'', 1934 |
| 276 | * WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: ''Film/TheLivesOfABengalLancer'', 1935[[note]]Although the line in the movie is actually "We have ways to make men talk."[[/note]] |
| 277 | * WeInterruptThisProgram -- ''Film/DeathOnTheDiamond'', 1934 |
| 278 | * WidescreenShot -- OlderThanTheyThink; ''The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight'', 1897, shot in 1.65:1 aspect ratio; if you stretch the definition to include paintings, goes as far back as OlderThanPrint or even farther to accommodate any low but considerably wide painting, relief or artwork |
| 279 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity -- ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'', 1897. While there may have been earlier versions, this is notably the first time ''man-made'' technology grants the powers that drive the gifted insane. |
| 280 | * WorkingTheSameCase -- ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'', 1927, if not earlier |
| 281 | * WrongInsultOffence -- The title character in ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'', 1897. |
| 282 | * TheWrongWayOnTheEscalator -- ''Film/TheFloorwalker'', 1916. |
| 283 | * XtremeKoolLetterz -- Creator/AleisterCrowley popularized the "Magick" spelling for "magic" in the modern western world. |
| 284 | * {{Yakuza}} -- ''Film/WalkCheerfully'', 1930 |
| 285 | * ZenerCards -- Designed and used in the mid-30's. |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[/index]] |
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