In 1902, Georges Méliès created a comical little film that showed a dancer running up a wall and performing handsprings in mid-air. The film, titled The Human Fly, can be viewed below.
The film stands today as a forerunner to a number of popular films.
Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding (1950)
Lionel Richie in "Dancing on the Ceiling" music video (1986)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Inception (2010)
