English: The magician Joseph Dunninger with students from Columbia University demonstrating how the Indian rope trick can be performed by camera trickery. The rope was tied to a branch out of camera range, the connection painted out and sky painted in.
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India's Rope Trick is Faked in Pictures. Life Magazine. 16, June, 1941. pp. 80-81
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