In early cinema, the illusion of movement seemed the provenance of magic;
and the movies and magic were spectacularly combined in the figure of Harry
Houdini, the greatest escapologist and illusionist. Rosabelle Believe
unwinds around a secret coded message agreed between Houdini and Rosabelle,
his wife, which was to be used as proof, after Houdinišs death, of his
escape from the grave
