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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3156028" data-attributes="member: 177">Speaking with some magic-history afficonado friends of mine, the answer is... yes and no.It might help to interpret what you see in that movie not as the literal reality of what people saw, but their impressions.Why?&nbsp; Because today's folks are rather less forgiving of poor special effects.&nbsp; Some time ago, when we weren't all bombarded with TV and movie speical effects, there's evidence to suggest that people allowed our minds to &quot;fill in the blanks&quot; a bit more than they do today.&nbsp; End result - the audience of time would think they saw it look like that, even if our impression now would be of a more shabby trick.&nbsp; Just as today, it can be shown that with proper suggestion an eyewitness recollection or account can be markedly different than reality.&nbsp; Magicians are, by their trade, masters of suggestion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have also been told that the growing-tree trick is documentable back to the period.&nbsp; But I haven't seen the documentation myself, so I have to take it with a grain of salt.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 3156028, member: 177"] Speaking with some magic-history afficonado friends of mine, the answer is... yes and no. It might help to interpret what you see in that movie not as the literal reality of what people saw, but their [i]impressions[/i]. Why? Because today's folks are rather less forgiving of poor special effects. Some time ago, when we weren't all bombarded with TV and movie speical effects, there's evidence to suggest that people allowed our minds to "fill in the blanks" a bit more than they do today. End result - the audience of time would think they saw it look like that, even if our impression now would be of a more shabby trick. Just as today, it can be shown that with proper suggestion an eyewitness recollection or account can be markedly different than reality. Magicians are, by their trade, masters of suggestion :) I have also been told that the growing-tree trick is documentable back to the period. But I haven't seen the documentation myself, so I have to take it with a grain of salt. [/QUOTE]

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