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The Great Harry Houdini!

Harry Houdini and Art of Escape

By Zuvin MaharzanPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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Houdini was so amazing that some magicians became jealous and tried to repeat his escape. His expertise was in escape operations, a special feature of magic that was removed from the theater because it challenged real witches to control it. During the escape, Houdini's wife wrote, "This is the most dangerous thing I've ever had," and Houdini admitted he was afraid to run away.

While practicing card fraud and traditional magic, Harry Houdini was famous for his ability to escape anything and everything, including ropes, handcuffs, knives, prison cells, milk cans full of water, nails, locked boxes, and even threw them into the river. By 1900 he had begun to gain international recognition for his courageous efforts to free the chains, ropes and chains, and various closed containers, from milk bottles to boxes to prison cells.

In Europe, he succeeded in escaping from a Siberian transport cell in 1903 and using a metal wheel used to free political rebels from prison. Later, Harry Houdini expanded his repertoire to include chains and ropes thrown from buildings, straitjackets, and water after escaping by holding his breath in a closed milk jug with water inside. In the early 1900s, he continued to appear in the United States, where he wore handcuffs, a straitjacket, locks, water tanks, nails, and packing boxes.

Harry Houdini continued his flight until his death on October 31, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Houdini was born in Budapest in 1874 to Jewish parents and grew up in the United States until he was four years old. Beginning in the 1890s, he began making magical tricks and escaping handcuffs and locked suitcases in various exhibitions.

Harry Houdini made him one of the most famous magicians for his great deception and courageous, amazing escape attempts. Inspired by magic from a young age, Houdini began to do professional work and attracted attention with his escape efforts. In his later years, he brought his talents to the theater where he performed professionally and founded the film laboratory called Film Development Corporation.

After making a name for himself in America, he toured Europe, expanding his song by fleeing the straitjacket and box. During his journey through Asia, he became interested in mystery and passed on his role in that of magic. He performed on a wooden screen where magic contained no secret of living magic but became one of Hollywood's first action heroes, and his films delight audiences around the world.

An easy escape was not enough; he had to pass it on to himself and his audience. In his forties, he was happy that he could escape as if it had been saved.

In 1911, the famous heretic Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz or Erich Weiß) performed a famous act called the "China Water Torture Cell", which covered his feet in a cell where he was chained in the air and lowered into a glass. water tank. Houdini died of his own free will, as did his brother Hardeen, a good magician himself.

Houdini was born a skeptic and spent most of the 1920s on a campaign to sue and expose spirits, a pseudo-religion whose followers claimed it was possible to communicate with the dead through shamanic traditions and that the media were among their greatest psychological deceptions. During his exploits, Houdini exposed many of the deceptions of spiritism and wrote a masterpiece, the Mage of the Mind, describing spiritual deception. At the medical show where he performed his act of escape, audience numbers began to dwindle, and Drs. Hill asked him if he could transform himself into a rational person.

That machine brought millions of dollars to the courts and more enemies than Houdini, who was born with doubts, but at the time of his death, he showed no signs of retreat. A few months later, he testified before Congress in support of a law banning divination in Washington, D.C.

His ability to free himself from his chains of hardship and to confuse people in all parts of the world. Houdini is known to have been very ill when he arrived eight days later, but the severity of his condition was only apparent when he fell at the end of his opening. At the time, witch doctors and doctors believed that peritonitis was caused by an appendix rupture, the result of gelding given by J. Gordon Whitehead during their back meeting in Montreal.

In 1923, he became president of Martinka & Co., an old American magic company. Houdini's brother Theodore Hardeen has left his job as a sangoma and a skipper to run his film laboratory - Film Development Corporation (FDC).

In 1906, Houdini, a witch doctor and escape artist began showing films about his escape outside as part of his various exhibitions. In Boston, he presented a short film entitled "Houdini defeats Hackenschmidt." One of the tactics he used to advertise his American appearance was to escape from the cell held by the assassin President James Garfield and pull out a straitjacket, look down, was released from a nailed pack box, and plunge into the water.

Houdini performed at the Hammerstein Theater in New York, known for weeding, tire grabbing, and chain-breaking from March 30 to April 4, 1908. He also performed handcuffs at Metamorphosis, posh Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto. and San Francisco. In 1908, the "Milk Escape Tour" took him to Europe, where he appeared as the star of Germany's Circus Busch.

The new exhibition features a story about spiritual magic, escaping from a coffin, and Chinese water abuse that became one of Houdini's most famous antics. During the ordeal, Houdini's hands and feet were tied behind his back and lowered and locked in a glass container filled with water.

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Zuvin Maharzan

Always have been a MCU lover.

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