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Biografía del gran mago e inventor, Harry Houdini
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00:13His name has become synonymous with magic.
00:17He was the man who could not be held in chains, the man capable of escaping from everything.
00:24He was the great Houdini.
00:27He was the first adrenaline addict.
00:29He liked extreme risk.
00:32His profession was mystery.
00:34And the mystery continues to surround his death.
00:39In the Hollywood version of his story, Houdini drowns trapped in one of his escape acts.
00:45The truth of the matter is that he never had any problem with that number.
00:50Others say he was killed by a blow.
00:52A punch from a man whose face we haven't seen until now.
00:59Is it possible that the master of the magicians was responsible for his own death?
01:04Or did he actually die?
01:08Houdini's story has become a myth.
01:13A crazy story where the true story is more interesting than the fictional one.
01:23Houdini's story has become a myth.
01:28Houdini's story has become a myth.
01:53He became a legend during his lifetime.
01:59It seemed like Harry Houdini could escape from anything.
02:09Houdini fully immersed himself in the indestructible image he had created for himself.
02:15He was what I call a winner.
02:23People with special skills and large doses of talent and determination get out of situations in which others would die.
02:35And so they reinforce their belief that they can achieve it until something opens their eyes.
02:42The apparent danger of these feats left his audience paralyzed.
02:47But it was the mythical nature of Houdini's feats that made him seem superhuman.
02:54Why were so many people focused on Houdini?
02:57He said there is a clear winner and a clear loser.
03:00You can participate in a fight indirectly and there will be a clear result, just like in fairy tales.
03:10Houdini created in the minds of his audience a kind of death and resurrection act,
03:16where one expected to die.
03:20But he never died.
03:22He was resurrected.
03:24Of course, there came a time when he never got up again.
03:27And the show was over.
03:29After a life filled with poverty and wealth, darkness and fame,
03:33The great Houdini died on Halloween in 1926.
03:38In his death, just as in his life, he left many people scratching their heads.
03:43How did he do it?
03:45Did he need any special preparation?
03:47Did he have superpowers or was it just a magician's trick?
03:54A complete enigma.
03:55But after all, becoming a myth was part of Houdini's repertoire.
04:08On March 24, 1847, the boy who would become Harry Houdini was born.
04:13He was born to the rabbi and Mrs. Weiss.
04:24Its history is parallel to that of the United States and the development of the new world.
04:30He's the right man at the right time.
04:33We found it at the beginning of the 20th century.
04:36Modernity, speed, splendor.
04:39The birth of skyscrapers, airplanes, and movies.
04:46It is undoubtedly the era of Houdini.
04:52His family belonged to the endless stream of immigrants arriving in the new world
04:58and they saw their lives change to unsuspected extremes.
05:03Young Eric would also eventually change.
05:07And as a tribute to the great French magician Robert Houdin,
05:10He changed his name to become Harry the Great Houdini.
05:16He was born in Hungary,
05:18but in all his subsequent passport applications
05:21He always said he was born in Appleton, Wisconsin.
05:25Like many others, he tried to reinvent himself, leaving behind his immigrant past.
05:32He started out as a circus performer.
05:35Later he was a Bodeville magician
05:36and finally the man capable of escaping from everything.
05:41For those subjected to slave labor, poverty, and hopelessness,
05:45It offered more than just a show.
05:51I needed an escape, and he was Mr. Escape.
05:54He was the one who showed them on stage
05:57that guy with the weird accent,
05:58That little boy with crooked legs could escape from anything.
06:03And if he could do it, so could they.
06:06He was their hero.
06:08He was the typical hero.
06:13It's no wonder he became a living legend
06:17and someone very well known throughout the world.
06:31He was not the first to entertain the public by escaping from ropes and chains.
06:36But Houdini never stopped devising new confinements
06:39and risk their lives to get out of them.
06:46After Houdini,
06:48no one was ever able to carry out the same feats
06:50without being compared to him.
06:54Dean Gunnarsson knows this very well.
06:56He has been working in escapism since he was a teenager.
06:59I've spent my whole life walking in Houdini's shadow
07:02And his shadow remains as large today as it was in his time.
07:09As one of its innovations,
07:11Houdini used the latest 19th-century medical technology.
07:14and turned it into mass entertainment.
07:17It was 1896 and he was performing in Canada.
07:23He visited a mental hospital
07:24And he saw those people in straitjackets
07:29and the buckles twisting, trying to break free
07:33And she thought, what an interesting idea!
07:38And that's how he learned to escape from a straitjacket
07:41and included it in his performances.
07:47I remember talking to magic veterans when I was young.
07:50and hear them tell how the police
07:53They were shoving Houdini around on a cold morning.
07:58Tens of thousands of people came out to witness the event
08:02And he always did it in every new city.
08:04before their duties
08:06so that everyone would know that Houdini had arrived.
08:13He was there, in front of them,
08:16making it impossible.
08:19Who could believe he was just a mere mortal?
08:22It wasn't just a trick.
08:25It was pure, hard-hitting physical technique,
08:28skill and determination.
08:33The audience witnessed the great physical effort,
08:36strength and flexibility,
08:38body movement
08:40and their control to get out of contraptions made of canvas, leather, and metal.
08:45And they always wondered,
08:47How did Houdini get out of there?
08:49as if he had special powers to do it.
08:55Houdini further fueled the myth and the legend,
08:59saying that he knew how to dislocate his shoulders like nobody else knew how
09:02and that he was able to endure physical pain and manage to get out.
09:14I am 74 years old and I think I could still go out
09:17of a reasonably tight straitjacket.
09:21I don't think it's necessary to dislocate your shoulder.
09:24I have never met an escape artist capable of doing it.
09:27Houdini may have done it.
09:30Houdini managed to free himself thanks to his physical skill,
09:33his extensive knowledge of closures and fasteners
09:36And of course, with cheating.
09:38But only those who know their job from the inside.
09:41You can imagine how much he enjoyed doing it.
09:44There was no field that Houdini didn't try.
09:48or explore physically, scientifically, or medically
09:53to become the best magician,
09:56the best escape artist that could possibly exist in the whole world.
10:04Houdini's early years performing as a magician in the circus
10:08He was given many opportunities to learn certain uncommon skills.
10:14A contortionist doesn't need to dislocate the joints of his limbs
10:18to twist them.
10:21It is often an illusion created by a moving body
10:24prepared thoroughly.
10:31It has been suggested that Houdini learned to control his body
10:34from head to toe.
10:39Part of Houdini's mystique and legend
10:41It was that he could take off his shoes and manipulate his toes
10:44better than the people with the hands
10:46and that he was able to pick up keys and open locks
10:49and many other things with your feet.
10:57Usually atrophied and clumsy from lack of use
11:00It's surprising to see human toes.
11:02as agile as those of the hands.
11:11It's hard to say how much Houdini prepared.
11:14and how he did it.
11:16Because let's remember that she was in show business
11:19and I knew that a good story
11:22It could slightly surpass the truth.
11:27Houdini claimed that he controlled his body from top to bottom
11:30even the innermost reflexes.
11:35He said he was capable of swallowing certain keys
11:38and tools up to the throat
11:40and then regurgitate them when he needed them.
11:43That way I could pass any kind of exam.
11:49He said he had learned to regurgitate keys and various gadgets
11:53furthermore by putting a potato tied to a string down his throat
11:56and making it go up and down.
11:58It was a normal method at the time.
11:59And I think it still is.
12:01Learning to not feel nauseous when swallowing something.
12:04There are professional gamblers in this business.
12:07that swallow live mice and goldfish
12:09And when they cough, they bring out the living again.
12:12Sword swallowers do exactly the same thing.
12:15They have to overcome the nausea.
12:24There's no trick here.
12:26Only the exploitation of little-known physiological secrets.
12:30Reflexes can be controlled
12:32while the sword zigzags between the organs.
12:36A simple cough, a sneeze, a hiccup
12:40It could turn out tragic.
12:43Whether Houdini really swallowed things or not
12:46And did she regurgitate them? That's a good question.
12:51It's very difficult to say what the truth was.
12:57Whatever the truth behind these stories may be
13:00There is no doubt that Houdini took his preparation seriously.
13:05He never smoked or drank
13:06and trained his body for a profession
13:09which requires a lot of effort.
13:15He was an incredible athlete
13:17as well as an exceptional magician.
13:20I have a lot of experience with athletes
13:23And I know that those who take care of their bodies
13:25They are the ones who manage to overcome all difficulties
13:29and those who don't
13:30They get stuck halfway.
13:34Dr. Robert Albo
13:36is in a unique position
13:37to understand Houdini
13:39from a medical perspective.
13:42He is the doctor for a professional basketball team.
13:44as well as the Oakland Riders.
13:47He's also a magician.
13:50Dr. Albo
13:51He says that Houdini was not just an artist.
13:54but also a very focused athlete
13:56in the principles of good physical fitness.
14:01Escapism is not an easy profession
14:04and this man
14:06An hour passed.
14:07every afternoon
14:09escaping from shackles
14:10and other kinds of incredible gadgets
14:13that arrested him.
14:16I put in the effort
14:18that an athlete puts
14:19in their exercises
14:23I did gymnastics every morning
14:26push-ups
14:27abdominal exercises
14:28things like that
14:29to maintain its strength
14:30and his physique.
14:32He was very proud
14:34of his body
14:34and its presence
14:37and even more
14:38from the fact of having a body
14:40like steel
14:41strong
14:42capable of doing things
14:44that others could not
14:46I can't even imagine.
14:51Of course
14:52the notion of good physical fitness
14:54and how to get it
14:55They changed over time.
15:00Even before being
15:01the great Houdini
15:02the young Eric Weiss
15:03I used to exercise
15:05with the same dedication
15:06and the same obsession
15:07who would put it on everything.
15:10I couldn't lose.
15:11I had to win
15:12at any cost.
15:14He wants to beat everyone.
15:18As a teenager
15:19He was a long-distance runner
15:20And there's a photo.
15:21magnificent of him
15:22with the chest
15:23full of medals.
15:26Maybe it had something
15:27what to see
15:27with which I had
15:28three brothers
15:29or four actually
15:30because I had
15:31a stepbrother
15:31and wanted to defeat them
15:33to everyone.
15:38something important
15:40to achieve
15:41success
15:41to stand out.
15:44Being a child
15:45among many others
15:46He learned it right away.
15:49because in a family
15:50numerous
15:51to achieve something
15:52It is worth highlighting.
15:54From the beginning
15:55the highlight for Houdini
15:57meant to highlight
15:58for his mother.
16:02it felt
16:03in the obligation
16:04to help
16:04to his family
16:05to his mother
16:06and so?
16:08It weighed a lot
16:09for him.
16:11Wanted to
16:12as he finally did
16:13fill it with gold
16:15the lap.
16:18The need
16:19of the approval
16:20maternal
16:20It was enormous
16:21and he tried very hard
16:23to get
16:23your attention.
16:26When he did
16:27his first jump
16:28from the bridge
16:29from Rochester
16:29New York
16:30a feat
16:31very dangerous
16:32He was handcuffed.
16:33It was placed
16:34on a bridge
16:34and jumped
16:35to a channel
16:35with several
16:36hundreds of people
16:37looking at him.
16:40In that first jump
16:41There was a lot of uncertainty
16:43since there had never been
16:44attempted nothing similar.
16:48I had moments
16:49to slip away
16:50of the knots
16:50and come to the surface.
16:52However
16:53I just needed
16:54that a person
16:55specifically
16:55I was looking at him.
17:01In his diary
17:02after that feat
17:04wrote
17:04Mom saw me jump
17:07exclamation mark.
17:09He took his mother
17:10to Rochester
17:11knowing that he could
17:12to see him die.
17:14In fact
17:15in his life
17:16it didn't seem
17:16have room
17:17for no one else
17:18that for mom.
17:21Until
17:22I knew Bess
17:25Wilhelmina
17:26Beatrice
17:26Ronner
17:29In the summer
17:30of 1894
17:32three weeks
17:32after meeting
17:33Harry
17:3420 years old
17:35and Bess
17:35of 18
17:36They got married.
17:38It's not there
17:39very light
17:40how they met.
17:42A story
17:42says that
17:43in Coney Island
17:45other
17:45that in some
17:47place
17:47from Brooklyn
17:50They were very good.
17:52friends
17:52and they did
17:53lots of jokes
17:54and jokes
17:54among them.
17:56The notes
17:56that he wrote to her
17:57They were fun
17:58and affectionate
17:58tender
17:59and funny
18:00both.
18:01I called her
18:02all kinds
18:02of affectionate nicknames
18:04Champagne
18:04Coquette
18:06They soon became a couple
18:07and they went on tour
18:08like Houdini.
18:10From the beginning
18:11was an important part
18:12of the show.
18:17Fame
18:18It took a while to arrive
18:19but when he arrived
18:20He did it suddenly
18:25and making them see
18:26that the public
18:27I wanted less magic
18:29and more escapes
18:30reckless.
18:39Soon
18:40there would be no room left
18:41on stage
18:41for no one else
18:42than Houdini.
18:43Bess
18:44ceased to be
18:44in the candlestick
18:45at least
18:46until later
18:47of death
18:47Harry's.
18:51Houdini
18:52it is proposed
18:52to go down in history.
18:56He was a pilot
18:57in a time
18:57in which it was
18:58risky
18:58and infrequent
18:59and became
19:00the first man
19:01that flew
19:02in Australia.
19:06Also
19:06he dedicated
19:07to the new world
19:08of cinema.
19:09The teacher
19:10of escapism
19:11it was beginning
19:12the teacher
19:13of self-promotion.
19:16Houdini
19:16I was having lunch
19:17with Keller
19:18the famous magician
19:19that preceded
19:19to Thurston
19:20and entered
19:21a child
19:21screaming
19:21than a train
19:22had derailed
19:23near.
19:24It was an accident
19:25terrible.
19:26Houdini
19:26He excused himself
19:27from the table
19:27and seeing
19:28that he didn't return
19:28Keller
19:29He went to look for him.
19:30Arrive
19:31to the train
19:31hilly
19:32and there
19:32Houdini was there
19:33as if there were
19:33state at the accident.
19:36In the morning
19:36following
19:36the newspapers
19:37they said
19:38Houdini
19:38escape
19:39to death
19:40in an accident
19:40by train.
19:43Keep
19:44your name
19:44in the headlines
19:45It was fundamental.
19:46Houdini
19:48was competing now
19:48not with his brothers
19:50but with everything
19:51whoever dares
19:51practice
19:52escapism.
19:57Something common
19:59together
20:00those geniuses
20:00It was competitiveness.
20:05Whatever they said
20:06They were always
20:07competing with each other
20:08among those in the trade.
20:09There's an anecdote
20:11in Germany
20:11a teacher
20:13of the wives
20:13one was doing
20:14of their numbers
20:15on stage
20:17Houdini
20:17disguised himself
20:18and offered
20:19to close
20:19the wives
20:20by the artist
20:22I was wearing
20:22some that there were
20:23rigged
20:24so that they could not
20:25open
20:25the poor man in handcuffs
20:26It was half an hour away
20:27making efforts
20:28then Houdini
20:30He took off his disguise
20:31and made him look ridiculous
20:32in front of the public
20:35The success
20:36meant
20:37imitators
20:37and that Houdini
20:38I had to invent
20:39constantly
20:40new exhausts
20:44In 1908
20:45changed his shirt
20:46of strength
20:46for another new one
20:47and impossible escape
20:48which left the public
20:49agape
20:53He used what
20:54at the time
20:55It was an object
20:56very common
20:56a metal jar
20:58to carry milk
20:59and he converted it
21:01in what seemed
21:02a trap
21:02mortal
21:04As for a person
21:06dives
21:08in the water
21:09Everyone knows that
21:12unless it's a fish
21:14He has to leave
21:15in two or three minutes
21:16or he will die
21:20The theater audience
21:22He was going crazy
21:23when Houdini
21:23shared with them
21:24the ghost
21:25of a death
21:26by drowning
21:28No one could resist
21:30to contain
21:30their own breathing
21:31and imagine
21:32how long would it last
21:33while they were watching
21:34to the escape artist
21:35disappear
21:36of the surface
21:40After containing
21:41breathing
21:4215 seconds
21:43carbonate
21:44carbon
21:44of the blood
21:45begins to increase
21:46quickly
21:46as it is consumed
21:47vital oxygen
21:51Blood vessels
21:53of the skin
21:53contract
21:54to divert
21:54their vital resources
21:56to the brain
21:56and to the heart
22:01The high level
22:02carbonate
22:03carbon
22:03activates reflexes
22:05respiratory
22:05of the brain
22:06that begin
22:06to ask for air
22:07shouting
22:13At this point
22:15succumb
22:15to the demand
22:16air
22:16and aspire
22:17would mean
22:18death
22:18by drowning
22:19when full
22:20the lungs
22:21water
22:21instead
22:22air
22:24That would be
22:25if the teacher
22:26of escapism
22:27I didn't have it
22:27Everything under control
22:35Although the danger
22:36varies with each exhaust
22:37It's obvious
22:39that something
22:39could fail
22:43With magic
22:45you can cut yourself
22:46with a letter
22:47from the deck
22:47or crush you
22:49a toe
22:50in another issue
22:50but in escapism
22:53authentic escapism
22:54there is an element
22:55risk
22:55and danger
22:56distinct
22:57that in any
22:58another field
22:58of the show
23:04But perhaps
23:05the greatest danger
23:05be in believing
23:06in your own success
23:09Every time you do
23:11these numbers
23:12you reaffirm yourself
23:13You feel
23:15like a god
23:16because you have been
23:17capable of overcoming
23:18great dangers
23:19in comparison
23:21with the common
23:21of mortals
23:30Escape from drowning
23:31in the environment
23:32controlled
23:33of a theater
23:33It was one thing
23:34but Houdini
23:35I wanted more
23:37Escape this
23:38horrifying fate
23:39In a place
23:40outdoors
23:40apparently
23:41uncontrolled
23:43Anything to the best of a good extent
23:44to excite
23:45to the fans
23:45and earn
23:46and gain attention
23:47from the press
23:53They chained him up
23:54or they handcuffed him
23:55and they put it in him
23:55in the box
23:56The lid was stuck in.
23:57or they tied themselves up
23:58straps around
23:59or both
24:06Then a crane
24:08I lowered it
24:09up to the river
24:14Houdini
24:14would demonstrate
24:15one more time
24:15that its audience
24:16shared
24:17his fascination
24:18because of the traps
24:19and the chains
24:19with the darkness
24:21suffocation
24:22and the horror
24:22to drown
24:31Perhaps both
24:32the obsession
24:32Houdini's
24:33like pleasure
24:34of their audience
24:34had their origin
24:36in the feeling
24:36to be free
24:37from the claws
24:38of a nightmare
24:44It is said
24:45that when Houdini
24:46I was 4 or 5 years old
24:48in Appleton
24:48Wisconsin
24:49I was swimming
24:50in the river
24:51and almost drowned
24:53A theory
24:54It's because of their escapes
24:56These are attempts
24:57to revive
24:57that experience
24:58again and again
24:59to be on the edge
25:01of death
25:02and get out alive
25:03that all his escapes
25:05They are repetition
25:06of the trauma
25:06of being about
25:07to die
25:08and that their need
25:09to keep escaping
25:10It's to make sure
25:12that he will not die
25:13that will not drown
25:17Although some
25:18see it
25:19as a mere coincidence
25:20Dean Gunnarsson
25:21also
25:22about to
25:22of drowning
25:23as a child
25:23and like Houdini
25:25needed to free himself
25:26of the trauma
25:26of his childhood
25:30In 1983
25:31This escape artist
25:33budding
25:34paid tribute
25:35to death
25:35from the teacher
25:36on Halloween
25:3657 years earlier
25:41There were about 10,000 people
25:43who attended
25:44Let's see the tribute
25:44Houdini
25:45Halloween
25:47They tied me up
25:48and chained
25:49and they put me in
25:50in a coffin
25:51wooden
25:52Then he nailed it
25:53the lid
25:53and they put
25:54chains around
25:55The crane
25:56He picked up the coffin
25:57and lowered it
25:58up to this river
25:59cloudy and icy
26:00I only had one thing left.
26:01escape
26:06But unfortunately
26:07They didn't
26:12As it begins to descend
26:14the coffin
26:14Dean
26:15aspirated
26:16preparing
26:17to fill
26:17your lungs
26:18air
26:18last
26:21But the coffin
26:22It had filled
26:23water
26:23faster
26:24of what was expected
26:26Dean
26:27aspirated
26:27with force
26:28drinking water
26:29instead of air
26:32He started coughing
26:33letting go
26:33even more air
26:38Soon the lack
26:39oxygen
26:40in the organs
26:40vital
26:41Dean left
26:41unconscious
26:47Past
26:47four minutes
26:48the team
26:49by Gunnarsson
26:50knew
26:50that something bad
26:51had happened
27:13They took out the coffin
27:14of the water
27:15and they took him
27:16on the shore
27:20They opened the lid
27:21insurance
27:21of what they were going to see
27:24There I was
27:26blue
27:27unconscious
27:28and dead
27:32Paradoxically
27:32death
27:33not always
27:34It's the end
27:35The frozen waters
27:36were able to contribute
27:37that Gunnarsson
27:38did not die
27:39avoiding
27:40a reflex action
27:44There is what is called
27:45vagal reflex
27:46and it is known
27:48that the heart
27:49it stops
27:49when it enters
27:51cold water
27:51through the nose
27:52the vagus nerve
27:54control the rhythm
27:54from the heart
27:55and if it happens
27:56excessive cold
27:57on the nose
27:58sometimes
27:59may have
28:00the effect
28:00to stimulate
28:01to the vagus nerve
28:02to stop
28:04the heart
28:06Sometimes
28:07the state
28:08animation
28:08suspended
28:09that occurs
28:10So
28:10can protect
28:11the brain
28:12and the tissues
28:12vital
28:13of damages
28:13cell phones
28:18Finally
28:19the team
28:20rescue
28:20he was able to revive
28:21Gunnarsson
28:22on the way
28:22to the hospital
28:23but there was
28:24experienced
28:24that death
28:25by drowning
28:26that he had pursued
28:27both Houdini
28:28like him
28:29from an early age
28:38Gunnarsson
28:38He was lucky.
28:39he did not suffer
28:40irreversible injuries
28:42but it was missing
28:43bit
28:46It's only part of it
28:47of what is needed
28:48to be an escapist
28:51something that nobody
28:52I understood better
28:53that Houdini
28:58Houdini
28:59shows a
29:00extraordinary
29:01endurance
29:02to the pain
29:02physical
29:04were
29:05masochism
29:06or self-destruction
29:07the case
29:09the thing is
29:09submitted
29:10constantly
29:11to torture
29:11terrible
29:13They twisted it
29:14and they dragged him away
29:15in a thousand ways
29:19the pain
29:19and the threat
29:20of death
29:20they always were
29:22implicit
29:22in the world
29:23that Houdini
29:23presented
29:24to its audience
29:25the image may
29:26of a man
29:27almost naked
29:27and chained
29:28don't be surprised
29:29nowadays
29:29But imagine
29:30the impact
29:31in times
29:32more modest
29:32torture
29:35It was something
29:36that fascinated him
29:36had
29:38a collection
29:39of photographs
29:39unpleasant
29:50Houdini
29:51I was fascinated
29:52through mutilation
29:53and torture
29:54and included them
29:56in many
29:56from their escapes
29:59pain
30:00death
30:01imprisonment
30:01and drowning
30:02the genius
30:03Houdini's
30:04It lies in taking advantage of
30:05nightmares
30:06and provide
30:07a fun
30:07that liked
30:08almost everyone
30:12combining
30:13fear
30:13to drown
30:14and the threat
30:15of torture
30:15Houdini
30:16believe
30:16what he
30:17considered
30:17your best escape
30:20This is exciting!
30:21feat
30:21It was so terrifying
30:22which is not strange
30:23even today
30:24many people
30:25creates erroneously
30:26which was the cause
30:27of his death
30:38the climax
30:39of all my work
30:40Houdini said
30:41It's the Chinese cell
30:42of torture
30:43water
30:46the Chinese cell
30:48Houdini's
30:48It's an escape
30:50that personally
30:51is the one that least
30:53I like to do
30:53due to the difficulty
30:55and suffering
30:57I think it's
30:59what I value most
31:01of what he did
31:03Houdini
31:07I've been hanged
31:09face down
31:10with straitjackets
31:11more than anyone else
31:13another person
31:14Viva
31:16but
31:16those traps
31:18wooden
31:18that suffering
31:20that overwhelm
31:32then they pick you up
31:34and they put you in
31:35in that tank
31:36water
31:36face down
31:37and water
31:38It goes in through your mouth
31:39and through the nose
31:40and it disorients you
31:43create a level
31:44of excitement
31:44completely different
31:47even in the public
31:48full of adrenaline
31:49of today
31:54indirect excitation
31:56It triggers adrenaline
31:57from the public
31:58but it's only
31:59one of the substances
32:00that are fired
32:01to the artist
32:02as an escape artist
32:03you sway
32:04trying to let go
32:06and that physical effort
32:07produces endorphins
32:09but also
32:10They produce them
32:11the public
32:12and the applause
32:15pain
32:16danger
32:17emotion
32:18capable of releasing
32:19analgesics
32:20created by himself
32:21body
32:24endorphins
32:25They are a component
32:26in the torrent
32:27of hormones
32:28and neurotransmitters
32:29that intervene
32:30in the control
32:30of the pain
32:31and they can even
32:32transform the agony
32:33in ecstasy
32:38I understand what you felt
32:40Houdini
32:40and how it was done
32:42addicted
32:42and never
32:43he wanted to leave it
32:50there would be a rise
32:52adrenaline
32:53as a reaction
32:53physiological
32:54but also
32:56influenced
32:56because of what he feels
32:57and think
32:58Houdini
32:58from the public
32:59and their relationship
33:00with them
33:03in the same way
33:05that a player
33:06soccer
33:06supports
33:08a pain
33:08unthinkable
33:09in part
33:11due to a reaction
33:13physics
33:13and partly
33:15because of the relationship
33:17that has
33:17with its audience
33:18his coach
33:19and his colleagues
33:21team
33:23It's not surprising.
33:24that in the myth
33:25Houdini's
33:26in the movie
33:26from Hollywood
33:27died like that
33:28drowned
33:29through torture
33:29aquatic
33:31It's perfect.
33:33except that it's not true
33:42Houdini
33:42survived
33:43to torture
33:43aquatic
33:44many times
33:53but now
33:54their relationship
33:55with death
33:56it took a new turn
34:07spiritualism
34:08was captivating
34:09to the world
34:11It was a new one
34:12US version
34:13of the old idea
34:14that the dead
34:15they could communicate
34:16with the living
34:18at the time
34:19the sessions
34:20of spiritualism
34:21implied
34:21all kinds
34:22of phenomena
34:23inexplicable
34:25the mediums
34:27They could be tied up
34:28and yet
34:28they were sounding
34:29tambourines
34:29and bells
34:30mysteriously
34:31and it was ensured
34:32that the dead
34:33They carried messages
34:34to the living
34:36Houdini
34:37suspected
34:37that it was
34:38of tricks
34:39and delusions
34:41but death
34:42from her beloved mother
34:42This led him to consider
34:44at least
34:44the promise
34:45of spiritualism
34:53one of the first
34:54supporters
34:55of this new religion
34:56was the renowned
34:57author of the stories
34:58from Sherlock Holmes
34:59Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
35:03the unusual friendship
35:05between Doyle and Houdini
35:06had its origin
35:07in a disagreement
35:10Doyle believed
35:11that Houdini
35:12could dematerialize
35:13It was the only way
35:14escape
35:15where he went
35:16Houdini taught him
35:18nursery magic
35:19the tricks
35:20simpler
35:20what I would do
35:21a child
35:22five years old
35:22and Doyle
35:23she fainted
35:24thinking
35:24My God
35:25This man
35:26has started
35:26the finger
35:27really
35:28Doyle promised
35:29convince Houdini
35:30of authenticity
35:31of spiritualism
35:32preparing a session
35:34Mrs. Doyle
35:35era medium
35:36writer medium
35:37and sat down at the table
35:39with a blog
35:39to write
35:41went into a trance
35:42and soon the mother
35:43Houdini's
35:44he began to speak
35:45through her
35:46Houdini emerged
35:47of that session
35:48very depressed
35:50felt
35:50those poor people
35:52He let himself be deceived
35:52ridiculously
35:54the message received
35:56I had nothing
35:56what to do with her mother
35:57and it bothered him
35:58especially
35:59that the messages
36:00arrive in English
36:01when her mother
36:02I didn't speak it
36:04only served
36:05to emphasize
36:06their rejection
36:08the Doyles
36:09they felt
36:09that Houdini
36:10I should be there
36:11Much obliged
36:12for having returned it
36:13to his mother
36:14but he
36:15I not only felt
36:15that they let themselves be deceived
36:16besides
36:17it felt
36:18used
36:19in a way
36:23he believed
36:24like me
36:25which was a duty
36:26of his profession
36:27so it was
36:29from session to session
36:30always succeeding
36:31the same old lies
36:34He discovered the tricks
36:35discovered
36:36psychological traps
36:37that were used
36:38He did everything he could
36:40to unmask
36:41to those
36:41spiritualists
36:42frauds
36:42charlatans
36:43scammers
36:44cheaters
36:44and thieves
36:46one more time
36:48Houdini
36:48he reinvented himself
36:49in addition
36:50now it was
36:51Houdini
36:51the defender
36:52of the truth
36:53Houdini
36:53the scourge
36:54of those who
36:54They use tricks
36:55to take advantage
36:56of the afflicted
36:57and whose sessions
36:58of spiritualism
36:59they had mocked
37:00of his own
37:00loss
37:03he wanted to report them
37:05by all means
37:06those bells
37:07of spirits
37:08They sounded thanks
37:09to tricks
37:10of magic
37:12the mediums
37:13outraged
37:14They cursed him
37:15and they invoked
37:16to the spirits
37:16so that they could take them
37:17Houdini
37:20soon they would see
37:21compliments
37:21their wishes
37:22and in a way
37:23unexpected
37:25Houdini
37:26He was no longer young
37:28at times
37:29of frankness
37:29wrote
37:30that had
37:30that find
37:31a way
37:31less demanding
37:32to earn
37:33life
37:35But it was Houdini.
37:36and I couldn't
37:37surrender
37:37nor admit
37:38his weakness
37:43during the last
37:44months of his life
37:45continued to tour
37:46with a show
37:47which included
37:47from attacks
37:48to spiritualism
37:49and escapes
37:50even elephants
37:51that disappeared
37:54the performance
37:55lasted
37:55about two hours
37:56It premiered
37:58in New York
37:58and then
37:59went on tour
38:02when he arrived
38:03to Albany
38:04one night
38:05It went wrong for him
38:06torture
38:06water
38:07of the cell
38:08something went wrong
38:09with the machine
38:10to raise it
38:11and the cables
38:12that held him
38:13the ankles
38:13they writhed
38:15and they fractured it
38:17one of the ankles
38:21during the rest
38:23of the month
38:23all actions
38:25what Houdini did
38:27from the first week
38:29October
38:29until his death
38:30she did them
38:32with one ankle
38:32broken
38:34every afternoon
38:36I had to be
38:37standing
38:38a minimum
38:39three hours
38:41should have
38:42self-control
38:42of the pain
38:43incredible
38:44to contain it
38:46and go on stage
38:48to act
38:51nor the pain
38:52sharp
38:52of an ankle
38:53broken
38:53detained
38:54Houdini
38:56got on
38:57to the train
38:57and marched
38:58towards their next
38:58stop
38:59in Canada
39:00when he went to Montreal
39:02brand new
39:02his show
39:03also gave
39:04a conference
39:05at university
39:05at McGill
39:07And this is where
39:09Therein lies the key
39:09of everything
39:12after the conference
39:13three students
39:14from McGill
39:15they went to meet
39:16to the great Houdini
39:16Smilovitz
39:18Price
39:18and Whitehead
39:21Whitehead
39:22he told Houdini
39:23I have heard
39:24that you leave
39:25that they hit you
39:25everything strong
39:26who want
39:27in the stomach
39:28and it doesn't hurt you
39:31according to Smilovitz
39:32Houdini
39:33agreed to that
39:34and as he went to get up
39:35he was lying down
39:36upon waking
39:38Whitehead
39:38he started hitting him
39:39in the stomach
39:40very strong
39:40the third student
39:42that was
39:43in the room
39:43he told her
39:44you're crazy?
39:45Enough, enough
39:45Houdini caught him
39:47completely unprepared
39:48because I believe that
39:49He should have been lying down
39:51resting
39:52and he was going to stand up
39:55and prepare
39:56for the punches
39:59But that man
40:00he hit him
40:01three or four punches
40:02in the abdomen
40:03before he got up
40:05from the sofa
40:08in addition to the pain
40:09of the broken ankle
40:10Houdini
40:11He ignored it too.
40:12to her abdomen
40:13that was going badly
40:13for the worse
40:16the show
40:17must continue
40:18and the tour
40:18continued to Detroit
40:19to go there
40:20two weeks
40:22on the long journey
40:23by train
40:24all the way to Detroit
40:24Houdini's pain
40:26it became unbearable
40:27even for him
40:28There was a doctor
40:29waiting at the theater
40:30and as soon as I saw it
40:31He called an ambulance.
40:33but Houdini
40:34He refused
40:34and he told the director
40:36that he shouldn't worry
40:37I will perform this act
40:38even if it's the last one
40:42it collapses
40:43backstage
40:44hourly
40:45performance
40:46They revive him
40:47They put cold water on it
40:49They wash it
40:49He has chills
40:51and fever
40:51and yet
40:53gets up
40:54and leaves
40:54the show
40:55must continue
40:55He refused
40:57to cancel
40:57the performance
40:58although it ended
40:59barely
41:00each number
41:07in the end
41:08the pleas
41:09of his family
41:10and the insistence
41:11from your doctor
41:11the worsening
41:12of the pain
41:13and the fever
41:14Houdini forced
41:15to go under the knife
41:16where the doctors
41:17they discovered
41:18that had a perforation
41:19in the appendix
41:23the appendix
41:25usually is
41:25to the right
41:26of the lower abdomen
41:27and originates
41:29in the intestine
41:30thick
41:32It's in a section
41:34about 8 or 10 centimeters
41:35and it's long
41:37like this finger
41:37more or less
41:39can point
41:41in any direction
41:42down
41:43up
41:44backward
41:46or as he pointed out
41:48Houdini's
41:48forwards
41:50not only did it cross
41:53the abdomen
41:53also had
41:55an appendix
41:55very long
41:56that had been drilled
41:58the contents
42:00of the intestine
42:00thick
42:01dripped
42:02towards the cavity
42:02abdominal
42:03and had caused him
42:04peritonitis
42:05they removed
42:07the appendix
42:07and irrigated
42:09your abdomen
42:09with saline solution
42:11to combat
42:12the infection
42:14after
42:15Then they closed it.
42:16and they took
42:17Houdini
42:18back
42:18to his room
42:20at the time
42:22former
42:22to antibiotics
42:23an infection
42:24That was almost how it was
42:25a sentence
42:25of death
42:26But there was hope
42:27because that one
42:28He was not a mortal
42:29current
42:29was Houdini?
42:33everyone thought
42:34that
42:34given its
42:35extraordinary
42:36force
42:36and the cult
42:39that yielded
42:39to his body
42:40had possibilities
42:42to survive
42:43to that episode
42:47He underwent another operation.
42:49on the 29th
42:53surely
42:53They didn't do it.
42:54a lot more
42:55to irrigate
42:57your abdomen
42:57with some
42:58saline solution
42:59and of course
43:01the afternoon of the 31st
43:02died
43:06an ending
43:07strangely
43:08mundane
43:08for a demigod
43:0952 years old
43:10death from an infection
43:12provoked
43:13through a perforation
43:14of the appendix
43:15but Houdini
43:17would continue
43:18doing their thing
43:20died
43:20October 31
43:22at one thirty
43:22p.m.
43:23Halloween
43:25his brother
43:26Hardin
43:26He was in the hospital
43:27the night before
43:28and according to him
43:29the last words
43:30Houdini's
43:31spoiled
43:32were
43:32I can't
43:33keep fighting
43:38from death
43:40Houdini's
43:40those who believe
43:41to know the true
43:42history
43:42they have said
43:43who were
43:44the strong
43:44punching
43:45by Whitehead
43:45those who killed
43:46to the great man
43:50but during
43:51all these years
43:52Whitehead
43:53has been a man
43:54faceless
43:55despite the confusion
43:57through the pass
43:57due to the passage of time
43:58our research
43:59has revealed
44:00some data
44:00intriguing
44:01and a photo
44:02that we believe
44:02that reveals
44:03for the first time
44:04the young man's face
44:05that loaded
44:05a long time
44:06with the guilt
44:07of death
44:07Houdini's
44:14during this time
44:15Whitehead
44:16has been
44:17the scapegoat
44:18however
44:19It's almost certain.
44:20that were not
44:20his punches
44:21those who killed
44:22Houdini
44:24an appendix
44:25it is drilled
44:26due to an infection
44:27in 35 years
44:31working baseball
44:34basketball
44:35and professional football
44:37I've never seen
44:39a perforation
44:40appendix
44:41because
44:42of a wound
44:43supported
44:44during a match
44:47Houdini
44:48died
44:48probably
44:49of peritonitis
44:50infection
44:51because
44:51of an appendix
44:52perforated
44:53But there's no reason to.
44:54blame the young man
44:55from arriving
44:55to Montreal
44:59Houdini
45:00I was used to it
45:01to work
45:02with pains
45:03always worked
45:04with blows
45:05fractures
45:06sprains
45:08He worked with some pain.
45:09every day
45:10of his life
45:10It is very likely
45:11even if I had
45:12appendicitis
45:13or when he was
45:14in Albany
45:14and it fractured
45:15the foot
45:15go ahead
45:17there always had
45:18worked
45:19enduring
45:20the pain
45:23But there is a culprit.
45:24more suspicious
45:25that Whitehead
45:26in this matter
45:27pride
45:28unlimited
45:29Houdini's
45:30the same impetus
45:32that helped him so much
45:33to create
45:33to the great Houdini
45:34now he was betraying her
45:35and it was the cause
45:36of its decline
45:41of having gone
45:42before to the doctor
45:43things
45:44would have been
45:44different
45:46would have had
45:46many more possibilities
45:48to survive
45:49But he made two or three.
45:50actions
45:50before accessing
45:51Finally, time for surgery
45:53I think that's why
45:54died
46:00the master of mystery
46:01had died
46:02and his death
46:03It was like someone's
46:04of royalty
46:05They arranged it
46:06with the head
46:07on a taco
46:08of letters
46:08from her mother
46:09in a coffin
46:10that he had used
46:11months before
46:11in an escape
46:14on that occasion
46:15had left
46:16from the coffin
46:17and returned
46:17to the world
46:18of the living
46:20Could the great Houdini
46:21Do it again?
46:23if there were any mortals
46:24capable of returning
46:25of what there would have
46:26after this world
46:27who better
46:28that man
46:28capable of escaping
46:29from anywhere?
46:32It would be an ending
46:33appropriate
46:33and an opportunity
46:34to challenge once again
46:35to his old adversaries
46:37the mediums
46:39to see if they could
46:40make return
46:41his spirit
46:44Mrs. Houdini
46:45he assured
46:46that her husband
46:46before dying
46:47He left a message
46:49And if any medium
46:51he managed to bring it to him
46:53would demonstrate
46:54that he was alive
46:56in the end
46:57the message was
46:58Rosabel believes
47:03at the beginning
47:04of 1929
47:05Mrs. Houdini
47:07advertisement
47:07that a medium
47:08had given it to him
47:09the correct message
47:11Some said
47:12that it was
47:13from some con artists
47:14who took advantage
47:15of a single woman
47:15others
47:17that it was only
47:18advertising
47:18in the style
47:19Houdini's
47:21Houdini
47:22I was back
47:23in the headlines
47:24always the headlines
47:26anything
47:27to appear
47:28in headlines
47:31There was one last
47:33seance
47:34in 1936
47:35I think in Hollywood
47:37and invited
47:38to many people
47:40if Houdini
47:41I was going to come back
47:42It had to be
47:43so
47:44He didn't return
47:45and the last words
47:47while listening
47:48pomp and circumstance
47:50by Sir Edward Elgar
47:51were
47:52Mrs. Houdini
47:54It's been 10 years
47:56expecting
47:57Houdini
47:58He hasn't returned
48:00and Mrs. Houdini
48:02said
48:03good night
48:04Harry
48:05I blow out the candle
48:07with all due respect
48:08had had it
48:10turned on
48:10for 10 years
48:11It's crazy
48:19Houdini
48:19Houdini
48:20He is buried
48:20in New York
48:21but his myth
48:22He's still alive
48:23your name
48:24It remains
48:24synonym
48:25mystery
48:27even today
48:28on Halloween
48:29people
48:29does sessions
48:30of spiritualism
48:31invoking him
48:32waiting for a sign
48:33And why not?
48:36if anyone
48:37could escape
48:38from the tomb
48:38This would be the man
48:39predestined
48:40to escape
48:41to the limits
48:41of his body
48:42and that perhaps
48:43decided his destiny
48:53during the burial
48:56Houdini's
48:56two of the carriers
48:58of the coffin
48:59were
49:00Charles Dillingham
49:01and Florence Zickfield
49:03Houdini's
49:03Houdini's
49:03Houdini's
49:04Houdini's
49:04Houdini's