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When I was a kid, one of the rare treats of the schoolday was when the teacher, having played a film intended to educate us somehow, would then run the film backwards. This was incredibly amusing. I never got tired of people spitting up milk and returning hooked salmon to the river, and I don't know if I ever will. The various online video sites have made my younger self's heart glad, by featuring any number of homemade videos of people doing normal things backwards. For example, there's Testing 3 2 1, which involves Jedi-like powers of summoning wallets and sunglasses, or Backwards, in which a group of teenagers engage in gravity-reversing antics, or Backwards Video Project, which has, well, you get the idea.
