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SELBIT, P.T. (Percy Tibbles). Shadow People Advertising Booklet. Circa 1921. Eight-page publicity booklet describing and picturing Selbit’s stage illusion in which “shadow people” materialize in a frame at the center of the stage. The first example we have encountered. Selbit’s illusion debuted at nearly the same time a Maskelyne & Devant effect was first performed on a London stage, The Window of the Haunted House. Though the illusions are different, they are often confused for each other, and Selbit’s is the lesser-known of the two.