Alexander Cannon describing the magic of Lewis Ganson, including:
• coin productions, coins across
• anti-gravity glasses
• milk vanish
• cigarette and candle productions
• dancing cane
Lewis Ganson (1913-1980) produced a series of films, teaching magic. Alexander Cannan may be describing the films, which might have been showing during the music segments of the tape.
Lewis Ganson visited the Island in April 1958 and 1959, and lectured to the Magicians of Mann on Friday 17th April 1958, when he included the showing of a film on a TV in the lounge at Laureston. The recording may have been made on that occasion.
This is a part of 'Mysteries: The Alexander Cannon Tapes'; the strange and wonderful personal audio recordings made in the 1950s by the psychiatrist, occultist and magician, Alexander Cannon (1896–1963).
The collection offers 6 hours of historically important recordings including Cannon’s own thoughts and lectures, events in The Enchanted Hall, demonstrations of the Levitating Egyptian Mummy, The Great Coffin Mystery, Thoughts in the Air and “the great wonder of the Atomic Lights – the shape of things to come.”
These recordings were released by Culture Vannin in 2021.
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