Magic & Mentalism: page 31

This is not a lecture - it is a clinic.

This is one of the first magic videos Martin Breese released. It was produced by Duncan Trillo and features Bobby Bernard teaching a number of great close-up moves and effects. Compared to today's slick videos this is a minimalistic low budget production. Occasionally you can even hear cars and traffic noises in the background. But what it lacks in slickness it has in spades in terms of teaching value for the magician. Bobby Bernard was a legendary magician and as this video demonstrates also a great teacher. I could watch him all day.

• Introduction by Bobby Bernard ...

A most practical and visual restoration. This is a visual trick that will leave your spectators totally speechless. Gum Pack looks like real magic. Best of all, the gimmick is always ready to go at a moment's notice.

• good angles
• easy to make
• easy to perform

1st edition 2021, video 8 min.

Continuing with even more pro-quality close-up and platform effects, here's a worthy second volume of Berland's exclusive magic. Long out of print, this collection includes several miracles that Berland sold separately through magic dealers the world over.

Partial contents:

• A Blockbuster Opening - A very colorful and surprising "Opening Trick" that can be performed under any conditions.
• Routine for the Coin Through Borrowed Handkerchief - A handkerchief is apparently cut and restored. Also included is a variation of the trick in which a leaking fountain pen adds a hilarious comedy situation. ...

From the preface:

• PREFACE TO NEW EDITION
• INTRODUCTION
  • The Wizard's Table
  • The Wizard's Dress
• THE LATEST SLEIGHTS
  • The Latest Methods employed in the Money Trick, explaining the Improved System of Palming, the Bamboo Stick, and other New Inventions.
  • A Dozen Half-Crowns Produced...

From the foreword:

• Foreword
• A Production Box
• Coin On Knife Or Sword
• From Match To Match
• "Give Me A Light, Please"
• The Haunted Chair
• A Magnetic Pencil
• The Floating Paper
• Spirit Rapping
• The "Finder" Pencil
• The Cork Returns
• A New Changing Or Producing Canister
• Calendar Book Test
• Novel Book Test
• A Flower Growth
• Liquid Transposition
• The Ghost Taps
• "Mystify Yourself!" Ribbon And...

• Through The Eye Of A Needle
• Repeat Torn Paper
• The Restored Spill
• Sex Detection
• Number Prediction
• Dictionary Test
• A Sliding Card Frame
• The Rising Cards
• A Card Flourish
• A Colour Force
• A Different "Pick-It-Out" Trick
• Burnt And Restored
• Blendo
• Word Magic
• Four Colour Change Pencil
• Copper To Silver
• Hand To Hand
• Coin From Smoke
• A Deceptive Coin Pass
• Passe Passe Coins
• The Separated Coins
• Penetration
• Coins And Papers
• Rising And Revolving Candle

From the preface:

• The Flying Coins
• Ball Production For Club Workers
• Thimble Production
• Choice Restored
• The Web Handkerchief Production
• Black Art Milk Vanish
• A "Stag" Party Pack
• Tele - Refreshment Bar
• The Hoop Un-Looped
• The Surp-Rising Cigarette
• Which End?
• Finding A Card At Any Number
• The Girl Behind The Door
• Silk Sympathy
• Bar And Chains Escape
• Sleight For Gloved Workers
• The T.S. Sack Escape
• Date Plus Your Age
• Lay-Out Speller
• A Mental Tip
• Entertaining With Words
  • (1) Marriage And Divorce
  • (2) Lazy Bones
  • (3) Backwards And Forwards
• Effective Four Ace Trick
• Leap Year Card Trick

• The Spirit Guide
• A Paddle Routine
• The Impromptu Rising Card
• The Elongated Cigarette
• New Rising Cards
• Flip Flap
• The Tell Tale Scytale
• The Ribbon Pyramid
• Two Silks Vanish
• Off And On Again
• Change Over Cards
• The Jumping Ring
• The T.S. Find The Lady
• Winged Cigarettes
• On Again - Off Again
• Balls And Pillar
• An Old Trick Simplified
• The Winner
• It's Just Chance
• The Name On The Slate
• Living And Dead

Here are ten fun-to-perform mysteries from arguably the best magical artist and instructor on the planet. Easy enough for the beginner, the varied routines will entertain any audience, regardless of the performer's skill level. Despite the title, you'll find yourself using one or more of these stunts wherever people gather: at the dinner table, at your favorite watering hole, at parties, or at get-togethers with friends and family. Each effect is painstakingly illustrated in Doc Tarbell's famous style, making them fun and easy to learn and perform.

Originally published in 1930, after the...

In this publication Tom Sellers introduced the world of magic with what became a classic effect. It is mostly known under the title "Just Chance" or "Bank Night".

• Foreword
• The Encyclopaedia Test
• Obtaining Information
• New Method Sum Trick
• A Coin Date Mystery
• A Table Trap Idea
• "It's Only Chance"
• Diminishing Matches
• A Tube And Ball Mystery
• Aces And Kings Transposition
• Knots And A Ring
• The Sympathetic Matches
• Unique Production Box
• A Coin Sleight
• A Bran To Rabbit Box
• The Magnetic Dish Of Water
• A Neat String Tangle
• Another Coin Sleight
• Rope And Rod
• A New Slate Idea
• Rope, Rings...

You will receive four effects:

Flick

Show an empty bottle and a coin. Visually toss the coin in to the bottle and the coin will melt through it. The bottle is then handed to the spectator for an inspection and to keep. Spectator cannot find any holes or gimmicks. Also, you can do this effect with a bottle full of water or any drink. Upon learning the secret, you will immediately want to rush out and perform it.

Scam

Attention! The creator takes no responsibility for the actions of the owners of this effect. This video was released with the goal of surprising and entertaining people....

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• A New Cigarette Sleight
• The "Pass" Cigarette Sleight
• The Strong Cigarette
• Pin Divination
• The Novelty Cigarette Exchange
• "Duplex" On The Top Card
• A Mysterious Card Change
• Bow Balls
• Handkerchief Production From An Empty Glass
• New Magnetic Pencil
• A New Idea For The "Living And Dead" Effect
• Bending A Glass Rod
• An Amazing Dictionary Feat
• Touch Counters
• A Pretty Card Turnover
• A Colour Change Handkerchief...

• Preface
• Spook Pencils
• The Loop And The Ring
• Novel Silk Vanish
• Handkerchief Production From Bare Hands
• Double Date
• Novel Vanishing Glass
• The Revolving Match-Box
• The Marked Cigarette
• Spirit Message Improvement
• The Patriotic Discs
• Handkerchiefs And Lemons
• Production Bowl
• Turn Up
• Push. A Novel Card Trick
• Revolvo
• Tips
• A Speller Idea
• Reading The Cards Behind The Back
• Reading The Cards
• Swing
• Cut
• The U Win Card Trick
• Card And Number
• The Climax Card Effect
• The Seller's Coin Holder
• A Ball Dropper Idea
• A Cigarette Dropper
• Colour Change Through Fist Fake

Imagine that an airline has lost your luggage, your props, and even your wallet ... yet you have a theater show to give in just a few days. What would you do?

This informative ebook explains how you can enter any strange city, cold turkey, without a cent in your pocket, without a bit of magical equipment to your name, and rent a large auditorium, put out publicity and advertising, pay your hotel and living expenses and prepare a sensational, full-evening magic show that will send your audience away happy and satisfied, and fill your pocket with cash.

Nothing is left to chance. The entire...

BEBEL: "Ambition Colorè"
One of the greatest in the world of card magic. The next "Guest of Honor" edition 2013 symposium presents its own unique effect. One of his beautiful versions of the ambitious card, which in this case becomes a routine that is very original and has a surprise ending. Needless to say that everything is executed with his masterful touch that made him popular in the magic universe. The detailed explanation is another show within the show, with a lot of details and variations on the theme.

HENRY EVANS: "Three Predictions"
Another beautiful and inexplicable effect with...

FRANCIS TABARY: "Rope Routine"
A beautiful routine, taken from his live act presented at the Symposium. Tabary amazes you with his original style, true magic from someone who is worldwide considered the most famous ropes magician of all time. In this routine explained in detail during his lecture at the symposium, Tabary gives you new moves and magic effects never been published before. Standing ovation at the end of his live performance at the symposium.

HENRY EVANS: "Total control"
An amazing routine with cards: the 4 aces are lost in a shuffled deck by two spectators. The deck is put...

• Card And Bathing Belle
• Paper Bag And Ball Of Wool
• The Productive Carton
• Discs And Wires
• The Giant Bead Trick
• Magically Making A Cake
• A Shot From A Magazine
• The In Between Block
• Smoke Writing
• Block Release
• An Invisible Pass
• A Telepathic Experiment
• Handkerchief Vanish
• Confetti Cups
• Novel Production Tubes
• Triple Tube Tumbler Vanish
• Coin In A Glass
• Find The Lady
• New Magnetic Wand
• Dial And Aces

From the preface:

• Preface
• Magnetised Cards
• Blue Sympathy
• Dissolving Knots
• Cups And Balls Notion
• Parasol Exchange Tube
• The Egg Bag Again
• Diminishing Coins
• Double Fan For Fan Workers
• The "T.S." Knife
• The Match Jumper
• The Quickie Handkerchief Tube
• Postal Order Restoration
• Note In Beer...

Tear off the end of a straw and visually reattach it. Tested on hundreds of spectators. Gimmick fits easily into your pocket. Learn two methods for restoring straw. Before and after the show, you can hand it out for verification.

1st edition 2020, length 6 min.

On November 2012 the first European Close-up Magic Symposium brought 20 magicians from all over the world to Milan for 2 days of non-stop close-up magic, with lectures and performances, private sessions and gala shows. The routines in this issue selects among the best routines. Expect some knuckle busters as most of the contributors in this issue are some of the best names in the close-up magic. All routines are complete with performance and explanation.

DANI DAORTIZ: "Forcing card"
One of the best cardicians of our time shows us and explains a beautiful routine with detailed explanation teaching every...

• An Opening Effect
• Predetermined Thought
• A Different Die-Box
• Organ Pipe Flower Growth
• Stretching A Rope
• Stretching A Rope
• Ring And Loop
• Die And Rope
• Unique Cut Rope
• Practical Living And Dead Test
• Thimble Through Hat
• Simple Cigarette Catching
• Ropes And Ring
• Duplex Fish-Bowl Production
• A Sum Prediction
• A Production Box Idea
• A Broken Match
• The T.S. Production Box
• Glass Penetration
• A Magazine Test

• Foreword
• The Disjointed Finger
• Ashes Of The Sun
• Block And Ribbon Penetration
• More Beads On A String
• Burnt And Restored
• Tape Through The Wrist
• Sympathetic Light
• A Ring Release
• A New Thumb Tie
• Coin And Handkerchief
• Cut And Restored Rope
• Easy Diminishing Cards
• Impromptu Card Rising
• Two Person Card Code
• The Penetrative Coins
• Novel Re-Appearing Coin
• Silent Change-Over For Several Coins
• Ace-King Passe Passe
• The "T.S." Glass Penetration
• A Good-Night Cigar

1st edition 1943, 20 pages; PDF 19 pages.

There are eight excellent effects in this updated ebook - plus a few variations - that you and your audiences will enjoy. Best of all, most can be made from materials found at discount and dollar stores. For example, Visible Silk Flight is a brilliant routine with a toy pop gun rifle and a colorful silk handkerchief that you can make up yourself. Just as good as a $150 dealer item. Or how about Lantern of the Air, a beautiful floating effect with a candle-lit Chinese paper lantern? You get two methods explained: one using an assistant and a second one for the one-person show. Or if it's comedy...