Animals

Night club performer Senor Torino (Tony Kardyro) reveals his complete stage act in this photo-illustrated ebook. You'll find dove productions, vanishes, transformations and more. There's sure to be something here that you will use.

Audiences really sit up and take notice when live animals are involved in a magic act. Torino explains the inner workings of his nightclub routine, down to secret methods and insider tips to keep your props, wardrobe and birds in tip-top condition.

A working pro never goes onstage unprepared. The author includes his complete checklists and sequences for props,...

Probably the best book on dove magic. Teaches care and feeding of doves, types of cages, presentation pointers, conditioning the audience, etc. Along with many fine dove effects such as The Floating Dove, Dove Tray Production, Egg to Dove, Production Dove Cage. There is an appendix containing Slydini's Master Dove Production. Illustrated with drawings and photos.

Contents

• Foreword
• Foreword to the Revised Edition
• Care, Feeding, and Handling of Doves
• Training Is a Two-Way Street
• The Tinting of Doves
• For Assistants Only
• Conditioning the Audience
• Can I Become That Good?
• Pointers on...

No one can really call himself a magician, unless he can pull a rabbit out of a hat. It is the most expected trick in magic today. Even though few magicians do it; you always have kids asking, "Are you going to pull a rabbit out of a hat?"

Potential clients calling about birthday parties, often ask if you can pull a rabbit out of a hat. Some magician's try to pacify the mothers or children using a mirror box production of a rabbit. Good try, but it is not the same. People want to see a rabbit produced from an empty top hat, or even a borrowed hat. If you can do this; you have a big advantage...

Jack Kodell flew into London late in 1977 and David Berglas interviewed him for this very special recording. Jack Kodell was one of the first to use small trained birds in his act. Jack talks about the creation of his act and gives useful hints and tips on the use and care of small birds and doves.

Livestock workers - this is the ebook you have been waiting for. Practical magic with livestock - all necessary apparatus is easy to make.

• Foreword
• The Rabbit And Hat
• Another Rabbit And Hat Method
• Still Another Rabbit And Hat Effect
• The Rabbit Disappears
• Rabbit To Box Of Candy
• The Coming Of A Cavy
• The Vanish Of A Dove
• Produckshun
• Magician’s Table
• The Guinea Pig Goes To Heaven

PDF 19 pages.

A symposium of material from John Shirley, Maurice Blackman, Brian LeSlie, Eric Lewis, Rupert Gilbert, Stuart Leith, Joe Zering.

Contains over fifty tricks and routines with parakeets, including many ideas for building special small illusions featuring the birds. Sections by several different experts on training and teaching the parakeets the first simple tricks which start them off to stardom. A complete section on the care, feeding and handling of parakeets.

Parakeet Magic is inexpensive to get started with - all it takes is a few dollars investment plus your time and enthusiasm. But...

Table of Contents

3. Content

   Liquid and Chemical Magic

4. Introduction
4. The Magic Wine and Water
6. The Star of Fate
7. Refreshments to Order
10. The Vanishing Froth
10. The Flying Smoke
12. The Haunted Flask

    Tricks with Livestock

14. Introduction
14. Rabbit Produced from Hat
15. Rabbit from a Spectator
15. Rabbit Vanishes in a Newspaper
16. Goldfish Catching in Mid Air
17. The Flying Bird Cage
19. The Dove Cot
20. The Canary in the Electric Bulb
22. Birds of the Air
23. The Vanishing Ducks

1st edition 1931; 26 pages.

The first book of its kind, it contains information you will not find elsewhere on the inside secrets of snake magic and snake charming.

Have you ever wondered how magicians and snake charmers touch deadly cobras on the nose and NOT GET BITTEN? Well, it is not just nerve. It is a clever trick that few people know how it is done. Both Al Mann and Devin Knight have done this trick many times. Al Mann learned the secrets in India from street magicians and passed the information on to Devin Knight. Devin performed this trick when he was visiting China. Both Al Mann and Devin Knight improved upon...

Hurry! Hurry! Step right up, folks! See Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, the Wild Man of Borneo, the Fire-Breathing Man, and that's just for starters! Learn the inner secrets of the sideshow including fire walking, animal training, ventriloquism, juggling, geek stunts, special stage effects, and even the inside secrets of the professional card sharp.

Teach your dog to be a "magician!" Several effects and methods are described. Amaze your friends by carrying on a conversation with your "talking cat!" When you learn how easy it is to "throw your voice," you'll have more fun than a person has a right...

From the introduction

There are many livestock vanishes, but none so easy-working or so mystifying as the following effect, in which the magician explains how the trick is done, yet leaves the audience completely baffled.

6 pages.

Everything you need to know about using rabbits in your act - lots of tips on care and maintenance, along with plenty of tricks and anecdotes. Plenty of pictures of bunnies and magicians. Interesting reading.

• How The Rabbit Got Into Magic
• Pets 'N Prestidigitation
• The Top Hat - Square Circle - Ten Rabbit Production
• Cherchez La Rabbit
• Back Stage Rabbit Vanish
• The Bunny Bit
• How To Do The Most Popular Trick In The World
• Irving's Bunny Cotton-Tail
• Bunny In A Basket
• Twin Chests, A Routine For Twin Rabbits
• A Unique Live Stock Production
• Carlton King's Rabbit Box
• The Artist Draws A...

A series of letters, between an unidentified friend and his correspondent (William Frederick Pinchbeck) comprising of how to train a pig, invisible lady and acoustic temple, philosophical swan, penetrating spy glasses, several magic tricks, such as how to catch a bullet, and reflections on ventriloquism.

This book includes the first known description of the "Eight Kings" card stack.

1. Method of teach the Pig – from Letter I. to IX. See also Letter V. Appendix
2. Principles of the Acoustic Temple – from Letter IX. To XIV. See also Letter II. Appendix.
3. A Demonstration of the philosophical...

This ebook is a collection of ideas, tricks, suggestions and articles from the pages of TOPS Magazine of Magic, dealing with magic with doves.

Contents:

• A cane appears and seconds later a dove appears on the cane.
• A dove vanishes in a cloth foulard.
• A piece of paper is folded into the shape of a bird - it magically transforms itself into the real thing.
• The New Master Dove Vanish (based on The Dizzy Limit style of vanish) is easy to make and startling when used.
• Ren Fetzers Dove from Newspaper, Dove in Balloon and Dove from Egg are all practical and unique.
• There is Kirbys Streamlined...

Perhaps no other effect is so much associated with the magician as that of producing a rabbit from an empty hat. And, oddly enough, so few magicians today use a rabbit in their act.

Where the idea of producing a rabbit from a hat originated is not certain. The favorite story seems to be about the 18th century English woman who felt that she was not getting the attention she deserved. She told her husband and neighbors that she had been accosted by a rabbit and some time latter she took to her bed. The story immediately went out that she had given birth to several rabbits. The story naturally...

More than 25 tricks, tips, and ideas for performing with live as well as life-like rubber doves. Tricks for TV, nightclubs, schools and theaters. If you are a dove worker, you can't afford not to own this wonderful, exciting ebook.

• "About The Doves"
• The Classic Glove To Dove
• Technicolor Doves
• Passe-Passe Doves
• Hypnotizing A Dove
• Challenge Vanish
• Air Mail Dove
• The Dove In The Balloon
• Cone And Dove
• The Supreme Gimmick
• Bags Of Doves
• Cane To Dove
• Mexican Doves
• Jap Doves
• Blackstone's Vanish
• Dove From Newspaper
• Devil's Dove
• The Doves From The Hat
• Silken Dove
• Crystal Dove Bag ...