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These two TT vanishes are beginner vanishes, but they are oh-so different.

These are real foolers. Fit whatever you want in vanish one. It is a full gimmick vanish. Vanish two will hold just about anything as well. You will need a TT gimmick from your magic shop as described in the video. These are absolutely unmodified gimmicks. You probably already have one.

These two vanishes are angle-proof, close-up, easy to learn, and very deceptive. Perform these right in front of your spectator's eyes. No one, I mean no one sees the gimmick.

Vanish one is a deceptive play on the old beginner...

Routines using the extra object principle.

Three small objects are shown, two are placed into the left hand and the third one into a pocket. On opening the left hand, not two but THREE objects are seen. This is repeated a few times, the effect becoming more bewildering as the routine proceeds. In some versions, the objects eventually vanish or are transformed into something different.

From this basic theme, a whole range of tricks has been evolved, the objects employed being almost anything of such a size that can be concealed in the hands.

This was part of the famous Ganson Teach-In...

• Close-Up
  • Giant Cigarette Production
  • Large Match-Stick Production
  • A Sweet Cigarette
  • Sponge Coins
  • An Idea For The Sponges
  • Another Sponge Ball Routine
  • Business Card Intro
  • Chopped Prices
  • Impromptu Ring Penetration
• Ideas For
  • Grown Up Hofzinser (Roy Walton Routine)
  • Ring In Rubik Cube
  • Levitated Deck
  • Pen And Con Starter
  • Paint Brush Variation
  • Vanishing Lighter Flame
  • Vanishing Pocket Watch
• Cards
  • Triple Card To Pocket
  • Mistaken Identity
  • Definitely Between Your Palms
  • Everywhere And Nowhere
  • Same Order Face Up Count
• Stand-Up (Cabaret)
  • Poem For Dai Vernon's Symphony Of The Rings
  • A Knot To Pluck
  • Poem For A...

Excerpt from the introduction:

Here is another classic magic book by Lewis Ganson with effects by Ken Brooke, Peter Warlock, Cy Endfield, Marconick, Tonny van Dommelen and others.

c1950, 59 pages

Table of Contents

2. Introduction
5. Chapter 1: Free Choice
11. Chapter 2: Cy Endfield's Card Penetration and Change
15. Chapter 3: Bags of Everything
21. Chapter 4: Eddie Ward's Zombie Card Rise
23. Chapter 5: Three Penetration Effects
23. (a) Bertram Millidge's New Move with the Jardine Ellis Ring
24. (b) Silk Through Ring
25. (c) Silk through Silk
27. Chapter 6: Ken Brooke's Knot-Out plus a simple routine for the Sympathetic Silks
33. Chapter 7: Ken Brooke's Presentation of the Vanishing...

Excerpt from the introduction:

A superb selection of items from the professional repertoire of Roy Johnson. Mentalism, comedy and visual magic with cards, books, rope, keys, shoe laces, music, fire and razor. Revealed are some of Roy's most closely guarded secret methods. Much of Roy's own patter is included for you to use, or adapt to your own style. The methods given are simple and effective, leaving you to concentrate on the "job in hand" ... entertainment!

• Foreword
• Music Maestro
• The Key
• Key Cords
• To Hell And Back
• The Library
• Again The Library
• The Card In Anything
• Hyp-Knot-Ic
• Impaled

1st edition 1995,...

Slydini's major routines take a lot of time to learn. But Slydini wanted his students to be able to go out and perform magic sooner to work on the performance and presentational aspects of their magic. To enable this he would teach his students from time to time smaller tricks which one could learn quicker but which often still incorporated one or the other of his fundamental principles of magic. This is a collection of these smaller tricks Slydini taught Dennis. They are a great gateway into the magic of Slydini because they do not require large commitments of time and effort to be mastered, yet they...

These are notes for one of Jerry's lectures. It helps if you saw the lecture as only the essential workings are provided, but the drawings and details are sufficient to make out most of the effects. References several moves taught in Andrus Deals You In without providing the specifics.

• Vanishing Pen
• Pen Under Cards
• Reversing Pen
• Pill Tube Mystery
• Rope And Handkerchie
• Twin Pipes
• Tube Steal
• Tube Load
• False Load
• Extra Ball Move
• Lap Vanish
• Fist Vanish
• Slow Motion Vanish
• Ball Vanish
• A Utility Move
• A Routine For Twin Pipes
• Geiger Counter Routine
• They Pick The Aces
• Fan Reverse
• Torn Card
• "How It’s...

Full title is: Original Creation for Magicians Hitherto Kept "Up His Sleeve". Waller was a highly creative magician.

• Publisher's Note
• Introduction
• Perverse Magic
  • "The Cantankerous Handkerchief"
  • "The Golliwog Ball"
  • "The Impish Card"
• "The Secret Tube"
  • "The Growth of Flowers"
• The Nest of Boxes
• The Rising Cards
• The Mountain of Flags
• "A Four Ace Climax"
• The "Turn Over" Force
• The "Rainbow" Force
• Full or Empty
• The Big Production
  • A Basket of Flowers
  • The Big Bowl
• "The Fourth Dimension"
• Charlie Chaplin and "Spooky Ookum"
• The Utility Fans
• The Candle That Was
• "In the...

Here's an ebook of clever and original ideas and routines for standard parlor and club effects.

Originally published as a limited edition booklet by the manufacturer of the Mysto Magic Set, the authors have contributed several excellent performance ideas that will delight your audience.

In addition, the authors have supplied instructions for creating updated fekes and gimmics to perform popular tricks, such as producing a rabbit from an empty hat or performing the Aerial Treasury effect. An excellent ebook of audience-tested magic.

Here's an example. Imagine if a magician walks up to you and asks...

Vanish small objects such as a coin, sponge ball, poker chip, card corner from your bare hand.

The construction of the gimmick requires some arts and crafts. The method produces a sound that you need to be able to mask with music or some other way. Also, you will have to watch your angles. This method works fine for a social media video or perhaps on stage but is otherwise not very practical.

1st edition 2022, video 9:49.

Also known as "Ne Plus Ultra" and "Bonus Genus", this was a favorite pocket trick at the turn of the century. Even Houdini was known to have fashioned a crude version of this out of a scrap of wood. Modern day toy companies create small dolls that make handcrafted ones a thing of the past. We located an ideal version at a local 99¢ store, it's a small figurine of a cherub playing on a flute.

EFFECT: A small doll is covered with a cloth. The cloth has a hole in the center, out of it protrudes the doll's head. The head is allowed to drop into the folds of the cloth. Immediately the cloth is shaken...

A very visual vanish of a common item: a chewing gum. You take a gum with two fingers and with a smooth movement the gum disappears into thin air.

• Easy to perform and easy to make.
• Visual and practical.
• Make the gimmick in 3 minutes.

Note: TV rights not included with purchase. Please contact Sultan Orazaly if you want to perform this on TV.

1st edition 2024, video 6:41.

The three ticks in this video are variations of effects by Don Alan, Juan Tamariz, and an old-school sucker trick that appeared in Expert Card Technique.

Don Alan had a trick called Magic Ranch in which a chosen card was found in a wooden egg. I've rearranged the presentation with a new ending, the people think that a real egg is about to be cracked open in the cupped hands of the assisting spectator. The switch of the real egg for the gimmick egg is accomplished by Slydini body mechanics and within reach of anyone willing to understand and apply the concept. I also offer an alternative ending, as well as how to make the special one-way...

Mental Magic, Close-Up, Ropes, Money, Handkerchief, Cards, Stage and TV Tricks, Novelty Magic, and Behind the Curtain (tips on presentation, business, etc.)

• Preface
• Chapter One: Mental Magic
  • In The Crystal
  • Ball-Point Prediction
  • Palm Writing
  • Torn Centre Application
  • Blindfold Vision
  • Third Sight
  • Chalk Mark Telepathy
  • Think Of An Object
  • Think Of A Man
  • Find The Pin
  • Chairback Transmission
  • Getting The Chalk
  • Colours
  • Afterthought
  • Super Date Sense
  • Stage Version
  • Impromptu Version
  • Predicting The Winner
• Chapter Two: Close-Up Conjuring
  • Flame Up
  • A Glass Vanish
  • My Glass Through...

Use your VCR as a video prediction chest!

Add amazing, audience-tested effects to your act, including French Postcards, Jokers Wild, Batter Up!, Break the Bank, Headlines of the Past, Mental Shopping, Lucifer's Lexicon, Movie-ola, Mental Lottery, and many others.

The subtle methods are broken into chapters where you'll discover the Three Outs Principle, The Multiple Outs Principle, the Index Principle, The Ultima Principle, and more. The author had previously sold this work only through Micky Hades' Seattle retail shop, which has since closed. The material in this ebook is just too good...

This booklet was inserted in volume 44 number 8 of The Sphinx. It was published as a gift to the loyal subscribers. Illustrations were done by Francis Martineau.

1st edition, 1944, Sphinx Publishing Corporation, USA; 11 pages.

3. Preface
3. Eyes Colour Blind
3. Verrall's Visible Four Aces
4. From Deception to Doll's House
4. Verrall's Chameleon Carnations
7. Verrall's "Bango!"
7. Grandfather's Nightcap
8. Verrall's Vanishing Vase
8. It Hasn't Been Done Before!
8. Decanting a Rainbow
10. Francis Martineau
11. Verrall Wass

On this download DVD are countless Ken Brooke movies showing him demonstrating and performing some of his classic routines together with many effects from Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio in London ... but best of all ...

Patrick Page has provided a remarkable and informative live sound commentary for this fabulous video compilation.

Martin Breese acquired the copyright to all of the Unique Magic Studio material some years ago. Amongst the many Unique Studio items were a number of silent movies and many of these featured the amazing magic of the amazing Ken Brooke – one of the most loved British magicians of...

[Note that the English on this video is pretty bad. However, everything is also explained visually and you should have no problem to make the gimmick and to see how everything works together.]

The effect is straight forward. Show a few tictacs on your hand and an empty tictacs box. Slam the container on your hand and make all tictacs jump into the container. Your hand is empty and the container filled with tictacs. If somebody would have counted the number of tictacs in the container is exactly the same as there were on the hand. You can handout the container with the tictacs for inspection or even as a gift.

1st edition 2015, 11 min...

A collection of practical magical effects.

• the Introduction
• The Spinning Card
• The Flower Stall
• Raps!
• The Pusillanimous Pips
• Plonk!
• "A Hard Pill To Swallow"
• A Penny Bun
• The Sympathetic Sands
• Second Sight
  • "Say It With Flowers!"
  • The Signals
  • The Code
• Serve!
• " - And Hit The Crow"
• Hop, Skip, And Jump
• A Sensational Opening Production
• Light Fetters
• A Harmless Explosion
• Filling The Baby's Bottle
• A Lightning Wrist Tie
• A Bunch Of Bananas
• Coffee For Two

Walletrix includes six amazing effects that can be done using a normal ordinary ungimmicked wallet.

"This is a very sexy method and utility device that doesn't just create miracles, instead it gives that moment of astonishment we as magicians desire" - Justin Miller

"This project is packed with brilliantly creative and practical material. Anyone watching this will be itching to test out the routines within." - Lloyd Barnes

1. Six amazing super visual effects
2. No special skill required
3. Can be done with most wallets
4. Gimmick/setup/method is super easy
5. Wallet is fully examinable...

A lively and interesting, compelling collection of little known ideas, often referred to as "betchas". Bet you a drink you can't do so and so like pushing a quarter through a dime sized hole. You may know that one but there are dozens here that are fresh and different, and will get your spectators really involved with your challenges.

Great for bars, lunch table, offices, coffee break, parties, hospitality suites, young peoples affairs, etc. Although you introduce them as an impromptu stunt, you actually have a set program in mind for best results. These amusing little gags can make you the...

This ebook covers a wide variety of stand up, close up, and stage magic from the brilliant mind of Peter Warlock. Mentalism, Cards, Silks, Rope, Ball and Cone, and more.

• Aces Low
• Touchdown
• Kolar
• Mind Out Of Time
• Twang
• Android
• Android Two
• Tinker Bell
• Zodiac
• Slalem
• Tour De Force
• Jinx
• Five Chairs
• Trivu
• Tempus
• Nick
• Endora
• 3 Times Lucky
• Oldie
• A Matter Of Note
• Prize Winner
• The Cone & Ball Routine
• Willow Pattern Mystery
• Silks & Beakers
• Sympathetic Selection
• Red & White Mystery
• Triple Restoration

128 pages; PDF 79 pages.