Lieu de publication : Portland

Éditeur : Green Bean Books

Date de publication : 2024

ISBN : 9781784388362

Langue : Anglais

Description : 1 sheet (folded in 40 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm

Sujets :
Houdini, Harry [magicien]
Magie - Fiction
Artistes de cirque - Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Funambules - Fiction
Magiciens - Biographies

Résumé :
The master of magic and escape got his start trying to walk a tightrope! It took the young Harry Houdini more than a few tries (and falls) to learn how to stay up there. This fun fold-out book is full of exciting information about Houdini’s life and greatest tricks.

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : CAR

Contenu : Ouvrages pour la jeunesse

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Houdini : art and magicBorn Ehrich Weiss in Budapest, Hungary, Harry Houdini (1874–1926) was a rabbi’s son who became one of the 20th century’s most famous performers. His gripping theatrical presentations and heart-stopping outdoor spectacles attracted unprecedented crowds, and his talent for self-promotion and provocation captured headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. This essays on the artist’s life and work documenting Houdini’s evolution and influence from the late 19th century to the present.[editor summary]
Houdini : his life-story : from the recollections and documents of Beatrice Houdini
Harry Houdini : a photographic story of a lifeHarry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, left his home in Wisconsin at the age of 12 to seek his fortune. But the factory work he found was dreary, and young Ehrich longed for excitement. Find out how he went from practicing coin tricks in his spare time to selling out the theaters of Europe - and how this son of poor immigrants transformed himself into the greatest magician in the world.
A magician among the spiritsHarry Houdini and his exposure of the fraud spiritualist, spirit photography, spirit slate writing, ectoplasm, clairvoyance, and other quakery and cons perpetrated on the gullible, by the likes of the Boston Medium Margery, the Davenport Brothers, Annie Eva Fay, the Fox Sisters, Daniel Dunglas Home, Eusapia Pallandino, and other con artists of their ilk.

The whole country got excited by Houdini's campaign against faking spiritualists. He careened through the country, offering money for spirit contacts he couldn't duplicate by admitted magical chicanery. It was a heyday not only for Houdini but for the spirit-callers and there was an equally famous protagonist who thought the spirits could indeed be contacted, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A photo at the front records a meeting between Houdini and Doyle and Houdini gives Doyle his own chapter. There's an earlier chapter on Daniel Dunglas Home, the English engineer of spectacular paranormal effects. Houdini raises hell with spiritualists who were giving their (usually paying) clients a vision of heavens to come, and shares the methods used to practice "fake" and sensational spiritualism.

Houdini was nothing if not unrelenting. As a taste of things to come, he ends his introduction with the words: "Up to the present time everything that I have investigated has been the result of deluded brains." [editor summary]
Houdini the movie star, DVD 2 : Terror island / The man from beyond / The master mystery
Les énigmes d'Houdini : plus de 100 énigmes inspirées par le maître de l'évasionSerez-vous vous sortir de la toile inextricable de ces énigmes ? Harry Houdini est le plus célèbre magicien et roi de l'évasion de tous les temps. Au tournant du XXe siècle, il laissait des dizaines de milliers de spectateurs abasourdis devant son incroyable répertoire de tours : se dégager de chaînes et de cadenas, sortir d'une tombe après avoir été enterré vivant, se libérer d'une camisole de force en étant suspendu à une grue... 100 énigmes illustrées, inspirées des exploits légendaires d'Harry Houdini. Des casse-tête en chaîne ! Une mauvaise réponse pourrait bien vous entraîner dans un cercle vicieux... Vos neurones seront vos seuls atouts dans ces situations inextricables !

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