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The climax of the 1947 Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai takes place in a maze of mirrors. In the finale of Enter the Dragon (1973), Bruce Lee's character navigates a mirror maze by breaking through the mirrors. Francisco Scaramanga's "Fun House" in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun has a house of mirrors.
Boy's image in a distorting mirror. A distorting mirror, funhouse mirror or carnival mirror is a popular attraction at carnivals and fairs. [1] Instead of a normal plane mirror that reflects a perfect mirror image, distorting mirrors are curved mirrors, often using convex and concave sections to achieve the distorted effect. [2]
Guests are invited to enter exhibits like Roy Lichtenstein’s “Pavilion” and Salvador Dalí’s “Dalídom,” which utilize glass and mirrors, respectively, for the classic funhouse experience.
Today the most well-known of Ritchel's inventions is the funhouse mirror, originally dubbed by the inventor as "Ritchel's Laugh-O-Graphs." The curved and specially shaped mirrors reflect amusing, distorted images of anyone standing in front of them. Some credit Ritchel with inventing rollerskates. He did invent a toy bank in the shape of a ...
Pavillons de Bercy in Paris hosts five different worlds: a 19th century fairground, a curiosity-cabinet, a carnival, stunning gardens and a 1920s ballroom.
Unlike conventional mirrors which simply reflect objects at 90 degrees, this concoction reflects objects back at any angle. In other words, a device such as this would make aircraft, boats and ...
The museum included a collection of funhouse mirrors, mannequins sporting extra legs and arms, a "Death Ray" machine, Sally Rand's dancing slippers, a long row of electronic switches that randomly activated a variety of automatons, a nine-foot-tall "mummified Viking" called Olaf the Giant, and a talking skull wearing a Hitler moustache that ...
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