Motorcycle Illusion

The Magician rides up on a motorcycle, covers it with a cloth, then removes the cloth and the motorcycle has vanished and two females are found sitting on luggage!


#22 The Motorcycle Illusion
Uses these magic proceedures: Misdirection, Production Stage with Hidden Compartment

The scene is filmed on a Production Stage which gives the illusion that the motorcycle is riding on a street, but actually it is on a raised platform, that has a trap door thru which the motorcycle is dropped thru and thru which the two females move up behind the large cloth that the Magician holds in front of the entire area with an assistant's help...

The cloth also contains a thin wire form that produces the momentary outline of the females and luggage, while they move up into the area with boxes that look like luggage, and while the motorcycle drops down backwards into the hidden compartment area... all of this "movement" is calculated, rehearsed and performed without error, in seconds, and with the help of film editing, it comes out perfect and shows as you see it in the final cut... remember it's a movie production... never actually seen by a real live audience!