sentences:  In his "Beauty and the Beast" (1946), for example, an actor placing a piece of paper in a fire and then walking backwards away was filmed in reverse motion, causing it to appear as though the character walked up to a fire and pulled the paper out of it.Similar instances are where the petals are peeled off a flower.Cocteau filmed this in reverse motion, making it appear on screen as if the flower comes back to life, with petals rejoining the stem.