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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 206680, member: 55&quot;]That&#039;s a good thought.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d think that the assistant went into the box, which was then hoisted into the air....assistant has already crept out at the time of the photo (down through the stage before the box was hoisted), but the magician is using the glass and straw to prove they are still inside.&nbsp; Then mere seconds later the box will be dropped, or fall open, to show the assistant vanished - making it seem like they vanished instantly while the box was in the air, whereas in reality they had plenty of time to sneak out, and were gone before the box was hoisted.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the magician would have been using a concealed tube or the like to give the illusion that the glass was being emptied by someone still inside the box.&nbsp;&nbsp; A little addition to the usual vanishing assistant trick, to heighten the illusion.</p><p>In modern versions of this trick the timing can allow the vanished person to magically reappear as one of the assistants on stage, in disguise, for example:</p><p>At the end of the trick the male assistant in the photo takes off a mask and his outfit to reveal he is actually the female assistant who vanished seconds before from the box.</p><p>In reality, she crept down through the stage before the box was hoisted, donned the disguise, and came on stage as a male to help with hoisting the box, while the magician was using the glass to prove she is still in the box.</p><p>I&#039;ve seen Penn and Teller demonstrate that variant; don&#039;t know if the magician in the photo would have done that though.&nbsp; But the male assistant does look a little odd.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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