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Deliberate MagicLarry BrodahlParlor and stage magic updated! Includes a version of the 6 Card Repeat that has an actual climax as well as a Vanishing Candle you can perform within inches of the audience. This ebook is for the parlor/banquet/stage performer that wants to add funny, well-thought out, and highly visible routines to his or her act. A performer that wants tricks that actually work. Where the nasty things, like angles and spectator management have been thought out. The material is:
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How To Write A ScriptLarry BrodahlHow to write a script that entertains and reaches your audience. Topics include BRAINSTORMING PLOTS as well as ANALYZING THE TRICK FOR WEAKNESSES and many others.. One of the most neglected and misunderstood aspects of performing is: What do I say - how do I say it - and why do I say it? In other words - SCRIPTING! This ebook is written for the magician who performs for people and wants to have better patter than just "Hey, wanna see a trick?" It's written to be used by a performer who wants to amuse, entertain, and add an extra layer of deception to his magic. It's for the magician... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | |
Scripted #1Larry BrodahlA script and performance video showing how the Professors Nightmare and Fiber Optics can make a fun and mystifying routine. One of the more difficult tasks facing magicians is coming up with scripts - of any sort. But it's even harder for tricks that have no preset routine - such as the Professors Nightmare and Fiber Optics. How do you explain to an audience in a reasonable manner how and why this fabulous visual magic is happening? Well, the author of How To Write A Script shows you how he used his methodology to write a script that successfully blends the Professors Nightmare with the moves from Fiber Optics... | $8 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Scripted #2: Malini Egg BagLarry BrodahlA script, analysis, and performance video showing how entertaining and mystifying a trick the Egg Bag can be. And without using the "Hide the egg under my arm" type gags. One of the more difficult tasks facing magicians is coming up with scripts - of any sort. But it's even harder for tricks that have no preset routine - such as the Egg Bag. How do you explain to an audience in a reasonable manner how and why you're doing this? How do you make this magical? How do you create the climax? And how do you do this without retreading old ideas, such as the "fake hide-theegg-under-the-arm gag"? ... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Scripted #3: Sympathetic SilksLarry BrodahlA fairly forgotten classic turned into a beautiful performance piece for any group. Includes the script, full instructions, and a performance video. One of the more difficult tasks facing magicians is coming up with scripts - of any sort. How do you explain to an audience in a reasonable manner how and why this fabulous magic is happening? Well, the author of How To Write A Script shows you how he used his methodology to write a script that successfully explains...in a bare minimum of script...the Sympathetic Silks. Part of the scripts' charm is that the audience sees a trick performed in just FOUR words. ... | $8 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Scripted #4: The 21 Card TrickLarry BrodahlA free e-Manuscript that illustrates how scripting, routining and analysis can turn even the oldest and most well known trick into a true performance piece. Who doesn't know the 21 card trick? Nobody, that's who. And that unfortunately includes many laymen. So, the author of "HOW TO WRITE A SCRIPT" decided to tackle this trick - in it's classical format - as a challenge to create a script and handling that disguises the mathematical method while entertaining the onlookers. This ebook supplies the script and simple moves that resulted from that challenge. The script has audience involvement,... | ★★★★★ $0 to wish list | |
Scripted #5: Lie DetectorLarry BrodahlNick Trost's Automatic Lie Speller turned into two different scripts complete with by-play, jokes, and mystery. One of the more difficult tasks facing magicians is coming up with scripts - of any sort. How do you explain to an audience in a reasonable manner how and why a deck of cards can detect and correct lies? Well, the author of How To Write a Script shows you how he used his methodology to write a script that successfully explains the power of Nick Trost's Automatic Lie Speller. There are actually two scripts given. One is for groups where you want to involve more than one person, and whispering would... | $8 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Scripted #6: Lie Detector with 4 ObjectsLarry BrodahlImagine a self working trick that uses 4 objects and only three questions that allows you to determine which object or objects the spectator(s) are thinking of. Now add fun, misdirection, and a performance video. One of the more difficult tasks facing magicians is coming up with scripts - of any sort. Especially a routine where you have 1 or more audience members mentally select any of 4 objects and then answer 3 questions with either lies or the truth. And you identify the truthtellers -vs- the liars, and you discern which object they were thinking of. How do you explain to an audience,... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Scripted #7: Solution 6Larry BrodahlA reworking of the 6 Card Repeat like none other. Using no gimmicked cards, the trick has a funny and visual plot, and for once a true climax. Are you looking for a methodology and script for the 6 Card Repeat that steps outside the usual plot of "I saw a guy count 1,2,3,4,5,6 cards, throw away 1,2,3 and he still had 6 cards"? Because let's face it, the story is silly, doesn't have any spectator 'hook' nor does it have a recognizable climax beyond the weak ending of "And I still don't know how he did it." Well, the author of How To Write A Script shows you how he used his methodology to adapt a script... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish list | |
Scripted #8: Counting on LotharLarry BrodahlThis is a complete script and revised handling for the COUNTING ON LOTHAR trick, perhaps one of the strangest and mystifying card tricks around. It allows the magician to predict the past, the present, and even the future. One of the more difficult tasks facing magicians is coming up with scripts – of any sort. Especially a script that has to account for dealing and counting processes, unusual display processes, and a trick that has no climax. This is a complete script and revised handling for the COUNTING ON LOTHAR trick, perhaps one of the strangest and mystifying card tricks around.... | $8 to wish list | |
Scripted #9: Serendipity DeckLarry BrodahlImagine being able to control coincidence. Where the time and location of two events determines the outcome of the events. This script and full instructions explains how. Imagine being able to control coincidence. Where the time and location of two events determines the outcome of the events. Now you can! The magician removes a BLUE backed card from his pocket as he talks about coincidence, and how coincidence is decided by two factors: physical proximity and time. He has someone sit on the card. He then removes a RED backed deck from his pocket, and spreads the cards out front and back... | $8 to wish list | |
Scripted #10: Brody's ChokerLarry BrodahlThis is a complete script and revised handling for the Grandmother's Necklace principle, which not only fools people, but entertains them. One of the more difficult tasks facing magicians is coming up with scripts - of any sort. Especially with a trick that is old and tread worn, like Grandmother's Necklace. This is a complete script and revised handling for the Grandmother's Necklace principle, including a variation in how the trick works. The effect is that the magician, using 2 volunteers from the audience, causes 2 differently colored ropes to completely pass through the spectators'... | $8 to wish list | |
Scripted #11: Rising CardLarry BrodahlA script and method for the Rising card trick where the spectator goes through the deck and selects the card to rise. Can be done within inches of the audience with no sleight of hand. One of the more difficult tasks facing magicians is coming up with scripts - of any sort. A script that highlights the magic while still being relatable to the audience. The effect is that the magician shuffles and then hands the spectator the deck of cards, while explaining that he's going to do a trick onehanded. The spectator HIMSELF removes one card and puts it face down on the table, and then gives... | $8 to wish list | |
World of Super Mentalism IILarry BeckerThis is the second volume in Larry Becker's series of mentalism. More of the same outstanding mentalism. In the epilogue of volume 1 Larry wrote that this might be his first and last book depending on the response he will receive. Well, the response was overwhelming and Larry answered with an even larger volume of astounding routines for mentalists. There is enough material for several full evening shows. And with a bit of thought you can use Larry's methods and principles to come up with your own unique miracles. Here is volume one: World of Super Mentalism I. 1st edition 1979; edited and new layout in 2004; 151 pages.... | ★★★★★ $29 to wish list | |
Mentalism for MagiciansLarry BeckerMore wonderful and baffling routines by the creative mind of Larry Becker. 1st edition 1981; original 66 pages; PDF 52 pages.
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Larry Becker's Magic Castle LectureLarry BeckerMany years ago the first mentalism trick I purchased was "Psycho II" an incredibly clever method, so clean, so fair but what a deception. Larry in his own words in 1984: At the Psychic Entertainers Association convention in St. Louis, I was requested to demonstrate my abilities for the TV media. The effect that I chose to perform was "Psycho II". Approximately 25 years ago, I released the grand-daddy of this remarkable ESP design miracle as just plain "Psycho". It proved to be an award... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish list | |
Stunners! Plus! Two Decades of Mental MagicLarry BeckerLarry Becker's magnificent opus, Stunners! was first published in 1992. In 1993 at the Society of American Magicians annual convention in New Orleans, Larry Becker received the Milbourne Christopher Foundation Literary Award for this outstanding contribution to the art of Mentalism and Magic. The first hard bound edition sold out in 90 days at a retail cost of $235. So did the soft cover edition in 1996 at $100. Stunners! has become a collector's item bringing anywhere from $300 to $500 and more on eBay. After ten years it was expanded so that you were able to delve into the many variations, improvements and... | ★★★★★ $69 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Russian RouletteLarry BeckerWatch Larry Beckerʼs reputation making, edge-of-your-seat performance of this acknowledged classic, recording live at a real world, after-dinner performance. Next, sit in on a private round table discussion covering a full explanation of this death defying presentation, including the uncut and unrehearsed crucial preshow interview and participant instruction. Nothing is omitted. Every aspect from weapon selection to safety precautions is covered in complete detail. There is even a special selection of hilarious out-takes! Even if you have no intention of performing this spine-tingling presentation,... | ★★★★★ $19 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
An Evening with Larry BeckerLarry BeckerNever before seen video! This is the only recording of Larry Becker's full evening show, beginning to end, for a lay audience. This is a performance only DVD, running more than an hour, shot in May 1990, and featuring the following effects:
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T. C. SpectreLarry BeckerThe spectator removes one card from a full face-up deck and places it into an envelope. This happens while the mentalist turns his back so that he can't see which card the spectator chooses. The remaining deck is gathered and turned face-down by the spectator. The envelope is closed and shown from both sides to demonstrate that nothing can be seen through the envelope. Then the envelope is placed by the spectator inside another envelope. The mentalist then reads the spectators mind to reveal the card that is inside the envelope. Larry has come up with a nice presentation. He doesn't simply... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
It's About Time!Larry BeckerThe performer states that for thousands of years, devices have been invented and used to measure and keep track of time. The first time measuring obelisks and water clocks were introduced in Mesopotamia and Egypt as early as 2000 BC. Tonight, he continues, we're going to explore both time and its relation to man's ability to project images telepathically. Removing a small packet of blank cards, the performer explains they will be used to focus on an hour and a timekeeping device that will be thought of by a member of the audience. A volunteer is randomly selected to assist in the demonstration.... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish list | |
Clearly PredictableLarry BeckerThis is one of the slickest and cleanest prediction effects I know. A spectator gets a sealed envelope to keep, circles one classified ad in a newspaper, and removes a bill from her wallet and signs it with her initials. Another spectator completely fairly selects a card from a spectator shuffled pack. Despite all of these fair and clean selections the mentalist has predicted all of them. The selected card is printed on the newspaper, and the prediction envelope holds the serial number of the bill and a copy of the classified which was freely selected by the spectator. Some preparatory... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Standing OvationLarry BeckerLarry Becker is an internationally recognized power house of mentalism. He has created some of the most baffling and amazing mental miracles and has performed his brand of mentalism all over the world. His innovations and creations are many. In these videos he will perform and teach several of his masterpieces.
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Mental MasterpiecesLarry BeckerLarry Becker is a name in mentalism that doesn't need any introduction. Here he performs a 40-minute show in front of a live audience and then teaches every nuance of every effect performed except the last effect.
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