Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century

by Matthew Solomon (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $25.61

  Reveals how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. This book focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually made magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929. It combines film and theatre history to uncover the evidence of the exchanges between magic and filmmaking in the United States and France.