The Life And Magic Of The Real Harry Houdini | The Magic Of Houdini | Timeline

one of the great privileges of working at history here and making films together with our team at timeline is the access we get to extraordinary historical locations like this one stonehenge i'm right in the middle of the stone circle now it is an absolutely extraordinary place to visit if you want to watch the documentary like the one we're producing here go to history hit tv it's like netflix for history and if you use the code timeline when you check out you'll get a special introductory offer see you there [Music] i've always liked magic i had a pack of cards when i was a kid in a book of tricks even on a wand there's a kid growing up in the 70s you couldn't turn the television on without somebody sawing a lady in half [Music] but of course the magician who intrigued me the most was harry houdini houdini was one of america's first celebrities rising from abject poverty to extreme wealth and from obscurity to international fame he was the original adrenaline junkie drawing crowds of hundreds of thousands to watch his death-defying escapes he could make the impossible appear possible harry houdini was extraordinary the ultimate entertainer he perfected the art of illusion and was the master of self-promotion i believe that he was quite simply the greatest showman of all time the chinese water torture cabinet is houdini's most terrifying escape act holding his breath underwater for minute after minute shackled upside down suppressing fear and panic [Music] for me this represents everything that is fascinating about houdini how he pushed his body and mind to their very limits risked his life each day to entertain and used his vivid imagination to conjure up compelling dangerous acts but just what drives a man to forge a career cheating death to stop at nothing to become the greatest showman of all time it all began here america 1900 the birth of the modern world at its heart new york pulsating with technology and progress skyscrapers soar electricity illuminates and the statue of liberty is being built america is busy branding itself the land of opportunity millions of immigrants across the atlantic from eastern europe to be part of this moment amongst them a young boy then called eric weiss houdini came to america from hungary at the age of four in 1878 there's a picture here she was in when he was three and a half a tiny little lad with four brothers and a sister to compete with for a small boy the future was a mystery for many of the new immigrants the land of the free was anything but dreams of fame and fortune were replaced by the grim reality of starvation disease deprivation and the vice family was no exception eric's father samuel meyer a failed rabbi had not only lost his job but was now dying of cancer the family faced crippling poverty and on hearing this news the young eric who was fiercely devoted to his mother set out to do everything he could to impress her to provide for her and to protect her could this be the first clue as to where houdini got his incredible determination and drive from from a young age no obstacle would get in his way in fact it spurred him on at eight he left school to shine shoes and sell newspapers at nine he performed as a trapeze artist calling himself the prince of the air and at 12 he accompanied his ailing father to find work in the centre of new york leaving his beloved mother behind [Music] eric and his father lived here in mrs heffler's boarding house probably a less than salubrious affair 19th century america not a great place to be poor with cold water and disease and gangs and prostitutes on the street the young eric knew he had to exploit every possible opportunity he could find hearing of a magical place over in brooklyn dedicated to pleasure curiosity and fun he knew instinctively it was for him coney island had been attracting holidaymakers since the 1830s it was a mecca for entertainment full of weird and wonderful sideshow acts for an ambitious boy it was the place to watch learn and perform eric was transfixed and set about learning the skills that would later become the basis for his illusions as at this time eric's repertoire was just simple card tricks and close-up magic this is one solid steel blade and if you'd like to inspect the blade to make sure that it is in fact real one of the most important skills eric learned was how to relax the muscles in the throat a technique that would later allow him to swallow keys to set himself free and produce 50 threaded needles from his mouth [Music] all right that is unbelievable yeah can you feel it as it's going absolutely yes it's all about the ability to focus on one particular thing for a moment and stay there because your life is on the line you know so we're here at coney island where houdini came and he was a teenager thinking this was the opportunity to do something what does the history of this place and the place itself mean to you it's a magical place it truly does change you forever performing here the fact that he came here makes a lot of sense to me eric was hooked he wanted to be a part of this world of exotic performers but was increasingly conscious that his slim build and short stature only five foot five didn't really cut it so this here is our better nails [Music] so he turned his focus to the impressive strong men seeing how physical strength and extreme training was the key to their performance eric knew if he was to stand out from the crowd he had to do the same you want to give it a shot and lay down into their nails want to hurt myself you might you can feel it yeah they're pretty pointy right put your legs right there [Music] trying to nail houdini is a lot harder than i thought and relax if you're not comfortable just adjust yourself [Music] how's that [Music] it's okay i told you yeah anything can be learned doesn't matter what it is you can learn how to do anything it's a matter of controlling the mind and the body you know truly believing that you can do it and then controlling the body to accept whatever it is be it a flaming torch be it a sword be it a spike in your face whatever it is and where's the nearest emergency room uh coney island hospital about a mile and a half away [Laughter] [Music] eric took the maxim mind over mata to heart so began a life dedicated to being in complete control running five miles a day in central park training to keep his body in peak condition never drinking or smoking he was now ready to do anything to be the best the young eric studied the words of this man the french magician robert hudan this book became his bible but then in the trait which he continued throughout his life he threw away the teachings and set about superseding him eric was told that in french if you had an eye to your name it means like so at the age of 17 he became harry houdini and he never look back he was now on his way to becoming a great showman but there was something missing a partner who would love him through thick and thin to help him forge his career and share his secrets when houdini was 21 he caught sight of bess raymond an 18 year old song and dance performer it was love at first sight she was perfect and her 4 foot 11 stature made his 5'5 feel positively macho they married three weeks later houdini said of his marriage to bess this is the one shackle i don't want to escape from [Music] now he had two women in his life his mother and bess in a photograph of the three of them he wrote at the top my two sweethearts he depended on the absolute emotional support of those closest to him and to be a top magician he also demanded his wife and brother fiercely protect the secrets of his act he led them to a bridge halted in the middle turned to them waited for the bells of a nearby church to chime midnight and then rather dramatically had them swear an oath and said i know you will never betray this oath may not have been necessary given this was his wife and his brother and they were already on his team but he was very serious about this now he knew he could trust bess their relationship could move on to a new level so harry and bess became partners and were together on stage for houdini's next great illusion metamorphosis which went something like this securely tied by an expertsman don't know where the box is really from there padlocked in and now i affect my escape and it's quite difficult yeah let's do that ah it wowed the crowds it would of course have been best emerging from the case houdini and bess toured their act with a traveling circus desperate to make ends meet and send money home to his mother cecilia it was a rough hard life and the kind of audiences and fame houdini was dreaming of were nowhere in sight things got so tough houdini nearly threw in the towel but of course for him giving up was not an option instead he knew he had to be resourceful break away from traditional magic transform his act into something startling and radical in 1899 at the age of 25 he chanced upon it this was about to change the history of magic forever and make him a star [Music] houdini ingeniously took a familiar object that his audience is associated with fear and incarceration and turned it into something extraordinary a new act was born yes ladies and gentlemen escapology harry houdini was going to show the world how he could break free from seemingly impossible shackles i think what you have here is an extremely intelligent guy who is desperate to express himself and i think his preferred means of expression would have been through words he never had any education he never went to school so he's kind of tongue-tied he can't express himself then he discovers breaking out of handcuffs and expressing himself in that way did he feel quickly that this might be the way to success for him i think at the beginning it was about proving that although he was poor and uneducated he could nevertheless make it in the big world and and break out of poverty and break out of all the disadvantages that he'd had i think when he was doing his act he was kind of magically freeing himself in a way that nothing else enabled him to do and i think there was a kind of current between him and the audience that sensed this and was extremely powerful the challenge for houdini now was to go from being a successful small town entertainer to an international hit ahead of the game he did what any self-respecting rock star does today went on a world tour america russia europe in each city he printed flyers advertising himself as the handcuff king he set up publicity stunts demanding the local police lock him in jail by the time he had broken free his shows were a sell-out in 1904 thirty-year-old harry houdini arrived in london a city alive with vaudeville acts and music halls but to his disappointment they'd never heard of his handcuff escape act and frankly they're not that keen faced with a prospect of failure something houdini couldn't stomach he boldly walked into scotland yard there he impressed detectives so effectively with his escapes word got around he now had one final test to seal his reputation here at the hippodrome in leicester square he was challenged by the daily mirror newspaper to get out of fiendishly difficult handcuffs that had allegedly taken five years to make so here we are inside london's famous hippodrome now a casino as you can see but back then there were 4 000 people in here plus a hundred journalists houdini with the cuffs on disappeared behind a curtain and began to struggle that was the show the curtain a band played a warts and houdini struggled the crowd waited about 25 minutes in he said he was restricted in his movements by his coat and could he take it off and they said no so they got a pen knife and began to cut the sleeves off his coat and he reappeared went back behind the curtain and commenced the struggle again an hour went by the crowd waited the band played and then after an hour and seven minutes he emerged cuffles that was a standing ovation pac-man four thousand people on their feet houdini now had london in the palm of his hand he was the biggest star in the country how on earth had he achieved the impossible that of course was his allure he always maintained an air of mystery i know he must have used pics and keys but where did he hide them especially as most of the time he was semi-naked the houdini museum in new york might just hold the answers here fill these so the only way to get into these is to have the key they have the key or know some of houdini's secrets so could you give me a few examples of places where he could hide pics and keys and gimmicks sometimes in his hair sometimes hanging on the back of his vertebrate or his wife would give him a kiss and possibly pass the key to him that way we also have the metal plate that houdini would attach to his knee so when he had a certain pair of handcuffs when you hit the metal plate that would be able to open up the handcuffs so let's play a little game you're locked in here's the key sir ladies and gentlemen the amazing alan take the key in i can't get that in there ah very good i can't read did he have a tiny pointy face would you like a kind of like a weasel here's the secret by using this you would then be able to twist and then open the cups i'll save you from over here [Music] harry houdini in his early 30s was the toast of europe and america with his new found wealth and success he could now buy real estate in new york and lavish gifts upon his aging mother he even bought her a dress that he claimed had been made for queen victoria but despite all this houdini felt far from satisfied this is i think part of what drove him on as soon as he had amazed crowds with one escape he wanted to ratchet it up to another level [Applause] houdini was about to add a terrifyingly dangerous twist to his act in preparation houdini would try and hold his breath underwater and freezing cold wow [Music] so his record was three minutes 45 seconds he practiced rages so so houdini's instinctive sense of showmanship was extraordinary whilst other affordable performers were hidden away in theaters and music halls houdini did the unexpected the audacious he decided to perform his handcuff escapes out in the open and underwater it was inspired he could draw huge audiences this was a dynamite 360 degrees spectacle in fact this was so successful it actually caused houdini a problem copycat acts sprang up everywhere but no one was about to steal houdini's thunder with his no-nonsense motto do others or they will do you he designed very public challenges to destroy the reputation of his rivals on the 21st of september 1905 houdini came here to battery park in manhattan with the intention of throwing himself into the icy waters of the hudson he'd set up a challenge with another escape artist bondini and they would race against one another to try and free themselves from wrist and ankle shackles he plunged nearly naked into the water and disappeared from view [Music] after one minute and 30 seconds houdini came to the surface his hands were free bondini almost drowned the huge crowd in battery park broke into cheers they'd seen one of his first attempts at a life and death spectacle a whole new thing in entertainment escaping underwater evidently obsessed houdini he began to devise increasingly terrifying and claustrophobic stunts the one that gives me the willies is the milk can escape handcuffed and sealed inside an oversized milk can fill with water the dramatic posters read failure means a drowning death i wonder where this fixation with water came from there is a story that when he was just five years old he fell into a lake struggling for his life very nearly drowned could this terrifying encounter explain why he forged a career performing death defying stunts i'm meeting illusionist david blaine's personal doctor to find out how risky houdini's underwater escapes really were so if we take houdini in the milk can once the top goes on there what's happening to his body straight away your body is screaming breathe breathe breathe and you can't because you're underwater what happens if you hold your breath under water too long and the carbon dioxide goes up you will pass out underwater as soon as you hold your breath you're producing carbon dioxide within your body that normally you would expel so you you're poisoning yourself really is that right yes you are basically making your brain shut itself down now how do you overcome this well willpower you have to put yourself in circumstances more extreme so that you can know you can tolerate those things which are going to be during the event it is highly physically demanding and these people are in unbelievable physical and and more importantly emotional and mental shape so the other thing i wanted to ask you about it's about houdini's childhood because there's a story that when i think he was about five years old he had a near-death experience he nearly drowned do you think there's any possibility that that trauma in his childhood led him to some fascination with water and repeating that experience or something later in his adult life well it's a very interesting question trauma does lots and lots of things in in some ways i think the trauma showed him that even if he is near death there is a possibility of escape and he then used that to say i can make it so that people will think i cannot but i will show them that i can each act was a remarkable feat of endurance withstanding pain overcoming fear repressing panic worse things didn't always go to plan in new york he gashed his head on the ocean floor in mississippi the current was so strong he nearly drowned most would stop at that but houdini desperate to impress was hell-bent on pushing his underwater act even further the chinese water torches sound this was houdini's most notorious act combining the most terrifying elements hanging upside down being confined being submerged underwater his performance is pure theater watching houdini cheat near death is compelling and cathartic like waking from a nightmare there is a palpable sense of fear followed by deep relief i'm meeting richard sherry and dale crawl who have spent a lifetime and a marriage captivated by houdini richard has made an exact replica of the water torch's cell and his wife who is roughly houdini-sized performs the act is it painful yes it hurts quite a bit yeah it's very painful so you get your feet locked up and then once you're raised up vertically you have the pain of your entire weight pulling down just on your feet now i've been upside down and i didn't like it at all i found it thoroughly disorienting you rapidly lose the capacity to think a bit of pressure on your face when you're hanging upside down yeah houdini probably had the same thing when you're hanging upside down it's hard to get that last breath [Music] then when you go to the bottom of the water tank you actually have the water pressure pushing on you as well is it frightening yeah it is i've had blood vessels burst in my eyes if something were to happen there's so much water above you that you know you're in trouble there's always the potential that something's gonna go wrong [Music] with houdini immersed in the tank the red curtain came across the audience would hold their breath waiting for houdini to escape and he did night after night although he knew how to get out there was always that possibility that could all go wrong and to do this day after day horrific this is about the scariest thing i'm prepared to do nearly dying [Music] in the era of the silent movie houdini flourished embracing the new techniques and making them his own houdini was first becoming one of america's most famous celebrity entertainers and this is how he did it he made himself the star of the show got the cameras to roll the crowds to cheer houdini was single-handedly pioneering a very modern relationship between performer audience and the press he had an insatiable need for success to be the number one and so he create this incredible stunts here in times square he hung up there dangling from a straight jacket not just a great magician but a great showman thank you very much i've already drawn a crowd of six people you can see the old straight jacket thing hasn't lost its allure in order to be suspended properly upside down houdini would have to lay himself down and the crowd of people a hundred thousand men all wearing hats would watch him trust up by the legs and then raised [Music] look at what he did yes the cunning houdini ever wanted to spot an opportunity pulled these straightjacket escapes in front of newspaper offices they only had to pop their head out the window to take a front-page photo he even suggested the headlines for them houdini may be fated as a magician and illusionist but i'm beginning to realize that first and foremost he was a master of self-promotion so houdini's popularity you can understand he's an amazing entertainer he was a brilliant showman he was an incredible self-publicist but i wonder if there's something more did he epitomize something for the crowds of people who came to see him was it the epitome of the american dream are they thinking yes we too could be like harry we could work hard we can raise ourselves up yes harry throw off your shackles throw off those bonds we could do that we could be free we could be like harry was houdini the poster boy for the american dream cleverly tapping into his audience his hopes and fears well there was a really kind of democratic side to houdini you know performing in front of these hundreds of thousands of people on the street without charging them uh when he's in the theater rolling up his sleeves and coming down to the front of the footlights and addressing the audience as you know hey they're my pals you know that's it no no highfalutin stuff and uh he used everyday objects a packing case a milk can a straight jacket things that people use that were all around them so when they get into what motivated him to push himself so hard well he certainly had a tremendous desire for recognition why do you think that was what was it about him that made him want to be the undisputed number one every single day well there one can really speculate i mean my belief is he was in a family with several other brothers and i think he was always competing to outdo them he wanted to be number one with mom it's a wonderful entry in his diary i think it was in new jersey he was handcuffed in a bridge jumped off the bridge handcuffed instantly got out and was up out of the water and he writes in his diary mom saw me do it i i think that's what houdini is always saying mom saw me do it was impressing his mother really his main motivation i wonder there is no way of ever knowing what was really going on in his head but there is one man who could help me get close he nightly performs here vegas baby vegas houdini created the blueprint for the modern celebrity illusionists and magicians you do a big stunt you make it scary you make sure you have a huge crowd watching and you make sure the press are tipped off this strip is all about height and fantasy this is the coney island of its day las vegas and all the showmen and magicians and illusionists here today they know they are standing on the shoulders of a tiny hungarian there he is david copperfield copperfield's billboard is so big you can see it from the airport and that that is what harry would have wanted i've been granted the rare privilege of seeing copperfield studio where all of his illusions are created it's also the site of his private museum probably the most impressive magic collection in the world houdini is a key inspiration for copperfield he passionately collects everything he can he now owns over two-thirds of all surviving houdini artifacts wow including the restored water torture cell it's incredible that you have the actual things in this room yeah if houdini were alive today and stand right there he'd see his entire life surrounding him you know seeing his things touching them understanding the care he put into each detail i found a kindred spirit i saw the real genius of it i saw that he cared about that detail i mean this trunk just shows how he organized his papers and his plans and his publicity stunts you know uh publicity schemes it says inside that trunk all organized well that's me i mean i didn't realize that that he had that same kind of sensibility so david the one thing that we're unable to do is see houdini will hear him but you have the only recording am i right yes so they say thomas edison uh recorded his uh voice doing the patter of the water torture cell amongst other things on a disc and we've it sounds something like this ladies and gentlemen he's just amazing i cannot believe that he spoke like that normally when he was talking to bess at home maybe his performance i'm home i want my dinner in the water torture cell yes no it could have been you don't know where does the drive come from i mean he was a very driven man wasn't he houdini can you relate to him that drive to wanting to get to the top and then stay there every single artist that has lasted always has a need to to get it right you know for me it's you know i i'm i watch a lot of people who are very satisfied with their work and very satisfied what they're doing and kind of oh that was a good job and i've unfortunately had the curse of not thinking that i'm never satisfied houdini i think is the same i think you know he wanted to always prove himself can i ask you also a bit about his childhood there's a story that he nearly drowned when he was five years old and people wonder if that prompted his obsession later on with going in the water and escaping is any truth in that i think we all in our lives find things that drive us to do what we want need to do you know everything that i've done with escapes and physical things are all to get over fears you know i uh i was had nightmares about getting trapped in the fire and i did a piece called tornado of fire i had a fear of heights a bit and uh i did the ten stories over the spikes which is totally houdini inspired we all have things that we're trying to prove to ourselves to you know get past in our lives so that's really interesting to meet the modern day version the person who has driven and is committed to his craft controls everything that he does wants to be the best never satisfied with what he's done and i really felt like there's a character type there it's probably the closest we're gonna get to houdini and then to hear houdini's voice although it did sound a bit like one of the goons was really special houdini now in his late thirties is earning the staggering sum of up to five thousand dollars a week the equivalent today of over seventy thousand pounds still regularly performing his straightjacket stunts jumping into rivers and if that wasn't enough he was the very first person to fly in australia oh and he was becoming a movie star too houdini was a monumental success but funnily enough he was also exhausted in a rare off-guard moment houdini gave a candid interview to the press hinting at the cost his career was taking on his life and his body i want to be first so i have struggled and fought i have done and abstained i have tortured my body and risked my life only for that to have one plank on the stage where the imitators cannot come one spot where they must fall back and cry master for houdini quite simply failure was not an option he disregarded any personal feelings and continued what he did best entertaining his loyal audience with terrifying acts hard particularly as he was suffering trauma in his personal life his beloved mother cecilia died in 1913. he fainted on hearing the news and was desperately depressed another sadness was that bess and he wanted to have children but never did instead houdini would spend time performing magic tricks to sick children in hospital [Music] and in his career instead of slowing down houdini just kept on striving performing the most demanding of escapes you think he was a bit crazy he's driven i don't know he's crazy because he's crazy he would have been dead no matter if there's a trick or illusion you could die so must have taken a a toll on houdini especially later in his life or doing a show three times a day or a straight jacket escape outside in the wind in the rain whatever these are very strange somebody in their 40s or 50s doing this for 30 years is takes a toll on your body as a matter of fact he would write repeatedly in his diary the work is killing must find it another way work is kelly must find another way you know extra immediately he could feel his powers waning his strength and his muscles and yeah so after a while houdini was interested on maybe there's a way to reverse the process of of aging uh maybe yes and he uh we started to uh investigate uh monkey gland transplants to stay young from the fountain of youth the idea was was to remove uh testicles from a monkey and have them grafted to one's own testicles to stay young and this was not a passing phase who really studied this for four or five years maybe longer if you'd like to read this this is some of his uh correspondence my dear clifford smythe just in line to let you know that my friend dr max thorek the great gland operator we'll call him transplantor has been invited to speak at the rome convention and will arrive in new york sometime this month before he sails if you care to meet him i'll arrange a meeting at my home i know we'll have an interesting conference kindness guard semester which is sincerely yours houdini love the headed note paper houdini 278 west 113th street wow that's amazing well that was extraordinary the idea that he might have had monkey glands sewn to his own testicles but he was obviously so determined to stay on top and people have always wanted to find the elixir of youth and that's just the latest thing i suppose driven that's what kevin kept saying driven driven to stay at the top but i can't think of any entertainers that would actually inflict physical pain on themselves it sounds much more like an olympic athlete like someone like steve redgrave vomiting in the boat after a training session and people who drive themselves to extremes but then he's both he's like an olympic athlete and a great entertainer so he's two things in one really it wasn't just houdini that felt his power waning in the late 1920s america's age of success and excess was about to end the great depression was looming in 1926 as houdini was touring his biggest show yet [Music] his tragic demise began in montreal two young fans came to see houdini one of these boys asked him if it was true that he could withstand a punch to the stomach houdini of course said yes the boy landed several heavy hard punches before houdini had a chance to prepare himself by the time he reached detroit the pain was unbearable but of course he went on and did his show despite a raging temperature and fainting between the acts he was taken to hospital but doctors were unable to cure his ruptured appendix and peritonitis everyone thought the master of escape would pull through but after several days houdini whispered i can't fight anymore on october the 31st 1926 halloween houdini died at the age of 52. the tragedy is that by wanting to be the best enduring a lifetime of overriding pain and overcoming fear he didn't take action when he really was in danger houdini's funeral procession passed through times square thousands took to the streets as requested his head rested on a pile of letters from his mother [Music] now 90 years on houdini is proving just as much of a mystery in death as he was in life i'm off to a seance as houdini enthusiasts still try to contact him every year we have been doing the same with these special seance cuffs that houdini said he would open up after he passed away if it was possible these have been on the table at every saiyan since 1948. [Music] houdini would have loved nothing more than to contact the spirit of his mother but he knew spiritualism was a cheap scam he hated the way mediums preyed on the weak and the emotional so he took it upon himself to debunk these fraudsters and destroy their careers but on his deathbed houdini told his wife bess a secret code so that if a medium claimed they had contacted him from beyond the grave she would know if this was true or not it seemed he wanted to control his reputation even after death well i'm in new york to make a documentary film about houdini and most impressed i think by his courage rounding meant an awful lot to me because i actually saw him when i was four and a half years old and he left an impression on me that will never leave me i guess it just does something to me it always has he was a wonderful wonderful person so i've been in the seance and i'm largely unchanged larry was the star of the show 93 year old larry it just made me feel very sad that we were trying to raise the spirit of someone who died at 52. i'm 47. i'm only five years off 52 it's unthinkable for me i can't die at 52. i've got children two small children i think perhaps it's the great tragedy of houdini's life that he and best never managed to have a baby maybe that would have changed everything maybe he wouldn't have taken those blows in the stomach maybe it would have stopped risking his life maybe he could have been here like larry twinkling away telling us what it was like being houdini in fact houdini did have a child it was perhaps his ultimate illusion he had an imaginary child poignantly named after his father samuel meyer years after his death bess reported that houdini wrote to her every day updating her on the progress of their child these letters stopped only when the sun became guess what president of the united states for a man who epitomized the american dream this would have been the ultimate accolade houdini's story is extraordinary a refugee from hungary a quick witted entrepreneur who dragged himself out of poverty and obscurity a man dedicated to being the best cheating death every day to become the celebrated master of illusion [Music] so perhaps it's true to say that people who lead the most dynamic dazzling lives who leave a real legacy around their own name almost always do so against the background of real personal struggle and great drive with houdini his drive was to push himself to push his mind and his body in particular to to limits previously unknown to see how far he could go how far it was humanly possible to go he made the impossible seem possible driving himself pushing himself but always under complete control as he said himself my brain is the key that sets me free but in doing so he created the impression of a superman a superhuman a superhero some people called it magic you

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