Who Dunnit & How Dunnit

I ran across this BBC production on the History of Magic in the vast innards of YouTube and found the show quite interesting. If you stick through all the historical bits you get a little reward, you get to see the Tower Bridge in London "vanish"...

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Part 4


Part 5


Part 6


If you watched the BBC you realize that they don't want to "spoil" the magic by telling you how it works. (OK, they show one bit by Penn & Teller that lifts the curtain so you can see the trick, but that's it.) So if you are a rationalist like myself, you are itching to understand how it works. Well, as they explained in the documentary, there was a TV series with the "Masked Magician" who gave away the tricks behind the magic. For those of you, like myself, who want to know and for whom the magic is not destroyed by knowing the trick, take a look here...

Turning a Lady into a Tiger:


The Chinese Latern Trick:


Levitating a Woman:


The Houdini Escape:


The Linking Rings:


The Magic Bag: