The Dream Big Folio: Houdini’s Illusion That Inspired David Copperfield

Houdini’s Illusion That Inspired David Copperfield

Step into the moment that redefined what humans believe is possible.

Dream Big Folio – Houdini’s Illusion That Inspired David Copperfield brings you inside the legendary 1918 Vanishing Elephant performance at the New York Hippodrome, an act so audacious it later inspired a young David Copperfield to imagine making the moon disappear.

This folio is built around one extraordinary centerpiece: a replica of Houdini’s original letter to Harry Kellar, preserved exclusively in David Copperfield’s International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, the world’s largest private collection of magic memorabilia. Kellar, widely known as the “Dean of American Magicians,” was the most celebrated magician in the United States before Houdini and one of Houdini’s early heroes and mentors. The original letter resides only in Copperfield’s museum.

Everything in the folio is designed to give you the same spark Copperfield describes in his letter, the spark that later helped fuel some of the most iconic illusions in modern history.