Trick Film Movies

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

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

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

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

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the...

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and...

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

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

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...

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 of the...

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

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...

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 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.