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Ching Ling Foo

He’s credited with being the first modern Oriental magician to achieve world fame. His act was in some respects plundered by an American magician who went on to even greater fame – Chung Ling Soo.

Watch an early Edison film using camera trickery to duplicate a signature routine of turn of the century Vaudevillian magician Ching Ling Foo.


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For more information about Ching Ling Foo, please visit his Wikipedia entry.
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