Trick Film Movies

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan...

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

A magician shows tricks with money.

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's ano...

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and t...

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a dog...

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

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 h...

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

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the mo...

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 f...

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 won...

As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation are...

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one o...

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

This film begins with the invocation of 'almighty god' at a river where several people are gathered. The child god Krishna rises out of the water astr...

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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