#Cutting someone in half magic trick tv#
A TV station would not allow this graphic video to be shown without some form of censorship, nor would YouTube if it were real. If this guy killed his wife in an ‘apparent’ accident – he would have been taken in as it would have been more suspicious as they would have to explore any possible motives for deliberately killing her – again, this would have been BIG news.įifth – It is narrated as if a documentary – from which programme and by which network exactly? Certainly not the UK. Third – how can she replce her own head with a fake one if the box is open so you can see it?įourth – There is no historical record of this online (This would have been big news) – the only case of such an accident happening was a magician at a performance cutting his non-related assistant through the middle and he promptly fainted when blood flooded the stage – he was later arrested and taken in for questioning over the incident. Second – if he cuts her throat with a chainsaw the jugular is going to expell approximately 7.5 pints of blood at high pressure and the whole front row is going to be awash – there was hardly any, especially as in point 1 above, there would be more blood expelled from the mouth and that gag would have been drenched.
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“Debbie has been sliced, diced, cremated, crushed, divided and decapitated more than most so has a great story to tell,” said Britten.ĭetails of how to watch the Facebook streamed event will be on the Magic Circle Unlocked Facebook page.First – why gag her so she can’t call out? No point in this trick, unless it’s to highlight the blood expelled from the mouth in the last images – that’s why it’s white. The evening will also see Debbie McGee, the partner of the late Paul Daniels on stage and in life, recounting her experiences of being regularly dismembered.
It came after Pankhurst had advertised her services in a newspaper for “remunerative, non-political work” and while it was entrepreneurial of Selbit to offer, it was also “hugely disrespectful,” said Paxton. Naomi Paxton, an academic and performer and the Circle’s equality and diversity officer, will explore the illusion’s links to suffrage and reveal how Selbit audaciously invited the militant suffragette Christabel Pankhurst to become part of his act by being the woman sawn in two. The US magician David Copperfield will show viewers round his magic museum in Las Vegas and talk about his interpretation, using a huge “death saw” which cut through him after he failed to escape the table. “You don’t forget it,” said Houstoun who was too young to watch it in the first place. It involved medical staff sawing through Drake from his crotch up to his chest and Drake not waking up. Houston said one of the most memorable versions for him was by Simon Drake in the late night 1990s Channel 4 show Secret Cabaret. “The switchboard was jammed with people thinking they had just witnessed a murder,” said Britten. The Magic Circle is planning an evening of online events around the history of the illusion telling stories such as how the BBC shocked the British nation in 1956, broadcasting a Panorama programme that featured the Great Sorcar slicing a young woman in half with a circular saw.īecause the show was live and out of time, the presenter Richard Dimbleby stepped in to say goodbye before the woman came back to life. “It would have been quite a lengthy process … I suspect attention spans would be slightly different today.” Houstoun said Selbit’s original illusion did not have the woman’s head and feet sticking out the box, which would become the tradition.
“As an effect it has a neatness about it and has a huge amount of scope for development and reinvention.”
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“It is a very simple, clear idea and is easily understandable as impossible,” said Will Houstoun, magician in residence at Imperial College’s department of surgery. Since then it has been performed by countless magicians in many different ways. The illusion was invented by Tibbles, who understandably went by the stage name of PT Selbit, and was first performed at the Finsbury Park Empire in north London on 17 January 1921. Photograph: Jasper Maskelyne/ David McKay Company The magician PT Selbit performing the sawing trick.
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