Stage Illusion

Designer:
P.T. Selbit and David P. Abbott
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A painting mysteriously materializes in full view of the audience.

Designer:
Robert Harbin
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An assistant is wrapped in a cloth and levitated from an ornamented couch. The couch is removed and she remains floating.

Designer:
Robert Harbin
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An assistant is cut into thirds and her midsection removed.

Temple of Benares (aka Temple of Angee)
Designer:
Jack Gwynne
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An assistant enters a cabinet and is impaled with swords. The assistant vanishes and then reappears.

Designer:
P.T. Selbit
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Five assistants are instantly produced and then instantly vanished.

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P.T. Selbit
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Six girls are produced from 3 doors in an empty cabinet.

Designer:
Jim Steinmeyer
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An assistant is impossibly produced from an empty, canvas-framed box.

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The Marvelous Orange Tree
Designer:
Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
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A tree blossoms with oranges and flowers. The final orange splits in half and two butterflies come out holding a previously vanished lady’s handkerchief.

Designer:
P.T. Selbit
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A female assistant dressed as a princess is placed in a sarcophagus and stabbed with 30 blades and 12 rods. She emerges unharmed.

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P.T. Selbit
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An assistant is bound inside a cabinet. Various objects then materialize in the cabinet. The assistant is led from the cabinet to the wings, but instantly reappears back in the cabinet and is firmly tied.