ON TV - Orson Welles at The Magic Castle (1978) [LOST Special]

 

Magic by Mr. Creepy Toy Ad (1996)

 

Johnny Quick Magic Shop, Atlantic City, New Jersey

 

• Margolies, John, photographer
• 1978.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017711956/
  

[Houdini makes spirit hands]

 

Houdini's 150th birthday today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini

• [ca. 1923]
• -  In this sequence of photographs Houdini demonstrated how spirit hands that appeared at seances were made by less ethereal beings. In "A magician among the spirits" Houdini described the mediumistic fraud known as "finger-printing a spirit." A mold of a dead person's hand would be carefully prepared and, during a seance with the believed relatives, fingerprints of the deceased would appear on a lampblacked trumpet. In his book Houdini stated the following: "There are two cases on record where fortunes were at stake because of this sort of fraud. In one case five hundred thousand dollars changed hands upon the recognition of the finger prints of a man who had died two years before."
  https://www.loc.gov/item/96519247/
  

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

 

c1914.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636960/

[Magician pulling roses out of top hat surrounded by supernatural beings]

 

c1892.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636963/

[Zan Zig performing in four magic vignettes]

 

c1899.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636961/

Thurston, master magician and his pets

 

c1898.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636957/

Von Arx, magician, illusionist

 

c1900.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636878/

Thurston's greatest mystery the vanishing whippet Willys-Overland car : the wonder show of the universe.

 

c1925.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636953/

The world famous self-liberator, Houdini the supreme ruler of mystery

 

1914.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636904/

The mental wizard, Newmann the man who knows and his deluxe show of wonders : featuring the world famous Simla seance.

 c1930.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636930/

Marajah peer of mystic seers : he sees, knows, tells all.

 

1923.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014635613/

Houdini, nothing on earth can hold Houdini!

 

c1901.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636903/

Herrmann the Great Co.

 c1898.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014637423/

Lord of Illusions (1995)

 

Directed by Clive Barker. Scott Bakula, occult private detective. Now on Tubi. I have a couple of his books and Nightbreed but I don't remember this one at all. Private detective Scott Bakula sold me. Kevin J. O'Connor. Famke Janssen. Daniel von Bargen. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Illusions

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lord-of-illusions-1995

https://diaboliquemagazine.com/lord-illusions-collectors-edition-us-blu-ray-review/

https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=7285

Herrmann the Great Co.

 

c1898.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636899/

Houdini appears at the Empire Theatre, every evening this week

 

1904.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636907/

Return engagement of Hardeen, king of handcuffs the biggest vaudeville attraction in America.

 1900.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636897/

Harry Houdini, king of cards

 

Chicago : National Pr. & Eng. Co., [1895]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636910/