Trick Film Movies

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

A magician shows tricks with money.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends,...

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks...

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing...

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the...

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...