Houdini overboard box escape

This excerpt from "High Lights of the Strenuous Career of Harry Houdini, Edited and Compiled by Houdini's Brother Hardeen" shows Houdini performing an overboard box escape on June 30, 1917 in Westport, Connecticut.
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[@asimpson164]

The middle board, the one his arm reaches through pulls inside of the crate. He slips out the missing plank area between the ropes and pulls it back into place once outside.

[@starrystarrynight6281]

Probably he did have a bandage on his wrist

[@lobserve1]

Thanks for posting

[@OckGal]

Those legs could totally crack a walnut, could they not?? :D I don't think I could take these videos if they had sound. I can't even imagine the level of awesomeness that would add to already awesome videos.

[@ovidbrandy]

The sequence from 2:52 to 3:22 seems unrelated- apparently from a different event or from cinematic footage. The box underwater lacks the affixed cylinders of pig iron seen above water, and the arms that reach out from the box have shirt sleeves even though he entered the crate with arms bare.

[@HoudiniWild]

Correct, that footage is actually from his movie, The Master Mystery.

[@Mr.H-YT42]

Again, it's like you've read my mind and posted exactly what I needed. Thanks so much!

[@CantaloupeJones]

Good video Subbed

[@luisjesus3592]

🤩

[@adeldalgamouni3933]

is that camera waterproof ? 3:14

[@syedaaqsa1615]

Omg its 😎 cool

[@contatorobsonvianna]

Filmagem debaixo da água naquele tempo?

[@James-kv6kb]

Somehow other footage got put in there because he's wearing a shirt but I'm not sure about underwater filming

[@AnHonestLiar]

the answer is in the reply up top. its from his movie added in.

[@MW-nOttawa]

They could film "underwater" by filming through a glass window in a compartment placed under water.

[@sethchyna]

so hows he do it, i was thinkiing has to be some some escape door

[@Durwood71]

He was likely out of the shackles before the box was even lifted into the air, and I suspect the bottom of the crate was rigged to allow him to easily lift it up from inside.

[@hazeboy8981]

Escape demon but nah possibly 😅