Magicians were very much involved in the birth of the movie industry. Not only
were many magicians exhibitors of films, but many were involved as performers and
producers. Harry Houdini made several silent films and was the creator of many
special effects; magician George Melies bought the Robert-Houdin Theatre and
exhibited the first motion picture seen in Paris.
Matthew Buchinger, one of the premier Cups and Balls performers of the 18th century,
was born without arms or legs and was 29 inches tall. Despite all that, he was a master
magician, a calligrapher and a musician who played the flute, trumpet, bagpipes and
dulcimer. He married four times and fathered 11 children.
Charles Dickens was an enthusiastic amateur magician. In August 1849,
in one of his most ambitious performances he introduced himself as
“The Unparalleled Necromancer Rhia Rhama Rhoos, educated cabalistically
in the orange groves of Salamanca and the ocean caves of Alum Bay.”
The skill of the magician is in getting an audience to focus its attention where
he wants it at a specific instant.
David Copperfield is the highest paid magician being named
on the fortune 500’s list.
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Doc Nixon, an american magicican who gained fame workining in an
Orental custome, literally vanished in late 1939. Persistant rumors that
he abandon all to become a Tibetian monk was never proved.
Eliaser Bamberg, the 18th-century Dutch magician, was known as
“The Crippled Devil.” He had lost one of his legs in an explosion and
wore a wooden leg. The story goes that Eliase) had hollowed out his
wooden leg and used it as a secret hiding place for his magic props.
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Blackstone The Magician (as Harry Boughton was known) was characterized
as a popular comic book hero of the 1940s. In addition to touring America
with his spectacular illusion show, he appeared each month in Super Magician
Comics solving mysteries as a magician detective. Scroll down to listen to an
episode from the comic.
Blackstone the magician Sample episode