Trick Film Movies

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

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

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

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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,...

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

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...

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

A diver jumps into a body of water-- and then comes right back out! This film should not be confused with Ferdinand Zecca's own remake of the same...

A magician produces a chicken from an immense egg, and then six chicks from eggs laid by that chicken. The chicken is wrapped in paper and put into a...

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

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...