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Copperfield then descends into a glass box, which is covered with a lid, and continues to float inside it. The method was created by John Gaughan, [6] [7] who described how the trick works in US Patent #5,354,238. [6] [7] The illusion utilises a series of wires controlled by a complex computer-controlled rig above the stage. In the glass box ...
During the later phases of the performance, two hoops are used simultaneously, which aids the deception as the hoops do not come into contact with the wires. Instead, each ring is brought flush to the wires before being twisted under Copperfield.
Dorothy Dietrich (in white) performing her version of the illusion in 1981. The bullet catch is a stage magic illusion in which a magician appears to catch a bullet fired directly at them — often in the mouth, sometimes in the hand or sometimes caught with other items such as a dinner plate.
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List of Illusions Revealed Episode One October 2, 2008 (US) June 13, 2010 (HK) Death Saw (Magician gets cut into two via an industrial saw) Vanishing Toothpick; Cut and Restore a Rope; De Kolta Chair (The Vanishing Lady) Penetrate Rubber Sheet With a Coin; Turning a Bentley into a Lamborghini (with the WWE divas Eve Torres and Maria Kanellis ...
Zaleski places the ball in the cup and caps it with the lid before picking it up and shaking it around, slyly removing the ball while the cup is out of of the orangutan's field of vision. When he ...
Levitation: The magician defies gravity, either by making something float in the air, or with the aid of another object (suspension)—a silver ball floats around a cloth, an assistant floats in mid-air, another is suspended from a broom, a scarf dances in a sealed bottle, the magician levitates his own body in midair.