Howard De Courcy Issue Title All Set (1942)

Animated titles show a ball of newspaper coming out of a magician’s hat and unravelling to read: “HOWARD DE COURCY“. London, probably Pathe Studio. Illusionist Howard De Courcy tears a newspaper broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph) into several small squares, telling us to take spare paper to the salvage department. With a flick of his wrist he opens the broadsheet - completely intact! He then presents his version of ’The Rope Trick’. A distinguished man with a moustache enters to assist him, and snips through the rope with some scissors. Howard ties the two pieces together, then ’magics’ them into one piece of rope again. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies