1910-1926AMERICAN ICONS
HIGH QUALITY RARE HARRY HOUDINI FOOTAGE INCLUDING HOUDINI'S FUNERAL AND MANY OF HIS MOST FAMOUS STUNTS AND ESCAPES TAKEN FROM HIGH QUALITY 35MM NITRATE ORIGINALS WHICH NO LONGER EXIST.
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MAGICIAN-ESCAPE ARTIST HARRY HOUDIN HOISTED BY HIS FEET BY GROUP OF UNIFORMED POLICEMEN AT LIVE PUBLIC APPEARANCE. BOUND & GAGGED IN STRAIGHT-JACKET, HE WIGGGLES & TWISTS FREEING HIMSELF.
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| 01:00:45 44.53 |
HOUDINI FREES HIS HANDS & DROPS HIS COAT. LOWERED DOWN
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| 01:01:08 67.53 |
MAN IN STRAW HAT TYING-UNTYING HOUDINI AS HE SITS ON WOODEN PLATFORM. HOUDINI SHAKES HANDS WITH POLICEMEN
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| 01:01:15 74.53 |
PAN SHOT OF CROWD & POLICEMEN AT FAIRGROUNDS OR PARK.
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| 01:01:25 84.53 |
HARRY HOUDINI'S FUNERAL IN EARLY NOVMEBER 1926 (HOUDINI DIED ON HALLOWEEN). PALL BEARERS CARRYING FLOWER-COVERED CASKET
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| 01:01:29 88.53 |
LOAD COFFIN INTO HEARSE PARKED ON CURB OUTSIDE FUNERAL HOME.
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| 01:01:40 99.53 |
CROWD OF MEN WITH HATS ON SIDEWALK AS HEARSE LEAVES.
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| 01:02:00 119.53 |
HUGE FLORAL ARRANGEMENT READS "MOTHER - LOVE"
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| 01:02:14 133.53 |
FLOWERS COVER GROUND AT GRAVESITE IN QUEENS, NEW YORK.
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| 01:02:28 147.53 |
HEARSE ARRIVES AT CEMETARY AS LIMOUSINES FOLLOW.
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| 01:02:34 153.53 |
PALL BEARERS REMOVE CASKET FROM HEARSE & CARRY IT TO GRAVEYARD.
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| 01:02:53 172.53 |
WOMAN IN BLACK VEIL HELPED OUT OF LIMOUSINE (PROBABLY BESS, HOUDINI'S WIDOW-WIFE). FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOLLOW.
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| 01:03:02 181.53 |
BRIEF SHOT OF CASKET LOWERED INTO GROUND.
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| 01:03:04 183.53 |
WIDE SHOT OF CASKET BEING CARRIED OUT OF FUNERAL HOME & PUT INTO HEARSE WHILE CROWD IS GATHERED ON SIDEWALK
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| 01:03:24 203.53 |
POLICEMAN ON HORSEBACK & SIDEWALK LINED WITH SPECTATORS PAN DOWN STREET. "PAILLARD" & "SPAGHETTI HOUSE" MARQUEES VISIBLE
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| 01:03:38 217.53 |
HIGH ANGLED SHOT OF FUNERAL PROCESSION PASSING THROUGH RESIDENTIAL QUEENS, 1926. LINE OF HEARSES LIMOS APPROACH CEMETARY LED BY MOTORCYCLE COP.
MOTORCADE. |
| 01:03:54 233.53 |
HIGH ANGLED SHOT OF PALLBEARERS REMOVING CASKET FROM HEARSE AT MACHPELAH CEMETARY, JEWISH CEMETARY IN QUEENS. CARRY COFFIN OVER TO GRAVESITE CROWDED WITH MOURNERS
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| 01:04:40 279.53 |
WIFE BESS HOUDINI ASSISTED BY FRIENDS LAYS FLOWERS ON CASKET. FLOWERS TOSSED BY ALL SURROUNDING CASKET.
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| 01:05:05 304.53 |
DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF HOUDINI STUNT:
MEN ON DOCK ATTACK HOUDINI & STUFF HIM INTO WOODEN BOX. STRUGGLE & FIGHT, BRAWL ON DOCK. POSSIBLY FROM HOUDINI MOVIE: "MAN OF MYSTERY" |
| 01:05:31 330.53 |
BAD GUYS HAMMER SHUT TOP OF WOODEN BOX.
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| 01:05:36 335.53 |
WOMAN IN WHITE DRESS & HAT WALKING ON DOCKSIDE PIER.
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| 01:05:40 339.53 |
CU HEROINE LOOKING OUT TO SEA.
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| 01:05:43 342.53 |
BAD GUYS IN CAPS SNEAK UP.
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| 01:05:44 343.53 |
BIZARRE ROBOT WALKS ON DOCK.
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| 01:05:49 348.53 |
HEROINE GETS FRIGHTENED AS BAD GUYS & ROBOT COME AFTER HER
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| 01:05:58 357.53 |
MAN LIFT WOODEN BOX & BRING IT TO EDGE OF DOCK.
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| 01:06:09 368.53 |
WOMAN IN DISTRESS LEAPS OFF DOCK
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| 01:06:12 371.53 |
WOMAN ENDS UP INTO ROWBOAT THAT FLOATS UNDER DOCK.
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| 01:06:27 386.53 |
BAD GUYS DROP HARRY IN BOX INTO WATER
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| 01:06:48 407.53 |
BOX SINK TO BOTTOM OF SEA WITH HARRY'S ARMS GRAPPLING. BUBBLES RISING. IN SECONDS HARRY IS FREE &
SWIMMING AROUND CRATE. |
| 01:07:09 428.53 |
HARRY COMES TO SURFACE & SWIMS TOWARD WOMAN IN BOAT.
THEY CLIMB ONTO DOCK. |
| 01:07:40 459.53 |
BUSY PARIS STREET SCENE WITH STREETCAR, BICYCLE, HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE. & PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. "OMNIBUS DE PARIS" ON TROLLEY
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| 01:08:03 482.53 |
"LE PETIT JOURNAL" ON TOP OF LARGE CITY BUILDING.
PEOPLE BOARDING & GETTING OFF TROLLEY. EARLY 1920s PARIS, BUSTLING CITY. |
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PAN DOWN CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE INSCRIBED WITH HIEROGLYPHS
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| 01:09:14 553.53 |
HOUDINI WALKS UP STONES STEPS. EIFEL TOWER IN BKGD
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| 01:09:41 580.53 |
ASKS DIRECTIONS OF FRENCH POLICEMAN.
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AT FOOT OF THE EIFEL TOWER. HOUDINI STOPS AT POSTER-
STREWN PUBLIC BATHROOM-PILLAR & GOES IN & OUT |
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HOUDINI & ANOTHER MAN COME OUT TOGETHER
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| 01:11:16 675.53 |
HOUDINI RUNS TOWARD TOILET AS IF BEING CHASED
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