Magic For You Beware - Other Colour Pics… 1959

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London.

Brief shots show magician Alan Alan hanging upside-down from a burning rope - see CP 252 - Burning Rope Escapologist for full details (*PM0097*).

We then see Alan at a table, showing us several magic / conjuring tricks. He does some slight of hand tricks with four playing cards;...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2575
Sort Number:
CP 258
Time in/Out:
01:11:16:00 / 01:14:07:00
Canister:
CP 258
Film ID:
99.08
Issue Date:
07/12/1959

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