I was watching the world's greatest magic show the a few days ago and
although i knew how every other trick was done, i was, embarassingly
enough, not able to totally figure out the trick where a magician made the
space shuttle disappear though the camera was continuously running and all
that took place was for a brief second, a small sheet was drawn up..and
then it appeared gone....
i know the solution to the D.C. statue of liberty trick but that doesnt
seem to work here because there was virtually no time to 'revolve'
anything, nevermind an entire audience on some platform...
does anybody know about this one?
-anthony
>...though the camera was continuously running and all
>that took place was for a brief second...
How do you know this?
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> Hi..:-)
> i know the solution to the D.C. statue of liberty trick but that doesnt
> seem to work here because there was virtually no time to 'revolve'
> anything, nevermind an entire audience on some platform...
> does anybody know about this one?
> -anthony
are you saying that D.C made the statue disappear by revolving the audience?
david.p
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I wasn't paying much attention to this one, but consider this: All shots
of the shuttle were taken from the back of the audience, and in no shot
did the camera move from a stable position. It panned a bit, but did not
travel. That is, it swiveled about on its tripod and maybe even moved
forward & back a bit, but it never rolled from side to side. So there was
no compensation for the absence of parallax in the camera's single eye.
(Again, I wasn't watching much here so this could be all wet.)
It was announced several times that no camera tricks were used. But what
trick fools a camera? And nothing was said about the entire audience not
being shills, so why not? (Got it yet?) Last hint: if you can't make a
shuttle disappear, can you make a not-shuttle not disappear? And how much
*does* it cost to rent a space shuttle?
-------------spoiler follows-------------
Don't know if this is what was done, but this is how I'd do it. Hire an
audience, including those on the far platforms. Put up a flat or framed
canvas with the shuttle realistically painted on it (if it works for Star
Wars it'll work here.) Hold up a screen, drop the canvas, lower the
screen -- ta da. Audience sez "Oooooooooh!" Up the screen, up the
canvas, drop the screen -- ta da. Audience sez "Aaaaaaaah!"
Don't ask yourself how *he* did it. After all, you will *never* get
reliable confirmation of any explanation of a pro trick. So ask yourself
how would *you* would do it -- and if your version works: that's it!
But maybe it was magnets.
=Eric