Trick Film Movies

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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 magician shows tricks with money.

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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

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

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

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 magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

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...

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

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...