stage illusion

The thing I saw being used that night was apparatus built for a stage illusion."

The system works as a modern commercial variation of a stage illusion called Pepper's ghost.

Most stage illusions depend on only one or two.

Therefore, his mind had turned to stage illusions as well as smaller devices.

Stage illusions are performed for large audiences, typically within a theatre or auditorium.

Standard stage illusions had been used to gull a group of suggestible and vulnerable people.

I built a reputation as a reliable inventor and ingénieur of stage illusions.

Craven, with Irving's support, carried scenic realism and stage illusion to new levels.

The Luna production presents no such stage illusion.

My business has given me an intimate knowledge of stage illusions, together with many years of experience among show people of all types.

Such was the interest in stage illusions at this time that my booking agent had little difficulty arranging what promised to be a major show.

All stage illusions are given names by their inventors, and it is by these that they become known in the profession.

The tour also incorporated several stage illusions.

Examples of stage illusions include sawing a woman in half and Lady-to-Tiger.

The title derives from the novel's fictional practice of stage illusions having three parts: the setup, the performance, and the prestige (effect).

Often, Jago employed his knowledge of stage illusions and contacts with London's lower classes to solve their cases.

Obsessed with creating the best stage illusion, they engage in competitive one-upmanship with tragic results.

One of Devant's stage illusions was to produce a floating apparition of his 'spirit wife'.

After so many years of bitter rivalry I could not allow one polished presentation of a stage illusion to make me humiliate myself before him.

For example, the famous Pepper's Ghost, a stage illusion first used in 19th-century London, required a specially built theatre.

The use of direct audience-address is one way of disrupting stage illusion and generating the distancing effect.

Stage illusions are large-scale magic tricks.

He has mentored a chosen cache of magicians in the art of stage illusion and magical performance.

While performing as a drummer in a rock band named Merlin, Osterlind would perform stage illusions.

"Stage Illusion"