Trick Film Movies

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human...

A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.

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

A basket of flowers appears and moves by itself to the middle of a decorative arch. From the basket, a woman magician appears. From a cylinder, the...

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

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

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

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

A magician shows tricks with money.

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

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 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 diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Ferdinand Zecca's own remake of the same...

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...

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....

A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering them – through the mail as puppets in...

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

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...