Trick Film Movies

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

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....

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the...

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 little flower film by Gaston Velle.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

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...

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

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

A magician shows tricks with money.

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,...

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...

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

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