David
Copperfield
David Copperfield (born September 16, 1956
as David Seth Kotkin) is a renowned magician and illusionist
best known for his combination of spectacular illusions with
storytelling. His most famous feats include making the Statue
of Liberty disappear, levitating over the Grand Canyon, and
walking through the Great Wall of China. His name is taken from
the 1850 Charles Dickens novel.
David Copperfield's Biography
David Copperfield was born in Metuchen, New Jersey, to Jewish
immigrants from Russia. He began performing magic professionally
at the age of 12, and became the youngest person ever admitted
to the Society of American Magicians. By age 16, he was teaching
a course in magic at New York University.
In 1982, David Copperfield founded Project Magic, a rehabilitation
program to help disabled patients regain lost or damaged dexterity
skills. The program has been accredited by the American Occupational
Therapy Association, and is in use in over 1,000 hospitals worldwide.
He was engaged to the supermodel Claudia Schiffer. The couple
parted ways in 1999, after a six year relationship.
Dave Copperfield Statue of Liberty illusion
Making the Statue of Liberty appear to disappear on live television
was one of Copperfield's most remembered tricks.
William Poundstone's Bigger Secrets details a plausible-sounding
mechanism for the trick. He suggests that 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 further elaborates that, once the stage rotated,
the statue itself was 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 simply an
animation.
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 quite large to support the curtain
towers and guidewires as well as be moved in some silent fashion
to not arouse suspicion in the live audience.
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