Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography, published in 1897, was compiled by Albert A. Hopkins from the pages of the Scientific American and its supplement, with an introduction on the history of magic by Henry Ridgely Evans. It explains, with diagrams, how the great stage illusions of the day were done: the vanishing lady, the decapitated princess, the Cabaret du Neant, black art, the talking head, the haunted swing and the cabinets and effects of Robert-Houdin, Pepper, Maskelyne, Herrmann and Kellar. Chapters follow on conjuring tricks, jugglers and acrobats, ventriloquism, the temple tricks and automata of antiquity, theatrical science and stage effects, curious toys, trick photography, chronophotography and the projection of moving pictures. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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