The Famous Box Trick

The Famous Box Trick is a French fantasy film about a magician who performs a sequence of illusions. Using a box, the performer makes a boy appear and disappear, divides him in two with an axe, and transforms him into paper and flags. The performance concludes with the magician vanishing in a cloud of smoke before returning to bow to the audience.

Produced by Star-Film, the movie was directed by Georges Méliès, who also stars as the magician. In the chronological order of his work, this is the third of 14 films he directed, following The Magician and preceding Cinderella. The short film has a runtime of one minute. Audience reception is mixed but generally positive, with a rating of 6.1/10 on IMDb based on 737 votes and a 6.2/10 rating on TMDB from 34 votes.