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  • Everybody who doesn't work out on a regular basis try doing some stomach crunches....Now watch 0:15, and realise that Houdini is doing them upside down....

  • i love how he does it i formal wear

  • He was able to escape a lot of things except death.R.I.P Houdini.

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  • i have rare footage of him locking his keys in the car...

  • I'm here because I can escape a straight jacket too, or was it polo jacket.......either way, I can escape :-D

  • i know how to get out of a straight jacket, its all in the position of the elboiw sticking out

  • lots of excurcise LOL

  • like a bawwss

  • i love you houdini thanks for giving us all an escape ( R.I.P)

  • where's the videos on the side O.O

  • Harry Houdini is amazing! Too bad he died early. D:

    

  • The funny thing about this trick is that it is actually easier to get out of the strait jacket upsidedown than right side up. Also a used houdini straijacket can sell for 40,000 dollars today.

  • does anyone else find this footage a little disturbing?

  • I'm here because of the song Houdini by Foster the People!

  • I actually watched a guy die doing this trick in Portsmouth (UK) when i was a kid of about 6 or 7. He set the rope on fire for added effect but it went horribly wrong & he came crashing down head first onto some concrete steps :o/

  • Hi,

    Way back in the comments someone says this is from 1912. How can you be certain?

    Thanks

    Joey

  • anyone catch the film glitch like they cut and then resumed filming at 7seconds in?

  • @Delagodo i think thats just how old film plays...

  • 0:26 WTF? It's a fking hack omg i need it!!!!

  • Happy birthday Houdini!!

  • happy birthday!!!

    

  • i know how he did it

  • I hate thumb hungry whores...

  • thunbs up if u just here cause u saw the cool pic on google

  • @dariusturner51716 dont copy comments.. next time be the first to put the commentary.... PD. I HATE ASSHOLES LIKE YOU WHO NEED ATTENTION FROM OTHER PEOPLE JUST TO FEEL IMPORTANT...

  • Yup! I saw the pic on google and was curious!

  • i love when two most rated comments says the same thing:)

    i hate when i don't get thumbs up:(

  • Harry Houdini... That's the greatest fraud BS I've ever seen in my life. I mean who ever fumbles with a rope or anything tied for a while it will eventually just untie. It might have taken him like 30 minutes if you haven't noticed because it is fast forwarded and it might have even been set up. You all saw what happened when that college kid came out of no where started beating up Houdini to test his claim and Houdini wasn't ready then you know what happened. Houdini got peritonitis and died.

  • @Firefox1095 Hey!!! I just did a huge report on Houdini, he's truly amazing! He died of APPENDICITIS, not peritonitis, and it was because he wasn't paying attention and didn't have time to tense up his muscles. His appendix would have ruptured anyway! He's also not a fraud! In some tricks, he would of course use trickery, but in handcuff escapes, straitjacket escapes and other such tricks, he actually did them! It was painful too!

  • @AiedailWest "he didn't have time to tense up his muscles". That's the biggest proof that he was a fraud. I thought magicians were always prepared...I thought magicians were unbeatable......oh Hang on...that's because there is no such thing as magicians and anyway how do you know that he didn't have time to tense up his muscles? Were you there? I don't think so. It is probably just another fraud claim of Houdini. I swear I would rather watch Chris Angel than Houdini.

  • @AiedailWest  Actually, he died from both. The peritonitis was caused from the appendicitis. Houdini was great. Wish that the original Grace Hospital was still up, I'd love to do a seance for shits and giggles.

  • I read somewhere that hanging upside down actually made it easier to escape for him. The man. Suck an egg, David Blaine.

  • @beestingz1 its true lol when you hang upside down your body expands it made for more room in the jacket to escape

  • happy b-day harry

  • easy!

  • @deacmod LOL you're not serious :D

  • SI YO PUDIERA HACER ESO...!!!

    QUE COSAS NO HARÍA...!!!

  • OMG...!!! Q FLEXIBLE ... YO NO PODRÍA HACER ESO JAMÁS ..!!!

  • Ouch. Crazy flexible!

  • Happy Birthday H :)

  • i hope i dont see ""thumbs up for the ones who are here cause they say the image on google"" on ever houdini clip on youtube..........now thumps up to that sucka

  • @northbound123 2 late

  • i better not see" thumbs up for the ones who are here cause they saw the image on google" on every houdini youtube clipe....................now thumbs up to that sucka

  • thumbs down if you watched this video

  • its his birthday today (24 march)

  • Indeed. Rest in peace, Houdini.

  • Harry Houdini l'ultimo grande mago...

  • @CHSxRicky leave it ur not gunna get as much thumbs as the person before you..

  • way better than criss angel :D

  • scary....!!!!!

  • who's think he is better than criss angel thumbs up

  • Whos here from google thumbs up

  • HAPPY BITHDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Happy B-day

  • Happy birthday Harry!

  • better of criss angel

  • I don't get it... Did he just wiggle out of it?

  • @xS3NTRYx apparently he would dislocate his shoulders to give himself room to wiggle out of it. i don't think the jackets actually have that much wriggle room.

  • Happy Birthday Houdini <3 :DD

  • @icarosbr lol 

  • @icarosbr yeah :))))

  • @icarosbr ur an oracle

  • @icarosbr LOL, obvious.

  • @icarosbr Whoa!! I remember your comment from this morning, only had about 8 thumbs up, now more than 600 in one day :O

  • @icarosbr 728 tuumbs up in 15 hours...

  • Happy birthday, great Houdini!

  • he's great!

    happy b-day ^^

  • 11 are still hanging from the cable...

  • Happy Birthday man!!!

  • HBD 137 aniversary wohouu!!

    

  • Happy birthday Harry!

  • Happy Birthday to your 137. Birthday Harry :)

  • very nice. great magician in thise times

  • Houdini is legit. Angel is lame.

  • liar

  • happy bday harry

  • he would escape on saw

  • chris angle sux

  • wow harry houdini could do any type of crime and still escape i wish i could do that i could get away with anything EVEN MURDER !! DUH DUH DUHHHHH!!!!!!!!! (dramatic background music)

  • Harry Houdini ... thats what he changed his name to. notice its has 11 letters.. he used numerology

  • @Baller527 Actually, his nickname was like ehrie and it sounded like harry and him and his friend started a group called the houdini brothers. So he came known as Harry Houdini.

  • almost right it was his brother i just got done readin a book about him like three days ago and his name is ehrie

  • @Baller527 Isnt it 12..?

  • @LoveBeliebe lol yeah >_< i feel stoopid =^D

  • @Baller527 Haha ;P

  • The only reason Chris The Faggot could do this trick in one minute is because he practised it. Houdini never practised it and did it in five.

    Houdini for ever.

  • Criss Angel also do this trick

  • @025Kenneth025 FUCK CRISS ANGEL

  • @025Kenneth025 Criss angel fucking sucks...... he uses stooges, and actors, wich makes him the worst wanna-be illusionist ever

  • hi, i'm doing a project on Harry Houdini for college, which will result in a PowerPoint presentation. Now, I'm using a Mac so, does anyone know how to embed this video on a slide? I've tried just embeding it but it doesn't work. Help! BTW has to be in June 7th. Thanks.

  • Real deal...raw entertainment...Bravo!

  • Before there was so much technology. Houdini acts to their real, not like now criss angel and everybody else is likely to use special effects

    r.i.p houdini

  • angsto, can you get me an actual date for this footage? 1912, I know, but do you know any more? I know it's a big ask, but I could really do with knowing.

  • you see him thrashing around in the beginning because he would dislocate his shoulder to get enough slack to get his arm over his head

  • Naturally, you must have the opportunity to be put in a straight jacket in order to escape from it. :)

  • is this from 1912 i ask because one of the Rescue 911 episodes from #203 had a houdini clip hanging from a straitjacket in the opening from "houdini save"?

  • love da muzic

  • a guy in britans got talent did the same but with a burning rope

  • funny how thats exactly the same thing they said on tv

  • harry was born in hungary! and her true name was Weisz Erik..did you now?

  • REST IN PEACE HOUDINI .

  • I'm not sure what ordinaryman1982 is taking about. Damn near EVERYBODY was racist in Houdini's day. Racism and Social Darwinism were all the rage back then.

  • Indeed, and eugenics was a respectable policy in many places inc Britain in the early 1900's

  • wow!

  • i saw a street performer in boston do this. it was pretty cool.

  • me 2!

    i was just there

  • Also impossible to be the 6th great grandson on my dad's side-Ehrich Weiss aka Harry Houdini had no children!

  • loll DANS LES DENTS WEEZYMUSIC LOLL! U PAY

  • If thats so then you'd know that his birth name is Ehrich Weiss? Not Harry Houdini Weiss!

  • Harry Houdini Weiss is my 6th great grandfather on my dad's side of the family, I swear.

  • houidini can from the magican houdin and ehrich added an i after it hence houdini

  • sta bueno !!

  • freaky shit...

  • Yeah too bad hes dead,I know an irish band who do a fantastic tribute to him check em out,the bands jekyll, song is called Frames,its good to know hes respected and honoured by all generations

  • Anyone watch Britain's got Talent?

  • Just Great. R.I.P.

  • trick to the strait jacket very simple! #1 when they are putting on the strait jacket relaxe #2 while their strapping you put your hands and fingers a lot of space a part #3as you star to take it of it should be super simle to work your way to get it off. VERY VERY SIMPLE IVE DONE IT.

  • No to escape from a straight jacket you have to grab the jacket around the coler and get about 3 inches of slack then once it's on jerk your body to theopposite direction in which you grabed for the slack next use the arm with the slack to pull your arm over your head reach around and unbuckle the front with your teeth and unbuckle yourself (I'm a street preformer i know what i'm doing so do not attempt this alot of people strangle themselves doinf this thinking its easy)

  • w/e dude your a waste of skin to take the time just to write that i'm not being boastful or anything all i'm saying is how to do it for god sakes they even show you how to do it on mansers

  • @bulletproofmonk11

    Wow dude, thats really dickish just because he explained a trick. You saying it takes years of reading books to do a single trick and anyone who has a single other way to do it is wrong. It says in the C.I.A Manual of Trickery and Deception there is no one single trick to magic tricks.

  • i heard houdini dislocated his shoulders, would that have gained any major advantages?

  • i heard he was slightly bow-legged and it helped him escape.

  • a straight jacket, gets tighter the more you wrestle it off, that is when the straps are pulled tight, so i don't get how with arms and legs tied you can get out of one.

  • lol he looks like a dead worm that is TRYING to live :P

  • hw thick all his dricks they dnt put the stuff on properly so its eaiser 2 escpae he just acts lyk hes struggling , no such fing az magic !

  • lol do you beilive in magic? NO! he said riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

  • yeh its not magic when you untie something, its called PROBLEM SOLVING so your argument is false. He never considered his work as magic. He disproved myths such as psychic powers and he also proved that there is no after life. He promised his wife that he would call out a secret message after he died, she only knew the answer and no psychic person or anybody ever got the message.

  • learn to spell..

  • yaeh ur grammar iz alll rong

  • Duh you idiot. That's not magic. He was an escape artist more than a magician.

  • dude he is crazy but awesome

  • reminds me of a butterfly coming out of it's cocoon.

  • Of course he is the best magician ever, his name will be alive forever.

  • @RomiDepp I never heard of him until a 5th grader showed me his project on him...

  • the best magician of the fucking world.....

  • dude harry houdini could beat chris angle in a magic show anyday back then tht was the reall thing but today with all this technology wht chris angel could be doing might not even be real

  • amen to that

  • houdini pioneered crazy magic, angel engineered it.

    i prefer blaine though, he's spontaneous and doesn't get paid actors to do it.

  • u mean David Blaine right?

  • No, he means Charlie Blaine. Sheesh! ROFL!

  • the fuck he doesn't! Blaine is the biggest scam artist out there!

  • screw blaine, im going to be the best ever (well 2nd i guess i dont think anyone can beat houdini)

  • Blaine sucks

  • i think chris angel got out of two straightjackets and broke houdini's record tell me if i'm wrong

  • no he was up high in the air

  • #1 thats not harry hodinie thats in the movie fairytales #2 the was hairy can take of all this stuff is because he knew how to dislocate his bones and put them right back that is why he could do that also anyone sub4sub please

  • lmfao to Gun2o15's comment.

    haha.

  • aweesome

  • the trick to those is when they put them on stretch your arms out in front of you and cross them so that they do not touch your chest. now when u make your escape put your arms down on your chest to give you a slight bit of slack enough for you to yank and pull your way out.

  • sum1 in my school did that straightjacket trick thing for the talent show...but he did it stading up...and nothing tied to him xcept the jacket..he actually got out of it...he luked funny tho..,lol

  • WHAT'S YOUR POINT?

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    YOUR UNCLE JUNIOR

  • @unclejuniorsoprano TROLLED.

  • @shelkethetransparent You make no sense whatsoever, but that is your intention. I am King of all Trolls!

  • looks like they just had long arms and made them loose...

  • Some profesional illusionist say that Harry Houdini dislocate one of his arms to do this stunt...

  • he sometimes did have to dislocate one of his arms, but this was rather rare.

  • he would also puff out his chest and try to broaden his shoulders when they would put the jackets on him. he was so awesome.

  • He used straightjackets with extra long arms in those demos, but its plain to see he worked hard to make a name for himself, rock on Harry.

  • wth he just wiggle around