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Home > Library > Miscellaneous > WikipediaMaking the Statue of Liberty
seem to disappear on live television in 1983 is one of David
Copperfield's most memorable tricks. The illusion was a creation of
Jim Steinmeyer [1] and Don Wayne, and it is still unpublished. The
book Bigger Secrets tells what could have happened.

Contents [hide]
1 Suggested Possible Method
2 References
3 See also
4 External links



Suggested Possible Method
In the book Bigger Secrets, William Poundstone published his
speculative guesses and put forward a fairly plausible sounding theory
for how Steinmeyer's illusion may have been accomplished. Poundstone
suggests that the entire stage and seating area for the audience was
atop a rotating platform. Once the curtains were closed, blocking the
view, the platform was rotated--slowly enough to be imperceptible. When
the curtains opened again, the audience was facing out to sea rather
than toward the statue. Poundstone also speculates that, once the
stage rotated, the statue itself was perhaps mostly concealed behind a
brightly-lit curtain tower. To further misdirect attention, there were
two rings of lights: one, initially lit, around the statue, and
another (dark and invisible at first) in the area the audience would
end up facing. When the trick "happened", the statue's lights were
doused and the others turned on. The radar blip highlighted in the
television presentation was possibly simply an animation. As for the
three Kodak flash cameras taking pictures of the statue at the moment
that it "vanished," Poundstone suggests that the cameras' tiny
flashbulbs would probably not have been powerful enough to illuminate
the statue on their own once the main lights had been switched off.

Some claim that this explanation is unsatisfactory, maintaining that
one end of the statue's pedestal base was visible to the live audience
at all times. Furthermore, the size of the suggested platform would
have to be very significant to support the curtain towers and
guidewires as well as be moved in some silent fashion to not arouse
suspicion in the live audience. However in viewing the video recording
a slight wobbling of the camera can be seen, which might lend a degree
of support this theory. Several witnesses, not part of the illusion
audience, reported that at one point during the filming of the
illusion the lights on the Statue of Liberty were switched off,
further supporting Poundstone's theory.[citation needed]

Others 'in the trade' claimed at the time that the statue itself was a
smaller scale model on a stage somewhere other than in New York City,
and that the "live" audience were paid actors. Possible factors which
might lend some support to this claim is that the crown of the statue
right before it disappears shows bright white lights compared to the
softer blue that appears in the real statue, and the number of visible
groups of lights increases from ten to eleven. However, as is well-
known, the lighting arrangements for the statue have not remained
exactly the same between 1983 and the present day, and thus at the
time, this lighting system was in use.

One of the audience members in the interview jokingly says that she
"never saw the Statue of Liberty disappear like this one did". This
statement may perhaps be taken by the uninformed viewer of only the
shorter, edited footage to be implying that this was not the real
Statue, however the original, longer footage from the TV special of
1983 conclusively shows it was intended as a tongue-in-cheek joke. The
statement was followed by laughter from the interviewer, the audience
and the woman herself. The woman was indicating the extraordinariness
of the disappearance of such a large object by humorously suggesting
that it is a feat that she has seen performed several times before.


References
Poundstone, William. (1986). Bigger Secrets. Houghton Mifflin.


See also
David Copperfield's flying illusion

External links
Vanishing the Statue of Liberty (shortened version) at YouTube - video
of the illusion, edited and shortened from the original, longer 1983
footage as featured in the broadcast of the TV Special of that year



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