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TheTheologin
December 8th, 2001, 11:13 PM
In WWII a magician named Jasper Maskelyne joined the military and used the art of Illusion to fool the Germans. With his great knowledge of illusion, he was actually able to devise ingenious- and very large scale- illusion systems that virtually made tanks invisible from the air, hid whole buildings full of ammunition and supplies, and even made an entire city vanish and reappear several miles away. He even managed to hide the Suez Canal at one point. All through the power of optical Illusions.
Danustouch
December 9th, 2001, 11:38 AM
Wow...could you provide a source for this information? That would be really cool if it were proven! Cool. Thanks!
Maggie
December 9th, 2001, 01:48 PM
Originally posted by Danustouch
Wow...could you provide a source for this information? That would be really cool if it were proven! Cool. Thanks!

Oh, it's true--the History Channel just ran a program on the deceptions used in WWII and he got a whole program for himself. I suspect that if you ran a websearch on his name you'd get a link.

Maggie
white_draco
December 9th, 2001, 06:27 PM
That is soo cool!!! And soooo...ummmm...yea...great!
Danustouch
December 9th, 2001, 10:15 PM
I'm not saying it wasn't true..but I'd like a source for the story, so that I could read up on it :)
Maggie
December 10th, 2001, 01:58 AM
Originally posted by Danustouch
I'm not saying it wasn't true..but I'd like a source for the story, so that I could read up on it :)

This is just a quickie giving the bare facts.

www.magictricks.com/library/war.htm

I also found that Tom Cruise is going to play him in a movie for 2002.

Maggie
TheTheologin
December 14th, 2001, 12:34 PM
My SO told me about the history channel special then I looked up his name in the Yahoo search engine. I don't really remember the exact URLs I found it on Sorry hun.
Adrenaline Junkie
December 14th, 2001, 06:44 PM
Thats an awesome tidbit. Thinks for sharing ;)
dragonmagic64
December 24th, 2001, 01:06 PM
:uzi:
in your research , do you ever find out what he did to pull it off????
:ahhhh:
TheTheologin
December 30th, 2001, 11:53 PM
Strobe type lighting and mirrors I believe but I'm not positive. I'll ask the person who saw the show on The History Channel for you.
dragonmagic64
January 6th, 2002, 11:09 AM
:rotfl:
mirrors and stobe lights , cool :sunny:
looking forward to the update :spidey:
mol
January 7th, 2002, 10:11 AM
Very strange...and cool. LOL.
TheTheologin
January 13th, 2002, 01:41 AM
Yeah it was mirrors and lighting. When he hid the city he set off small explosions within the mock city to make the enemy think that their higher ups were bombing it so they naturally bombed it too.
Mithrea
January 24th, 2003, 09:55 PM
My Dad actually told me about this guy last night. I came online to see what I could find about him and thought I would check here first.

Lo and behold! :lol:

I also dug up some new(?) info:
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/R/real_lives/jasper.html
Mnemosyne
January 24th, 2003, 10:01 PM
Oh Memories! I saw that show on Jasper Maskelyne on Channel Four this summer in England. It was so fabulous. I actually wrote about the guy briefly in the thread on Harry Houdini here.

http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17830

MW is like my online diary. It reminds me of what I saw, did and felt. lol.