Channel 4 will be airing David Blaine’s ‘What is Magic?’ on September 11th at 10pm. David Blaine travels across America to perform tricks in the UK premiere of the show.
He visits New Orleans where he carries out a money trick in front of locals, producing hundreds of dollars at their fingertips before stopping off at New York to conduct magic in front of Orlando Bloom.
The show includes the infamous The Bullet Catch; a trick which sees a 22 calibre bullet being fired at point blank range directly at the magician who then has to catch the bullet in a small metal cup in his mouth. The stunt is filmed using Phantom Camera technology which shoots 10,000 frames per second so that not a fraction of the action is missed.
Sounds like it's the Dive of Death special re-edited to take attention off the failed stunt's climax of the original DoD special.
Should be interesting–I always enjoy DB's own cuts of his specials more than the originals. Especially Drowned Alive–second cut is much better and has much more magic on it. I'm curious to see what shows up on this new cut of the DoD footage.
Left by Mat on September 6th, 2009