Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
This is your brain on tannis root & Satanism: Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)

This is your brain on tannis root & Satanism: Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)

Harry Houdini escapes a straitjacket while hanging from a crane in New York City, a feat he accomplished by dislocating his shoulders (1907) (via) Video footage of one of his hanging straitjacket escapes here. Important advice from Harry Houdini: “No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.” “Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.” “To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.”

Harry Houdini escapes a straitjacket while hanging from a crane in New York City, a feat he accomplished by dislocating his shoulders (1907) (via) Video footage of one of his hanging straitjacket escapes here.

Important advice from Harry Houdini:

“No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.”

“Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.”

“To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.”