Licensed by the George Eastman House Motion Picture Departmentįeaturing Harry Houdini, Gladys Leslie, William Humphrey Music composed and performed by Ben Model
Music composed and performed by Clark Wilson An examination of scenes deleted by the New York Censor Board.THE MASTER MYSTERY is continued on DVD 2 of this collection. THE GRIM GAME (Fragment, 1919, 5 Min., Color Tinted) HALDANE OF THE SECRET SERVICE (1923, 84 Min., Color Tinted) THE MAN FROM BEYOND (1922, 68 Min., Color Tinted) THE MASTER MYSTERY (1919, 238 Min., Color Tinted) Culled from film archives and private collections, this Kino DVD set includes all of Houdini's surviving films as an actor, rare footage of actual handcuff and straitjacket escapes, and a wealth of historical information. Having conquered the stage, he set out to rule the screen, appearing in a series of thrillers built upon his almost supernatural powers. Finally, of special interest to many readers are Houdini’s accounts of great magicians of history and of Houdini’s own battles with spiritualists and fraudulent mediums.By the year 1919, Harry Houdini was known throughout the world as a master magician and escape artist. These are illustrated with diagram sequences that cover every step in performance. There are also instructions for performing 44 stage tricks, including the coin and glass, the Indian needle trick, and other standards. This book is Houdini’s own account of these exploits, supplemented with rare photographs and posters, first-hand material from periodicals and pamphlets, and behind-the-scenes revelations of some of the master’s most prized secrets: how he picked locks, how he sawed a girl in half to become twins, how he walked through a brick wall, how a girl can vanish from a sheet of plate glass without trapdoors, hoists, mirrors, or other such apparatus.
He permitted himself to be thrown, manacled, into the Hudson River to be nailed into packing cases and lowered into the ocean to be suspended by the ankles, strait-jacketed, hundreds of feet above the ground - and in every case escaped easily. Many of his fabulous escapes, indeed, now sound more like legend than history, yet they really happened. Harry Houdini’s fame is secure as the greatest magician of modern times.
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