Trick Film Movies

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,...

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

A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and...

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...

Many of the scenes of this split-reel short about a bizarre group of tramp musicians who disappear into and out of drums, beach umbrellas and...

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.

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

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...

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.

“Mr. and Mrs. Hayseed have heard of this wonderful Professor, and come to his office. They waken him from a trance, give him a fee and he...

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.

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real...

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...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

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 pickpocket manages to escape the police through a series of fantastic tricks. The director is this film is unknown.

A modern reimagining of the trick film, combining the love of spectacle, the artist's process and the dark state of today's politics.