Trick Film Movies

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...

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

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...

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

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

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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 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 magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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