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The First Film of a Magician    Richard Wiseman
Raynaly's Les Propos d'un Escamoteur on CD
1894 film of Raynaly

Jean Hugard's translation The Discourses of a Conjurer
Foreword
The Standing Joke
Illusionists
Necessary Qualities
Amateurs
Professor of...
Ballyhoo
Decorations
Child Magicians
Apparatus vs. Skill
Anecdote
Comedian
Art and State Aid
Magicians of the Road
Diverse Species
Playing Theatres
One-Night Operators
A Press Report
Café Workers: Country
Café Workers: Paris
The Raffle
Varying Grades
At the Fairs
Large Investment
The Spieler
Low Admissions
The Directors
Expenses
Charlatans
Paris Thirty Years Ago
Comte, Philippe, Bosco
Robin
Manicardi, Lassaigne
The Gun Trick
Decay of Magic Shows
Théâtre Robert-Houdin
Max Dessoir Article
Inaudi
Méliès
Present Conditions 1894
Myself
Patrizio
Carl Herrmann
Frizzo
Buatier De Kolta
Hartz: Devil of a Hat
Alexander Herrmann
The Salon Genre
Café Workers: Paris
Passing the Hat
Marco
Ring on Wand
Moreau: Marvelous
Magnetism: Description and Argument
A Hundred Years Ago
Donato
Myself a Subject
A Press Report
Professor Charcot
Carmelli
Dr. Festa
Mental Suggestion
Saldini
Program
Private Séance
My Wife Assists
Victor Hugo
Thorci
In the Lions' Cage
Spiritism
Specimens
Imagination
Slade: Slate Writer
Annie Abbott
Astrology
The Assaouas
Eating Cactus Leaf
Fire Trick
Eating Glass
Needle Through Cheek
Needle on Stomach
Walking on Swords
Eating Pebbles
Licking Red Hot Iron
Eating a Scorpion
Eating a Snake
Eye from Socket
Resumé
Conclusion
Exposers
Stage Exposures
True Magic

 
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