Magic & Mentalism: page 38

This ebook contains over 100 routines, effects, ideas and essays from a wide range of top international close up performers, all of whom either lectured or performed at one of the nine Symposiums during its 16 year run.

The list of 69 contributors reads like a Who's Who of close up past and present. Here are the names to drool over....

Jon Allen, Michael Ammar, Paul Andrews, Mike Austin, John Bannon, Steve Bedwell, Stuart Bowie, Sean Carpenter, Janet Clare, Aldo Colombini, Alistair Cook, Rob Cox, Roger Crosthwaite, Roger Curzon, Lee Davis, Dusty, Nicholas Einhorn, Keith Fields, Kevin Gallagher, Dan Garrett, Paul Gordon, Roberto Giobbi, Brian Glover, Paul Hallas, Pit Hartling, Ken Hawes,...

Borrow a set of keys. Break off the tip of a key clearly showing the broken key still on the key ring. Then mend the key and return all keys in perfect condition back to the spectator.

This is a very visual quick effect to impress your audience and set the right mood for more miracles to come.

runtime: 6min 35s

Vital knowledge and an essential skill for buskers, pitchmen, or anyone who wants to gather a crowd Don Driver reveals the exact construction and presentation of how he built tips in Las Vegas for a highly successful jam auction, stopping people on the streets and holding them. This DVD has actual footage of Don working this on Hollywood Boulevard as well as the bally being done by street performer Zachery Strange.

A tip in pitchman parlance is a group of people that has stopped to look what all the fuss is about, and who is ultimately ready to be pitched to and buy products.

"The Dollar...

• The Pass Surpassed
• Chameleon Card
• Henry Hardin's Handkerchief Production
• B. H. Additional Wrinkle To Show Both Palms At Once
• Additional Wrinkle
• Super-Supreme Force
• Concluding The Effect
• Auto-Operative Shuffle
• Handkerchief Creation
• Climax Color Change
• The Wonder Pass
• The Impromptu Magician
• The Indeceptive Deception
• Burling Hull "Invisible Pass"
• A Unique Thimble "Move"
• Burling Hull Thimble Production

1st edition 1914, 26 pages; PDF 20 pages.

A triple effect with a sheet of paper. You can immediately print yourself the necessary pictures. This is the original description of the effect as sold by Supreme:

“What a fantastic pocket effect! .... What a great trick for you to use at kids' party-shows or your more intimate type dates. Nothing to carry but it's big, big, big, in effect. Based on an original effect given to us as a Supreme Exclusive; top magician, top journalist, Alan Kennaugh has come up with a brilliant idea which at once makes this into a new trick, an entertaining trick, a mystifying trick, and one which has a really...

C Through is an effect where you visually push a torn off corner of a spectator's selected card into an empty tic tac box. The spectator can check the corner to confirm that it matches their card.

1. No gimmicks
2. Visual and direct
3. Everything is examinable
4. The spectator can hold the box and can keep it after the effect
5. You can also do it with bills
6. Easy to do
7. Quick reset

1st edition 2016, length 7min 44s

This was Sam Dalal's first publication. It was written for the cabaret artist, the magician who is called on to give a "Spot Show" of about 10 to 15 minutes duration. Every item is applause tested, simple in execution, and lends itself to an amusing theme.

• In The Beginning
• The Impossible Peek Deck!
• The Sla-Test Color Gag
• Colour - Me!!!
• "Turn It Round"
• Brain Wave Bonus
• The New Whispering Queen
• Habit Bound!
• Old Wine In New Funnels
• "Pop Up" Gag
• Jackpot -- Almost
• Russian Roulette
• 'Knockout'
• Shell Craft
• In Conclusion

1st edition ~1970, 20 pages; PDF 23 pages.

California Gang Knives, Raymonde Crowe's routine for the color-changing knives, includes two new sleights. The routine includes a comedy presentation, bonus comedy lines, and ends strong when a knife magically shrinks into a miniature knife. At the finale you are automatically reset. California Gang Knives can be performed in short sleeves and jeans.

My aim in this routine was to move beyond repetitive color changes, and over-reliance on the paddle/turnover move, and to conclude the routine strongly. I also wanted to move beyond just describing black and white knives changing places, but...

From the introduction:

Here are 22 funny, irreverent, off-beat magic and mentalism effects that are sure to get you noticed.

There's magic here with cards, dice, dictionaries, a paper giraffe, a restaurant menu ... even an Egyptian Scarab. Rarely does an ebook come around that's as much fun to read as it is to perform. This is just such an ebook. Here's a peek at what's inside:

• The Pasteboard Alibi
• The Card in the Ice Cube
• The Trick Without a Name
• The Nest of Sacks
• A Deck in Bondage
• Magic by the Hour
• With a Bit of Spice
• A Toast to Magic
• With the Sense of Touch
• Metamorphosis
• The Skeleton of Jekyll and...

Turn a cap into a magic prop and have cards appear and change. For example, you can use it for a kind of 'card stabbing' routine where you spring the cards and catch one card in your cap. Or have one card visually change into another. To make the gimmicks requires some arts and crafts, but nothing too complicated and no supplies you wouldn't likely already have.

The separate effects are:

• Flick
• Stabbed
• I-tap
• Spinner

Not all gimmicks can be incorporated into the same cap and thus not all effects shown could be done with just one cap.

Deepak also explains a lovely linking effect...

A guide to the art of street magic.

Cellini, who was a student of Slydini, became the most celebrated and most accomplished street magic performer in the world. In this work, he explains the secrets of how to successfully present and perform magic. He has the ability to take old and dusty tricks and turn them into fresh and exciting performance art. On top, he reveals new tricks he developed himself.

• ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE: Where to Work, Money
• THE WORKSHOP: Props, Gimmicks, Sundries
• PASSPORT TO FREEDOM: Color, Sound, Movement-Body Positions, The Broken Circle, How to Add Comedy Lines, The Pitch ...

Please note that this video is in Vietnamese. There are some English subtitles, but for the most part you will get the instructions of how to make the gimmick and how to perform with it from the visual contents of the video.

With this gimmick you can vanish and change a range of small items.

1st edition 2016, length 31 minutes.

These are the lecture notes for a lecture Charlie Miller gave at Magic Inc. in 1967. He offers great insight into the art of magic, presentation, routining and audience management. He also teaches several great tricks.

Also included is a six page essay by Roberto Giobbi titled "Charlie Miller's Wisdom". (This essay originally appeared in two installments within my column "The Genii Session" in Genii - The Conjuror's Magazine, May and July 2005. It appears here in a slightly revised form and in agreement with Richard Kaufman and his Genii Corporation.)

Contents:

Excerpt from the introduction:

• An Introduction
• Foreword
• Crazy Aces
• Poker
• With Twenty Cards
• Evolution
• A Love Affair
• Photo Transit
• The Pierced Card
• The Stabbed...

• Predict something incredibly personal to your spectator – the location of their tattoo. Then go one step further, and divine the design!
• Cause an angel to visually melt from one half of a playing card to another in this shockingly visual application of Paul Harris's Twilight Angels.
• Imagine causing the Hot and Cold water to transpose between your bathroom taps!
• A spectator is offered a free choice from your stack of business cards, and signs the blank side. On turning it over, he finds it is the same business card that you signed earlier in this strange display of coincidence.
• Use a...

Performed by Randy Wakeman before random, live audiences . . . then explained and taught in full detail.

Over the 1950s, 1960's, and through the 1970's a brand of bold and direct close-up magic was developed in Chicago, Illinois. These effects were known for simplicity, clarity, and strength of effect, and the powerful response they elicited. Chicago magical legends Don Alan, "Heba Haba Al" Andrucci, "Senator" Clarke Crandall, Frank Everhart, Jack Murray, Johnny Paul, James Patrick Ryan, and Matt Schulien forged their reputations with these effects, and now you can too.

While these quick, direct, simple, baffling effects...

This is China's version of the Three Shell Game or the Three Card Monte Game. It is played with three sticks held between the fingers of one hand. One stick has a little string tied to it. The task for the spectator is to identify the stick with the string. As you can imagine this is a crooked game and the performer decides when he lets you win. This game was brought by Ching Ling Foo to America in 1899.

In addition to the PDF, you will be able to download 6 videos that demonstrate several ways to perform this con game as well as videos that show you the modus operandi.

1st edition...

A collection of startling and sensational mysteries ... twenty feature tricks.

• Chinese Screen Trick
• Chinese Rope Trick
• Baskets-Confetti and Doves
• Ribbon And Hat
• Cylinder-Water & Fish
• Parasol-Ball & Water
• Cup-Silk & Smoke
• Gong Silk Production
• Copper Bowl Production
• Chinese Lamp Trick
• Chinese Water Cups
• Mystery Foulard
• Here And There
• Sensational Bowl Production
• Beads Of Chen-Lee
• Chinese Chew Tobacco
• Bamboo Pole and Box
• Flower Garden Illusion
• Screen Mystery

PDF 22 pages.

Magicians rarely theme their magic around holidays, but it's something that Darius and I have always done, and this documents a selection of our Christmas-themed magic.

Christmas Cracker Prediction - Predict the joke in your Xmas Cracker, with no forces.

Frosty Card Reveal - A snow spray card prediction reveals one card, and changes to reveal a second one.

Card Through Window - A festive take on a classic.

Around the Snow Globe - A snow globe is opened and the contents changed into real snow.

Bang For Your Buck - Taking a party popper, you fire it, then replace the ribbons inside,...

Anyone who has seen a magician perform has almost certainly seen one or more of the tricks explained in this book. For these are great tricks of the magic profession, tricks that have proved perennially spectacular in performances on the stage, on television, or in private audiences.

The author explains first the basic scheme of each trick, then discusses the possibilities for variation and expansion as developed by a number of famous magicians. Each of the classic tricks included here is methodically described in detail and illustrated in line drawings; none of them involves expensive...

Of particular interest are the various ideas to how to transmit information secretly.

• INTRODUCTION
• MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS
  • The Slave Bangle
  • Camouflage
  • Two Ropes And A Ring
  • A String Variation
  • A Marked Pack
  • Three Good Tricks (Will Goldston)
• PROBLEMS WITH CARDS
  • Removing Under Difficulties
  • A Problem With Cards
  • A Card Square
  • Values
  • A Puzzling Location
  • Suitable "Key" Card
• TRANSMISSION SIGNALS
  • Hands Of The Secret Service
  • Stage Billet Reading
  • The Interpreter
  • The Roll Call
  • The Carrier
  • Intelligent Fingers
  • Reconstruction

Karrell Fox was an extremely successful magician. He was probably the first to appear at trade shows as magician and even had a touring show for Ford Motor company. His success can partly be attributed to the many characters he developed perfectly suited for different venues and occasions: 'Milky' the Clown, Prof. 'Mix-up', 'Wow' the Wizard, W. C. Fields, and 'Just Plain' Karrell.

Here you will find lots of great ideas spanning the gamut from card and mental magic to stage and platform effects. Throughout you will find many photos of Karrell Fox - a pleasant picture show of the life of a...

U.F. Grant has collected 13 tricks involving a paper clip. Paper clips are available pretty much anywhere, are common objects and therefore make ideal magic props.

1st edition 1947; original 12 pages; PDF 9 pages.