LONDON — He came, he sawed, he conquered. One hundred years ago on Sunday, illusionist P.T. Selbit put a woman in a box on the stage of London's Finsbury Park Empire and sawed right through the wood, creating a magical classic.
"This took off and became the most influential and the most famous illusion, in my opinion, that there's ever been," said magician and historian Mike Caveney who is writing a book on the illusion. Sometimes he actually got injured, Copperfield said in an interview filmed for Sunday's online event.
It was recognized as two 50 year segments.
And people wonder why the world's population is out of control.
Serial killers mark 100 years of sawing people in half... It somehow read as an Onion article.
When they can saw an elephant in half call me. 🐘
This made me think of Roy, then that he died of Covid, and now I’m sad. I thought only clowns- both professionally and by nature- had that effect.
😀😃😄😁😆🙂😉😏😏😏
Got it
This is a dark milestone.
BarstoolYak
Hope this is the type of news we see for the next 4 years cause nothing else is happening.
Meh
Is this an Onion article you’re retweeting?
Fountains of Wayne’s “Half a Woman” is the quintessential song about this magic trick
Oh sure, when magicians do it it’s considered “fun” and “mysterious”, but when I do it I’m called a “psychopath” and “scaring the children” and police tell me to “put down the katana”
Yay?
Its actually 200 years, its just that a bunch of years are jammed up in there where you wouldn't think they would be able to quite fit.
100 years? Sounds agonizing.
Armmie Hammer would love to watch this. 😂
USPS We need a legends of magic line of stamps
Man you would think it would take 2, 3 minutes tops
...by sawing more people in half 🤦🏻♂️ 😂
Yet not one has been arrested!!!
For the first 20 or 30 years they used identical twins and actually sawed one of them in half, but they ran out of twins and, from then on, had to resort to cheap trickery.
I thought this was an onion article at first glance.
Haven't seen a magic show special in awhile...
we just let these monstrous sorcerers bisect our women FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
kyduchess Is he cosplaying Rasputin? LOL
Seriously wtf is wrong with you
They came. They sawed. They prestidigitated.
Looks more like 50 years
Who is going to stop them?
Congrats to them and their better half
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