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Straitjacket Escape
From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
Straitjacket Escape is the act of getting out from a straightjacket. It created by Houdini in 1896. His brother Hardeen also performed it.
Houdini started out doing the escape behind a curtain, but decided he got a better reaction when doing it in full view of the audience.
Performers then started doing it while suspended up-side down in mid-air from the side of a tall building or from a crane.
Other performers to include this routine were Harry Jansen, Dunninger, and James Randi. Mardoni in the 1930s, did it from an airplane in flight.
References
- THE STRAIT-JACKET RELEASE by Harry Houdini, Conjurers Monthly Magazine Vol 02, page 154 and page 176 (1908)
