"I worked with Thomas Edison on the phonograph, the light bulb and the motion picture camera," says the young time-traveler. "I stood on the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. I was on Normandy beach on D-Day."
John Curley and Jim Dever, hosts of Seattle's popular King 5 TV show, Evening Magazine, uncovered the secret behind Anthony's time-travel claim: It's all part of a new book by Seattle author Michael Class.
Class used advanced digital photography to place his 12-year-old son, Anthony, in the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis with Charles Lindbergh, on the moon with Neil Armstrong, in the laboratories of Thomas Edison and Jonas Salk and on Normandy beach on D-Day. Father and son labored for nearly four years in their garage filled with props from an army surplus store; the Evening Magazine team saw the garage walls covered with blue bed sheets. The result of the photographic magic: It looks like Anthony really did meet Thomas Edison, Jonas Salk, FDR, Lou Gehrig, Charles Lindbergh and Audie Murphy. The Web site,
Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame Featured on Evening Magazine with John Curley Seattles Popular King 5 TV Show