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[[The Houdini Magical Hall of Fame]] (1968-1995) was opened in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada in 1968 within a renovated meat-packing plant. It contained items from [[Houdini]]’s personal collection of magic. [[File:HoudiniMagicalHallOfFameLogo.jpg|thumb|Logo]]
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| birth_place              = Haedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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[[Marcelo Contento]] (1955-2012) was a magician, shadowgrapher, jazz drummer and arranger, and engineer from Argentina. He owned and operated Marcelo Contento Productions (Marcprod), a business manufacturing magic effects, in Watertown, Massachusetts with his eldest sibling and brother, Victor.
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For many years, Marcprod was considered the top producer of Magicians' props and effects in the market.  Contento and his brother put together everything by hand. When Contento was diagnosed with a Brain Tumorand, the company slowly lost its' prominence  and eventually was forced to shut down its' workshop in Watertown in 2008.
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The museum was chased by freak accidents to its eventual location on the top of Clifton Hill in a century-old Victoria Park train station in 1972.  
  
Born Marcelo Alejandro Rodolfo Contento on January 19th, 1955, to an Italian Physician and a devoted, Italian-born mother, Contento started practicing magic at the age of eight, and at the age of eleven took up drumming after spending some years on the piano and guitar. In his teenage years, he was mentored in magic by the late great [[David Bamberg]] (well-known by his stage name, Fu Manchu), and already playing jazz gigs around Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital.  
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[[Sidney H. Radner]] allowed choice pieces of his collection, which he inherited from Hardeen, to be displayed there. [[Séances]] were held every year at the museum on the anniversary of Houdini’s death, October 31.
  
Bamberg taught Contento an art that was then known as "Chinese Shadows" (now more commonly referred to as "[[Shadowgraphy]]" or "Hand Shadows"), which he would carry alongside with him through life and eventually develop and hone into a unique skill and performing routine. One particularly important piece of advice Bamberg gave Contento was to finish school and go to College, regardless of what he wanted to do in life, and Contento did just that. He graduated College with the Argentine equivalent of a Master's in Electromechanical Engineering, and began working as an Engineer in companies around Buenos Aires. Concurrently, he diligently continued to practice and perform Magic and Jazz, at one point playing with then-well-known Argentine Guitarist Oscar Alemán and his troupe.
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Fire swept through the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame on April 30, 1995, destroying many of the magician's artifacts, closing the museum for good.  
 
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The Houdini Magical Hall of Fame (1968-1995) was opened in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada in 1968 within a renovated meat-packing plant. It contained items from Houdini’s personal collection of magic.
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The museum was chased by freak accidents to its eventual location on the top of Clifton Hill in a century-old Victoria Park train station in 1972.

Sidney H. Radner allowed choice pieces of his collection, which he inherited from Hardeen, to be displayed there. Séances were held every year at the museum on the anniversary of Houdini’s death, October 31.

Fire swept through the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame on April 30, 1995, destroying many of the magician's artifacts, closing the museum for good.

The Houdini Magical Hall of Fame...