(Nov 20, 2016 06:22 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: LOL! Right. Those grainy lines in the background MUST be wires..Wires held by what?
Keeping in mind the time of these "events" was the era where travelling shows and mystacism were the modern equvilant of facebook.
well to-do people would book these people to perform shows at their mansions in front of the in crowd party/dinner guests.
there was a solid market of automation and science mixed in to thespianised presentations taking use of the recent news from the east where all sorts of wonderful tales were coming from.
how much is real and how much is just common day science is speculative.
from some reading of that era it suggests most were not concerned with the validity of the function but more soo the event as being like modern day celebrity events. no real content just a show of images and adulation on the pre concieved notion of going to have a good time.
while sifting through the data keep in mind modern day pyramid & get rich quick schemes and the immesion in current day scientific consciousness.