Double Boxes

Double Boxes
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Designer: The Great Leon

The Double Boxes were a precursor to today's "Backstage with a Magician" illusion. A table supported two empty boxes. The smaller box was placed inside the larger and covered on top with a wooden frame housing a piece of paper. Leon would fire a pistol and the assistant (Edythe Packard) would burst through the paper lid.1

Photo Credit: Mike Caveney, Magical Publications

Sources

  1. Caveney, Mike. The Great Leon. Magical Publications, Pasadena, 1987, p. 41.