On Magic

Harry Houdini

ISBN 10: 0486203840 / ISBN 13: 9780486203843

Editore: Dover Publications Inc., 2003

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Riassunto:

Harry Houdini&;s fame is secure as the greatest magician of modern times. Many of his fabulous escapes, indeed, now sound more like legend than history, yet they really happened. He permitted himself to be thrown, manacled, into the Hudson River; to be nailed into packing cases and lowered into the ocean; to be suspended by the ankles, strait-jacketed, hundreds of feet above the ground &; and in every case escaped easily.
This book is Houdini&;s own account of these exploits, supplemented with rare photographs and posters, first-hand material from periodicals and pamphlets, and behind-the-scenes revelations of some of the master&;s most prized secrets: how he picked locks, how he sawed a girl in half to become twins, how he walked through a brick wall, how a girl can vanish from a sheet of plate glass without trapdoors, hoists, mirrors, or other such apparatus.
There are also instructions for performing 44 stage tricks, including the coin and glass, the Indian needle trick, and other standards. These are illustrated with diagram sequences that cover every step in performance. Finally, of special interest to many readers are Houdini&;s accounts of great magicians of history and of Houdini&;s own battles with spiritualists and fraudulent mediums.

Contenuti: I HOUDINI ON HANDCUFF AND RESTRAINTS Light on Jail Breaking The Straightjacket Release Skeleton Keys The German Transport Chain Lock Picking Implements Opening Sealed Handcuffs The Plug-Eight Handcuff English Regulation Cuffs Moscow Escape Cologne Police Libel Suit The Spirit Collar The Champion Lock Cuff II HOUDINI ON ROPE MAGIC Know Your Ropes A Simple Release Three Effects With the Handcuff Tie The Thumb Tie The Clothesline Tie Simplex Tie Underwater Escape Spectacular Escapes The Big Wheel Release North American Indian Tie Russian Transport Tie Houdini's Full View Release III HOUDINI ON MAGICIANS Doctor Katterfelto Philadelphia Wiljalba Frikell Johann N. Hofzinser George Heubeck Wyman the Wizard IV HOUDINI ON CHALLENGES AND ESCAPES The Sailor Challenge The Wet Sheet Test The Blanket Restraint The Pasteboard Box Escape The Paper Bag Escape The Basket Escape Ladders and Rope Challenge The Great Cell Mystery The Barrel Challenge The Mail Bag Escape The Spanish Maiden The Double Box Escape V HOUDINI ON SPOOKS Spiritualism Sweeping the World Houdini Before Congress A Marvelous Coincidence The Spirit Knots The Vanishing Knot The Spirit Release Table Lifting Spiritualistic Secret Library Directory Service The Zan Zic Slate The Talking Skull Spirit Photos The Vest Turning Mystery "Margery" the Medium Exposed" VI HOUDINI ON TRICKS Coin and Glass Four Coin Assembly Hypnotic Match Box The Uncanny Glass A Spooky Ball The Astonishing Egg A New Dyeing Tube Spirits of Aqua Magnetic Matches The Traveling Die Restoring a Match Tri-Color Cards The Imprisoned Card The Houdini Card Multiple Card Prediction The Photogenic Card Cut and Restored String Cone and Egg Card in Egg Finding a Chosen Card The Balancing Magic Wand Cigar on Hat Exchanging a Marked Coin The Ribbon Escape Kellar's Wine and Ribbon Lifting a Human Being With Power From Eyes The Hindoo Boiling and Disappearing Water Trick The Spelling Bee Card Trick A Mind Reading Effect Coin Balanced on Sword A Vanish in Mid-Air Sawing a Woman into Twins The Transformation Cabinet The Flight of Venus The Giant Ball of Wool A Vanish From a Ladder Walking Through a Brick Wall A Second-Sight Act The Watch Test "The Figure Test to 10,000" The Playing Card Test The Slate Test The Book Test The Colored-Pencil Test Presentation of the Act VII HOUDINI ON MISCELLANEOUS MYSTERY Addressing An Audience Hints for Young Magicians under Eighty Bobby The Art of Cryptography Scytala Laconias Check Board Cypher Deciphering Secret Codes Argamasilli - X-ray Eyes Ching Ling Foo's Paper Trick VIII HOUDINI ON THE RIGHT WAY TO DO WRONG Cheating Uncle Sam Tricks Of the Bunco Men Thieves And Their Tricks Pickpockets At Work Humbugs

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Titolo: On Magic
Casa editrice: Dover Publications Inc.
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Used; Good