• Short Summary

    Magician Robert Harbin does a trick with a newspaper.

  • Description

    Part of ON THE SPOT issue.

    Pathe Studios, London.

    M/S of train with a man reading a newspaper superimposed on top of it. Various shots of celebrated conjuror / magician, Robert Harbin, doing a trick with a newspaper. He pretends he is a passenger on a tube train. As more people get on the tube and squash into him, he tears the paper into smaller bits to read. The joke is as the man gets up to leave, he shakes his paper and we see the pages have magically joined back together again.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1288.15
    Media URN:
    42878
    Group:
    New sound pictorials
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    18/04/1940
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:16:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:23:24:00 / 01:24:40:00
    Canister:
    NSP 211

Comments (1)

  1. paulios says

    And here we see an example of a fine performance of a classic trick that is still done today. Such a beautiful classic is timeless.
    Well, until Newspapers are no longer printed.

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