Summary

Footage Information

Sherman Grinberg
Pathe
38028
SR005349_05_02.mov
9/1/1933
Magicians meet for beer and magic in Berlin
Title: "It's a Beery Treat When Mystics Meet" superimposed on people in grotesque masks / At a table with mugs of beer with men doing 'magic tricks' at the same time / A waiter puts beer mugs on table, another magician pulls 'bouquet' of flowers from waiter's jacket/ magician holds hands over mug that contains playing cards and jack of spades rises from mug / A magician smokes a cigarette, discards it, and more cigarettes 'magically' appear in quick succession / magician places small dog in box with two tiers of panel above it / A magician removes top two tiers and hands them to assistant, revealing a wagging tail / magician removes tail and front panel and dog has disappeared A man places glass over cork and a sheet of newspaper over a glass, he smacks the glass, and glass has vanished and cork remains / Note: exact day not known
Germany
Berlin

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smoking
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magic
assistants
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waiters
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men
dogs
bouquets
playing cards
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