Word: houdin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happens is that the fakir wears a harness, or corset-like arrangement. . . . Enclosed herewith are photostats from the most famous book of magic ever written-Modern Magic by Professor Hoffman, which was written in England in the early 1890's. . . . Note that it was in 1849 that Robert-Houdin, famous French magician, first exposed the Indian methods publicly. . . . All of the sideshow workers in the U. S. that I ever knew used this corset arrangement. JULIEN J. PROSKAUER...
...About 1909, George Melies, a magician of the Theatre Robert Houdin in Paris, gave the motion picture new life by applying the camera to feats of magic using fade-outs, dissolves and double exposures...