Here's a precursor to The Incredible Melting Man.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.

Here's a precursor to Brian de Palma films.  You'll be forgiven for identifing all Brian de Palma films in this one image.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.

"Lifting wine glasses counts as exercise" quips celebrated humorist Elaine Ambrose, and she was hardly even joking.  Here's a precurosr to her insight, from Le Courrier Français, 1907.

Fashions predicted for the year 1993, a hundred years earlier.  Eerily accurate!  From Le Courrier Français, 1893.

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Here's a precusor to the trend of people taking their dogs into restaurants.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.

Here's a precursor to The Iceman Cometh.  The sudden appearance of an ice man, and not the long-expected murderously jealous husband, ends a comedic sketch with one character screaming in fright, and the script promises that it's one of the best finishes in vaudeville.  From A Cold Finish, A Vaudeville Sketch by Harry Lee Newton, 1905.

Here's a precursor to Hugh Hefner.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.

Here's a precursor to the film Naked Lunch, in which Judy Davis injects herself with enough insecticide that her very breath kills bugs.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.

Here's a precursor to today's facial recognition and other privacy-shattering profiling techniques.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.

Here's a precursor to the Super Mario baddie Magikoopa a.k.a. Kamek.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.

Here's a precursor to the Chicago trains map dress.  From Judge's Library, 1893.

"Life is a movie, or a book, or a movie made from a book" (Pete Sinclair, Thinking Out Loud Through the American West, 1999).  From Jugend, 1923.

Here's a precursor to Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.

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Here's a precursor to the rabbit in Midsomer Murders who is "anyone's for a cherry tomato."  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.

Here's a surprising benefit to wearing Groucho-style glasses in the field.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.  Here's my very modest collection of vintage Groucho glasses precursors.