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

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

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...

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

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.

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 involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

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...

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 scientist concocts a potion that can turn people invisible for short periods of time. Two crooks steal the potion and go on a crime spree.

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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

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...

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

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

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,...

A Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage and...

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...

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...