Original sentence: Furthermore, the size of the suggested platform would have to be quite large to support the curtain towers and guidewires as well as be moved in some silent fashion to not arouse suspicion in the live audience.In the book Bigger Secrets, William Poundstone published his guesses and detailed a plausible-sounding theory for how Steinmeyer's illusion was accomplished.Once the curtains were closed, blocking the view, the platform was rotated—slowly enough to be imperceptible.Poundstone further elaborates that, once the stage rotated, the statue itself was mostly concealed behind a brightly-lit curtain tower.Poundstone suggests that the entire stage and seating area for the audience was atop a rotating platform.Some claim that this explanation is unsatisfactory, maintaining that one end of the statue's pedestal base was visible to the live audience at all times.The radar blip highlighted in the television presentation was simply an animation.This explanation also does not address the photographs that were taken from three different angles around the statue itself during the commencement of the illusion.To further misdirect attention, there were two rings of lights: one, initially lit, around the statue, and another (dark and invisible at first) in the area the audience would end up facing.When the curtains opened again, the audience was facing out to sea rather than toward the statue.When the trick "happened", the statue's lights were doused and the others turned on
Edited sentence: A crowd of spectators were allowed too view the illsion from a platform 200 feet from the base of the statue.A curtain that was fixed to the viewing platform covered the statue from sight for a moment before dropping to reveal that the statue had vanished.Even a team of helichopters brought search lights to reflect upon it.In 1983 for the final illusion of his fifth television special, David attempted to make the Statue of Liberty disappear of the face of its pedistal.The helicopters flashes the lights over the empty platform to prove that nothing was there.The trick took place at night in pitch darkness, so to illumiate Lady Liberty a ring of spot lights at the base lit it up.This illusion is considered one of the greatest of all time