Recently, CBC Radio dedicated a full episode of their program Ideas to the life and career of Harry Houdini.

Continuing to unearth material from the William McIlhany Collection, we have a wonderful treat: a rare performance from Sid Lorraine.

As countries around the world celebrate Pride, we wanted to find something appropriate from our archive. The majority of our film collection comes from the mid twentieth century, generally prior to about 1975.

Continuing our series of “The Good, The Bad and the… You Decide” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) we are pleased to share this performance from

Continuing our series of “The Good, The Bad and the… You Decide” (Part1, Part 2) we are sharing rare performance footage of Robert Harbin.

Continuing our series of “The Good, The Bad and the… You Decide” we are pleased to share two clips from Arthur Buckley. (If you missed the previous release featuring Lewis Ganson, consider stopping there first.)

At Magicana, we continue to maintain a massive collection of magic related video. These include films and tapes from the William McIlhany Collection as well as those from other private collections.

In a landmark moment for the scholarly study of magic, Indiana University’s Lilly Library has announced the acquisition of the David Ben Magic Collection. The Lilly Library is one of the nation’s preeminent rare books, manuscripts, and special collections libraries.

Friends,