“Sawing a Woman in Half” is one of the most popular illusions ever created. It became the ultimate cliché, the synonym for magic and magicians. Why did it happen? Why was this strange idea so successful? And what is the real secret of its success? To answer this question, we have to go back in time and talk about decadence, French theatre of horrors, suffrage movement, magicians P.T.Selbit and Horace Goldin and explore many other fascinating stories.
Ready for “The Sawing” night? Watch these if you have not yet and leave your links in the comments!
Selbit's version performed by Paul Daniels
• Paul Daniels Sawing in...
Harry Blackstone Jr.
• Video
Doug Henning
• Doug Henning on Night ...
Jonathan Pendragon
• zersägte Jungfrau - Ch...
Dani Lari
• Pendulum Cutting in Th...
Penn and Teller
• Cutting A Women in Two...
David Copperfield
• David Copperfield - De...
Some literature on the subject
Horace Goldin “It’s fun to be fooled”
Jim Steinmeyer “Sensations” (in “Hiding the Elephant”)
Melbourne Christopher “The Illustrated History of Magic”
Geoffrey Lamb “Victorian Magic"
The Sphinx, February 1911
Magic magazine edited by Ellis Stanyon, October 1900
Old newspapers (amazing archive, but not free)
www.britishnewspaperarchive.c...
16 янв 2021
