Magic: Stage Illusions, Special Effects, and Trick Photography - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486265617 ISBN 13: 9780486265612

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2013

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Standard work on classic stage illusions performed by Robert-Houdin, Bautier de Kolta, Maskelyne and others. Detailed descriptions of techniques of fire eaters, sword swallowers, jugglers, acrobats, etc. Also ancient magic, automatons, magic photography, much more. Over 400 exceptional illustrations. Introduction. Bibliography.

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INTRODUCTION THE MYSTERIES OF MODERN MAGIC Ancient Magic Division of Magic Cagliostro Robertson Comte de Grisi Robert Houdin Carl Herrmann Signor Blitz Robert Heller Alexander Herrmann Bautier de Kolta Harry Kellar BOOK I. CONJURERS' TRICKS AND STAGE ILLUSIONS CHAPTER I. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES Vanity Fair After the Flood The Magic Palanquin Cassadag Propaganda The Appearing Lady The Disappearing Lady The Mysterious Trunk The Indian Basket Trick Decapitation Spiritualistic Ties CHAPTER II. OPTICAL TRICKS The Cabaret du Neant The Three-Headed Woman Amphitrite The Mystery of Dr. Lynn Black Art The Talking Head The Living Half-Woman She The Queen of Flowers The Decapitated Princess Stella Houdin's Magic Cabinet A Mystic Maze Platinized Glass Statue giving a Double Image CHAPTER III. MISCELLANEOUS STATE TRICKS Trilby The Haunted Swing The Scurimobile The Neoöccultism The Mask of Balsamo The Invisible Woman Magic Harps CHAPTER IV. CONJURING TRICKS Trick with an Egg and a Handkerchief The Cone of Flowers The Magic Rosebush Magic Flowers The Birth of Flowers Tricks with a Hat A Cake Baked in a Hat The Egg and Hat Trick Multiplication of Coins Magic Coins The Dissolving Coin The Spirit Slates Second Sight Magic Cabinets The Traveling Bottle and Glass Disappearance of an Apple and a Ninepin A Goblet of Ink Converted into an Aquarium The Invisible Journey of a Glass of Wine The Wine Changed to Water The Animated Mouse The Sand Frame Trick Houdin's Magic Ball CHAPTER V. JUGGLERS AND ACROBATIC PERFORMANCES Jugglers The Leamy Revolving Trapeze Walking on the Ceiling Head Down The Mysterious Ball CHAPTER VI. FIRE EATERS AND SWORD TRICKS "Fire Eaters, Tricks with Fire" A Stab through the Abdomen The Human Target Sword Swallowers Sword Walkers Dancers on Glass CHAPTER VII. VENTRILOQUISM AND ANIMATED PUPPETS CHAPTER VIII. SHADOWGRAPHY Shadowgraphy French Shadows CHAPTER IX. MENTAL MAGIC Robert Heller Second Sight The Baldwins and Second Sight Silent Through Transference BOOK II. ANCIENT MAGIC CHAPTER I. TEMPLE TRICKS OF THE GREEKS Puppet Shows among the Greeks The Shrine of Bacchus The First Automobile Vehicle The Statue of Cybele Marvelous Altars The Machinery of the Temples Sounding of Trumpets when a Door was Opened Opening and Closing Doors when a Fire was Lighted on the Altar Invention in 1889 A.D. vs. Invention B.C. An Egyptian Lustral Water Vessel CHAPTER II. MIRACULOUS VESSELS OF THE GREEKS The Dicaiometer Miraculous Vessels Magical Pitchers Apparatus for Permitting the Mixing of Wine and Water in Definite Proportions The Magical Bottle Ancient Organs CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE STEAM ENGINE The Eolipile of Heron Heron's Marvelous Altar Heron's Tubular Boiler "CHAPTER IV. GREEK LAMPS, TOYS, ETC." Perpetual Lamps An Ancient Automaton A Greek Toy The Decapitated Drinking Horse Odometers BOOK III. SCIENCE IN THE THEATER CHAPTER I Behind the Scenes of an Opera House The Ordinary Stage The English Stage The Stage Floor The Cellars The Flies The Gridiron Traps Sliders Bridges The Metropolitan Opera House Stage Wing Posts Curtain Calls The Electric Lighting Paint Bridge The Property Man Striking a Scene The Dressing-Rooms The Production of a New Opera "CHAPTER II. SOME REMARKABLE STAGES, ANCIENT AND MODERN" An Electric Curtain The Fan-Drop Curtain An Elevator Theater Stage Some Remarkable American Stage Inventions A Revolving Stage The Asphaleia Stage A Theater with Two Auditoriums Curio's Pivoted Theater The Olympian Theater of Palladio at Vicenza CHAPTER III. STAGE EFFECTS Scene Painting Sunrise Effect Sun Effect Change from Day to Night Stars Moon Effects Rainbow Effect Wind Effect Thunder Effect Lightning Snow Effect Wave Effect Crash Effect Rain Effect Gradual Transformation Fire and Smoke Effect Battle Scenes Theatrical Firearms The Imitation of Odors CHAPTER IV. THEATER SECRETS Traps The Swan in Loghengrin The Floating Rhine Daughters in Rehingold The Sun Robe The Ship on the Stage Miscellaneous Stage Effects The Destruction of the Temple of Dagon The Horse Race on the Stage The Effects in Siegfreid Siegfried's Forge Siegfried's Anvil The Dragon Fafner Wotan's Spear The Bed of Tulips and the Electric Firefly The Electric Torch and Electric Jewels An Electrical Duel The Skirt Dance CHAPTER V. THE NAUTICAL ARENA CHAPTER VI. A TRIP TO THE MOON CHAPTER VII. CYCLORAMAS The Electric Cyclorama The Painted Cyclorama CHAPTER VIII. FIREWORKS WITH DRAMATIC ACCESSORIES BOOK IV. AUTOMATA AND CURIOUS TOYS CHAPTER I. AUTOMATA Automaton Chess Players The Automation Chess Player A Curious Automaton &n Electric Tachyscope "Apparatus for Projecting Moving Pictures by the Dmeny, Jenkins, Lumière, and Other Forms of Apparatus" The Kinetoscope Stereopticon "The Mutoscope and the Mutograph, with Illustrations of Moving Objects" Cinematograph Camera Camera for Ribbon Photography The Micromotoscope APPENDIX. ADDITIONAL TRICKS The Magic Table Gone The Spider and the Fly The Trunk Trick La Strobeika Persane Metempsychosis BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON NATURAL MAGIC INDEX

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0486265617
• ISBN 13: 9780486265612
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576
• Redattore: Hopkins Albert A.