In 1939 Englishman Harry Leat invented what has become one of the best and most enduring children’s effects of all time. The magician displays a beautifully decorated “brick wall.” On each end of the wall is a door. One of the doors are opened and the magician places a cut-out rabbit inside. As the door is closed, the magician asks the audience to remember where he put the rabbit. As he is talking, the audience sees the rabbit run to the other end of the wall. Of course when the children shout the rabbit is at the other end and right before the magician opens the other end door, the audience sees the rabbit run back behind the first door where he was in the beginning.

Wherever the children shout to get the magician’s attention and right before the magician looks where the children are pointing, the rabbit dashes to the other end! This comical byplay continues and children in the audience become unglued! At one point, the rabbit even peeks from the end of the brick wall! Finally both ends of the doors are opened and the rabbit has vanished completely. He is finally located pinned to the magician’s back or other location. 0058STRUNRABBIT