L’Album Merveilleux
Museum Treasures. It’s a night of Magic at the Movies. See a trick film where drawings come to life! Watch as the tricks of a medium are exposed by Hereward Carrington! Witness Harry Houdini escape from straightjackets! Gasp as a manacled Houdini jumps off the Weighlock Bridge in downtown Rochester in 1907! These sensational short films are followed by a feature that Houdini called “a counterfeiting story of thrills galore.” Live piano by Philip C. Carli.
L’Album Merveilleux [Incomplete]
(Gaston Velle, France 1905, 1 min., 35mm)
Unmasking the Mediums
(Bray-Paramount, US 1917, 4 min., 35mm)
[Houdini Stunts]
(US ca. 1907–1923, 19 min., 35mm)
Haldane of the Secret Service
(Harry Houdini, US 1923, 84 min., 35mm)
All of the films in this program have been preserved by the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum. Special presentation by Jeffrey Stoiber, assistant curator, the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.