Trick Film Movies

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.

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

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 on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...

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

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

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

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 magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

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

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

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

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

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...

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

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one...