Trick Film Movies

  • 1901
    The Fantastic Plunger

    The Fantastic Plunger

    The Fantastic Plunger

    4.41901HD

    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 "Plongeur...

    The Fantastic Plunger
  • 1905
    A Mesmerian Experiment

    A Mesmerian Experiment

    A Mesmerian Experiment

    5.11905HD

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

    A Mesmerian Experiment
  • 1904
    Japanese Varieties

    Japanese Varieties

    Japanese Varieties

    5.31904HD

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

    Japanese Varieties
  • 1900
    Hooligan Assists the Magician

    Hooligan Assists the Magician

    Hooligan Assists the Magician

    4.31900HD

    This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

    Hooligan Assists the Magician
  • 1908
    Unusual Cooking

    Unusual Cooking

    Unusual Cooking

    51908HD

    A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human...

    Unusual Cooking
  • 1901
    Mysterious Cafe, or Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke Have Troubles with a Waiter

    Mysterious Cafe, or Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke Have Troubles with a Waiter

    Mysterious Cafe, or Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke Have Troubles with a Waiter

    3.81901HD

    As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation...

    Mysterious Cafe, or Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke Have Troubles with a Waiter
  • 1908
    Magic Bricks

    Magic Bricks

    Magic Bricks

    5.41908HD

    Experimental color film that shows a magician and his assistant making objects and people appear and disappear. Then they stack up some blocks and a...

    Magic Bricks
  • 1907
    Wonderful Mirrors

    Wonderful Mirrors

    Wonderful Mirrors

    4.41907HD

    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...

    Wonderful Mirrors
  • 1905
    Phenomenal Hen

    Phenomenal Hen

    Phenomenal Hen

    51905HD

    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...

    Phenomenal Hen
  • 1909
    Come Cretinetti paga i debiti

    Come Cretinetti paga i debiti

    Come Cretinetti paga i debiti

    5.21909HD

    Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

    Come Cretinetti paga i debiti
  • 1899
    Mesmerist and Country Couple

    Mesmerist and Country Couple

    Mesmerist and Country Couple

    2.51899HD

    “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...

    Mesmerist and Country Couple
  • 1900
    An Animated Luncheon

    An Animated Luncheon

    An Animated Luncheon

    51900HD

    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...

    An Animated Luncheon
  • 1909
    Elastic Transformation

    Elastic Transformation

    Elastic Transformation

    51909HD

    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.

    Elastic Transformation
  • 1905
    Flower Fairy

    Flower Fairy

    Flower Fairy

    5.31905HD

    A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

    Flower Fairy
  • 1909
    An Awful Symphony

    An Awful Symphony

    An Awful Symphony

    5.21909HD

    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...

    An Awful Symphony
  • 1904
    The Devil's Dance

    The Devil's Dance

    The Devil's Dance

    5.91904HD

    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 Devil's Dance
  • 1906
    The Impossible Convicts

    The Impossible Convicts

    The Impossible Convicts

    5.61906HD

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

    The Impossible Convicts
  • 1912
    The Jester's Joke

    The Jester's Joke

    The Jester's Joke

    6.51912HD

    A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a...

    The Jester's Joke
  • 1904
    Barnum's Trunk

    Barnum's Trunk

    Barnum's Trunk

    5.41904HD

    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.

    Barnum's Trunk
  • 1912
    Ein neuer Erwerbszweig

    Ein neuer Erwerbszweig

    Ein neuer Erwerbszweig

    01912HD

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

    Ein neuer Erwerbszweig