One of the tricks an early movie producer is reported to have tried was to put the stagecoach on a rubber tired wagon, with the wagon hidden from view of course, and use an electric motor to rotate the coach wheels backward so they'd look like they were going the right way.
I think the report of this was from someone's imagination, although "inventors" will try to do lots of pretty bizarre things; but it is true that the wheels will look like they rotate in the direction opposite to their actual motion, regardless of which way they're actually going, assume the frame rate and wheel rotation rates are in the proper frequency ranges.