Trick Film Movies

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

A magician shows tricks with money.

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

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

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...