Trick Film Movies

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...

Experimental color film that shows a magician and his assistant making objects and people appear and disappear. Then they stack up some blocks and a...

A magical adventure begins Once upon a time, within a vast and wild forest there was a fantastic Kingdom called Rodencia, a place where wonderful...

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...

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...

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 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...

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

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 romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

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 shows tricks with money.

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 family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

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

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

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...

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

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.