The "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" in the same silent film classic by Robert Wiene from 1920 is a show booth in which the seemingly prophetic "somnambulist" Cesare occurs.
Herrrrrreinspaziert! This can be seen for the first time - Cesare, the somnambulist! Cesare miracle - Twenty-three old years asleep for twenty-three years of continuous day and night - Cesare will rise before your eyes from the rigor mortis - Herreinspaziert "
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" My esteemed gentlemen! Cesare the somnambulist will answer all questions. Cesare knows all the secrets - Cesare knows the past and looks into the future for yourself - If you approach! Ask!
This event tied to well to real role models. With the "fortune telling" is often less spectacular exhibitions or simple illusion shows have been upgraded, so, for example, operated by mirror tricks "misleading" information or Women's albinos often called "clairvoyant" or "mind reader".
"somnambulist" were of a very mysterious effect on the audience and besides the usual practices and convoluted instructions for "reading" the idea of individual viewers had to present in "Trance" "media" command no art skills.
At the beginning of her performance , the "mind reader" is often first in an alleged "hypnotic" or "sleepwalking" mixed state, sometimes with funding from the "magnetism".
clairvoyant, which were also sometimes given as "somnambulist" were, from their "office hours" usually after the show booth programs: "Finally, the somnambulist is talking."
movie quotes and scene image a reprint of the script, published Wiedleroither, Stuttgart 2000
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