Stage Illusion

Designer:
Robert Harbin
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An assistant enters a beer barrel and is impaled with multiple rods. The rods are removed and she emerges unharmed.

Designer:
Guy Jarrett
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Multiple items are produced from a box, the finale being the production of an assistant from the same box.

Designer:
P.T. Selbit
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An assistant is visibly transmitted from one cabinet to another.

Broom Suspension
Designer:
Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
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The magician balances his assistant on the end of a broom

Buzz Saw (aka A Living Miracle)
Designer:
Horace Goldin
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An assistant would recline on a table without cover and the saw would cut through her midsection. She would then rise unharmed.

Designer:
Guy Jarrett
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The magician’s assistant enters a trunk and subsequenty vanishes from the trunk.

Chair Suspension
Designer:
Possibly U.F. Grant
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The magician balances an assistant on the back of a single chair

Chinese Water Torture Cell
Designer:
Harry Houdini
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The magician’s feet are locked into stocks. He’s lowered headfirst into a cell filled with water and attempts to escape.

Designer:
Guy Jarrett
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An assistant drapes a coat around her body and stands on a small table. She vanishes as the coat is raised by a rope.

Designer:
Richard A. Boehlke
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A plaster head of a woman is assembled on three poles and placed under a curtain. A live assistant then emerges, having been transformed.