Pre rendered backgrounds, real humans acting, strange modulated gore, disturbing sound effects, cutting edge for its time Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria was the PC- gamer's B-movie alternate, darker Myst (the 'inspiration' for Lost). Its most inventive death was by funnel.

Both from the BFI's youtube page.

http://books.google.com/books?id=JeiEprPiGvAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=XOgNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_similarbooks_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Son of Jean Painleve

Anybody taking psych 101 accompanied by Gleitman's textbook was bound to discover the mystery of Louis Wain, a prolific illustrator of Victorian pet-themed postcards whose descent into madness was well documented as Wain never gave up his brush as sanity departed. These are some pre-slide-into-madness images.

Before Jacques Cousteau, Microcosmos and BBC's Blue Planet, there was Jean Painlevé, whose strange, hypnotic shorts explored sea and land creatures. His commentary is unbelievably divergent, too bad these are un-subtitled.