Tuesday, September 21, 2021

A Brief History of Houdini's Water Torture Cell

Today I'm thrilled to help celebrate International Escapology Day with a brief history of Houdini's greatest escape. Oh, and that picture I promised. Enjoy!


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Thanks to Andrew Basso, Allan James Taylor, and everyone at the GEO for letting me join the celebration.

4 comments:

  1. Great photo! Thanks for posting it! There's quite a bit of photos from that USD session.

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    1. Indeed. There's another one taken at more of an angle. There's also the pic in Pictorial Life, but in that one you'll notice the assistants are dressed in rain slickers. I never caught this before -- in some shots the assistants are in slickers and some not.

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    2. Pictorial Life had a number of those USD photos from this session. It took up a whole page.

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    3. This is great, and thanks for sharing the photograph! It’s wonderful. I’m trying to discern what the floor directly in front of USD shows – at first I thought it was a reflection of the cell, or perhaps it’s the trap door in the stage used for draining?

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