Vintage magic posters make great Halloween decorations. Here's (above) one of my favorites. The paniced audience has been driven mad with fright.
This (above) is for Theory Cornerites who prefer simple, easy to read faces.
Is this (above) a detail from a book cover? I'm not sure. It would make a great stage set.
Robots (above) are a popular subject for porch decorations. IMO they're twice as effective if they're giving grief to a dummy.
This (above) is one of the all-time best magic posters. It's of Kellar and the date on it is 1894...120 years ago!
This looks like an old carnival sideshow banner, but it's rendered so beautifully that it might have been a poster.
Here's (above) another rendered sideshow banner, this time of a spider woman. I've seen this kind of thing before. I guess that was a common attraction way back when.
DonB sent a link to a site that featured plenty of women in sideshow spider outfits. I'll hazard a guess that the carnival made money by selling Polaroid-type photos of audience volunteers in costume.
Good topic as always. This Page has interesting information on the spider woman illusion.
ReplyDeleteDon: Thanks for the link! So that's what the spider attraction was all about...a photo prop so people could take pictures of their friends with spider bodies.
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