Trick Film Movies

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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 very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

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

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

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...

Many of the scenes of this split-reel short about a bizarre group of tramp musicians who disappear into and out of drums, beach umbrellas and...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

“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...

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

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

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 shows tricks with money.