Trick Film Movies

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 w...

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes t...

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 astr...

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.

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the mo...

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 maid...

A diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Segundo de Chomón's remake "Plongeur fantast...

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

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled eggs...

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

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

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

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

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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 bik...

“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 hypnotizes t...

A Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage and superimposing/project...

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks and mak...

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.