Machini the Marvel performing The Transmutative Hat
The automaton depicts the early 20th Century magician know to audiences as Machini the Marvel ©. The
magician is standing beside a cocktail table draped in red silk. On the table is his upturned top hat.
When the crank is rotated on the side of the automaton, the magician slowly pulls his hand out of the
hat to reveal that he is holding a certain object. As the crank is rotated further, his hand decends into the hat
once again. When it rises, the object has mysteriously and magically changed into a new object!
Machini performs this masterful illusion several times, transmuting the object six times, to the amazement
of all! Upon request, Machini will perform a variation of this illusion in which he changes the color of liquid
within a jar several times.
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