Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography. Albert A. Hopkins
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Albert A. Hopkins
Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664649997
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION. THE MYSTERIES OF MODERN MAGIC.
BOOK I. CONJURERS’ TRICKS AND STAGE ILLUSIONS.
CHAPTER I. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES.
CHAPTER III. MISCELLANEOUS STAGE TRICKS.
CHAPTER V. JUGGLERS AND ACROBATIC PERFORMANCES.
CHAPTER VI. FIRE EATERS AND SWORD TRICKS.
CHAPTER VII. VENTRILOQUISM AND ANIMATED PUPPETS.
CHAPTER I. TEMPLE TRICKS OF THE GREEKS.
CHAPTER II. MIRACULOUS VESSELS OF THE GREEKS.
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE STEAM ENGINE.
CHAPTER IV. GREEK LAMPS, TOYS, ETC.
BOOK III. SCIENCE IN THE THEATER.
CHAPTER I. BEHIND THE SCENES OF AN OPERA HOUSE.
CHAPTER II. SOME REMARKABLE STAGES, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
CHAPTER V. THE NAUTICAL ARENA.
CHAPTER VI. A TRIP TO THE MOON.
CHAPTER VIII. FIREWORKS WITH DRAMATIC ACCESSORIES.
BOOK IV. AUTOMATA AND CURIOUS TOYS.
CHAPTER III. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS OF AN AMUSING NATURE.
BOOK V. PHOTOGRAPHIC DIVERSIONS.
CHAPTER II. CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHY.
CHAPTER III. THE PROJECTION OF MOVING PICTURES.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL MAGIC AND PRESTIDIGITATION. COMPILED, WITH NOTES, BY Henry Ridgely Evans .
MAGIC:
STAGE ILLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC DIVERSIONS,
INCLUDING TRICK PHOTOGRAPHY.
INTRODUCTION.
THE MYSTERIES