tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post3753238047333645803..comments2024-03-28T08:03:31.442-07:00Comments on WILD ABOUT HARRY: Houdini's Last Secrets episode 2 hits the markJohn Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-40523457673287194192019-01-15T12:25:10.688-08:002019-01-15T12:25:10.688-08:00Just read your 2011 post, "Did Houdini do the...Just read your 2011 post, "Did Houdini do the bullet catch in the 1890s?" Sounds like pretty persuasive evidence to me. (But now I'm wondering -- did the miraculous "rising" powers of Fleischmann's Yeast play a part in Houdini's levitation trick? ;)Tom and Johanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01133250855806942658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-74721293001513642082019-01-14T14:24:13.441-08:002019-01-14T14:24:13.441-08:00Pistols were popular with magicians in the 19th an...Pistols were popular with magicians in the 19th and early 20th century as catalysts for the magic. You borrowed an object from the audience, made it disappear, and fired the pistol at some container that held the borrowed object to make it reappear inside that.<br /><br />Harry is doing the color changing silk in the photo. Silk effects were, and still are usually combined, so for example you Leo Heviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990057178465581105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-89695393568879006362019-01-14T11:58:02.078-08:002019-01-14T11:58:02.078-08:00The Carette and the Buried Alive, yeah, both very ...The Carette and the Buried Alive, yeah, both very much worth investigation. And while I was skeptical of the Bullet Catch at first, I see how it turned out to be a worthy topic. Maybe there are others more worthy, but I think it worked.<br /><br />I think that gun is intriguing.John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-55638608610039010642019-01-14T11:05:40.818-08:002019-01-14T11:05:40.818-08:00By the same token, we can't be certain he did ...By the same token, we can't be certain he did the Bullet Catch. So far the Russian Carette escape is the only effect that jibes with the title of this program. We still don't know exactly how Harry escaped from that paddywagon--if he ever did. Picked the lock? Can opener thru the floor?<br /><br />I thought this program would focus on his last secrets such as the Mirror Challenge, which Leo Heviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990057178465581105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-1459525652733949462019-01-14T10:41:13.081-08:002019-01-14T10:41:13.081-08:00I'm surprised to see this is a topic that peop...I'm surprised to see this is a topic that people seem to dig in on (on social media at least). "Houdini never did the bullet catch!” Where does such certainly come from? Even in the story of Houdini cutting the trick in 1918 it's never said he had not done the trick before. Just that he wouldn't do it then. <br /><br />Even then, I don't think he cut it because he believed John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.com