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...

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

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

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.

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

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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....

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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

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...

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 magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

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

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

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...

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.

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