Trick Film Movies

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...

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 little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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...

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...

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 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 mischievous witch uses her dark magic on an innocent cyclist until he is all confused. He is forced to pedal backwards and at the same time, his...

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...

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

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

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 man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the...

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

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

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 magician shows tricks with money.

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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.