Vanishing Motorbikes
Possibly his most famous illusion in this genre is his fantastic vanish of a motorcycle and rider which has since been presented for the amazements of audiences all over the world. This idea came to Van Buren in 1976 during a summer season with Windsor Davies and Don Estelle at the Pavilion Theatre in Felixstowe.
The Magic Circle heard about the illusion and even before it was finished booked Van Buren to perform in their 1976 Christmas Show at the Collegiate Theatre in London.
The first televised performance of this new unique illusion was in a Magic Circle show at Caesar’s Palace, Luton, in January 1977, a performance that created newspaper headlines. To lay people and magicians alike the illusion is a baffling impossibility.
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Famous quotes containing the word vanishing:
“The vanishing volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the Adamantine Record of the past.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)