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Introduction / Guidebook Groundbreaking Gallery The Brochure The Souvenir Postcard A Look Into "Patterns in Sports" 3.07.08

Is it just smoke and mirrors or does magician Mark Wilson actually make people disappear in a puff of smoke at the General Cigar Hall of Magic? There are two highlights: a live magic show in which people disappear, and spectacular aerial movies of sports events. View the Industrial Area Map Locate It: B22 In a 12-minute show staged every 25 minutes, a magician makes people and things emerge from nowhere, float about and vanish. Outside the pavilion, a machine blows giant smoke rings into the air. MOVIE IN THE ROUND. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and General Cigar present movies of sports events photographed from above and projected on a circular screen at the bottom of a well. Visitors look down on films of baseball, football and other games. The climax is a parachute descent in which the viewer seems to be falling with the jumper. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book

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