Buatier de Kolta (né Joseph Buatier; Caluire-et-Cuire, 18 November 1845 – New Orleans, 7 October 1903) was a French magician who performed throughout...

a settlement in the Gofa Zone of Ethiopia Kolta people, or Koli, a social group of India Buatier De Kolta (1845–1903), French magician Colta (disambiguation)...

decorated with theatrical scenery, is based on a famous stage illusion by Buatier de Kolta, in which a woman disappeared by escaping through a hidden trapdoor...

classic parlour magic effect that was invented by French magician Buatier De Kolta. The magician displays a bird cage, holding it between both of his...

spot. He loved the illusions Maskelyne and Cook performed but it was Buatier de Kolta, then playing there, who performed 'The Vanishing Birdcage', a trick...

(eighteenth century magician Joseph Pinetti Willedall de Merci), and genius inventor Buatier De Kolta; a life-sized kaleidoscope and the 'chessboard of the...

effect of her disappearance". Buatier and Méliès probably met between 1888 and 1890, the latter writing: "Buatier de Kolta, who had given a few auditions...

but it is all the more messy. The origin has been tracked back to Buatier de Kolta, who in 1875, for the first time ever, performed an effect where one...

have been built around a parody of the famous illusionist Buatier de Kolta (born Joseph Buatier, 1845–1903). In the first decade of Méliès's directorship...

based on a famous stage magic act, "Le Dé Grossissant", conceived by the illusionist Buatier de Kolta. De Kolta made a die grow before the audience's eyes...