Trick Film Movies

  • 1904
    Barnum's Trunk

    Barnum's Trunk

    Barnum's Trunk

    5.31904HD

    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.

    Barnum's Trunk
  • 1909
    Slippery Jim

    Slippery Jim

    Slippery Jim

    6.81909HD

    Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice. After...

    Slippery Jim
  • 1905
    Phenomenal Hen

    Phenomenal Hen

    Phenomenal Hen

    51905HD

    A magician produces a chicken from an immense egg, and then six chicks from eggs laid by that chicken. The chicken is wrapped in paper and put into a...

    Phenomenal Hen
  • 1901
    The Waif and the Wizard

    The Waif and the Wizard

    The Waif and the Wizard

    6.51901HD

    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...

    The Waif and the Wizard
  • 1913
    Bloomer Smokes Opium

    Bloomer Smokes Opium

    Bloomer Smokes Opium

    61913HD

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

    Bloomer Smokes Opium