- How do you know this? Not saying you’re wrong, my explanation doesn’t contradict this, but wondering how you know.
And are you really saying the ‘rail’ was just square steel stock, not an actual rail with an I-beam-like shape?
What is his job here? A bunch of other people do all the real work. He removes the cover. Which is no more magical than putting it on, which the crew did. And you know someone else worked out all the details on how to do this. He’s just a guy with hair and wavy arms. No skill displayed.
I’ve sat across a table from David Copperfield at the Magic Castle in Hollywood and watched him do close-up and I can assure you that he’s a master magician.
Stage magic has always been a different genre. His “job” in that situation is to bring all those elements you speak of together. His job is also to have a name that people will pay to see.
Magic is above all, a performance, and that’s true whether it’s happening on stage or close up. Of the guys who specialize in stage magic, almost none of them design their own illusions.
The company was in the process of rebuilding passenger cars for Transcisco Tours which was a wholly owned subsidiary of the company I worked for. Shortly before my ‘tour of duty’ was up I was ‘volunteered’ to assist in clearing the space for the placement of the car in question. I know what the floor was and the ‘track’ set on the floor. My tour of duty ended the week before the extravaganza and I was watching from home. Therefore I cannot say exactly how they moved the car but I do know the floor and track setup as fact.
Transcisco Tours train is known as the ugliest train in America.
which bears the magic Q:
why is this post in my today’s feed (2nd of march 2024)?
am i time-travelling or is it a weired feb 29th thingy???
And now it’s in everybody’s feed.
It was bumped by an insane troll. And Discourse, in its infinite wisdom, keeps threads bumped even when the trolls who bump them get deleted.
Glad he put the Statue of Liberty back. I had hoped he had sorta dissapeared yet he’s right now working on the physics of making The Moon dissapear.
supposedly his proposed event will take 14 days …
jokes aside, (and talking about disappearance) … DC seems to have fallen out of favor in the past 10-20 years … at least from the A-celebrity list, right?
He still has a residency in Las Vegas. But I agree, his celebrity status is not what it used to be.
Well, I was one of those kids in that circle around the train and I can tell you all that everyone of y ideas as how it happened is wrong. I was there and I can’t even tell you how it happened. All I know is that is was awesome to watch close up and David was a great person to have met.
Is there any merit to David Copperfield’s magic tricks performed on TV to begin with? On TV you can use special effects. His claiming not to doesn’t mean he actually doesn’t.
I saw one of his shows on video as a kid, many years ago. I was probably 8 or 9, and remember being unimpressed way back then. There was a segment about him purportedly physically passing through the Great Wall of China. The host of the show said: “David Copperfield uses no special effects, and to prove it, we’re going to broadcast it in front of a real live audience!” So there was this big crowd of people in front of what was supposedly the Great Wall, and I remember thinking even as a boy that 1) the host could be lying for TV and 2) the audience could have been paid off to play along.
So then they put up this illuminated screen and instead of directly filming Copperfield’s passage through the wall head-on, they filmed it an angle; the screen was concealing his figure and you could only see his shadow through the screen as it appeared to disappear in the direction of the wall. Then they showed him on the other side, having somehow come out. To me that smacked highly of a lame attempt to fool the audience (the one sitting at home). We all know magicians are illusionists and not actual wizards, but then create a proper illusion. Don’t put a screen between yourself and what is actually happening. Or don’t attempt the act. I’ve seen better magic acts performed by the entertainment staff of a restaurant.
If it was awesome to watch, then why didn’t you? In the televised trick, all of the people in the circle were just looking straight across the circle at the people standing on the other side, ignoring the train car that was levitating over the middle of the circle.