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The Comprehensive Guide to Making Money Pitching Svengali Decks

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been made on selling the humble Svengali Deck and yet few people ever learned the inner secrets of how to pitch the deck successfully. This DVD fills that shortage.

Don Driver pitched for twenty-five years all over the country. He learned his pitch from S. David Walker, the Grand old Man of Svengali pitching who has been at it since the early 1940s. Mr. Walker learned from Mickey MacDougall, the creator of the Svengali pitch.

Explained in detail is a pitch that has been polished and...

A specially-recorded hour-long interview of Don Driver (interviewer is the late David Alexander) that gives history, insights, and advice on how to make money selling the most popular trick deck in the world. Don also tells many stories and anecdotes of how he got into magic, side shows and ultimately pitching Svengali decks.

The Svengali deck of cards is a specially prepared deck of playing cards (Poker-sized or Bridge-sized) that can be used by magicians or entertainers to perform various tricks. The deck and the tricks performed with it are assisted by its unique design and require almost no skill. It is based on a very old principle of entertaining deception and confidence game manipulation.

The cards of the deck can be flipped or riffled to create the illusion that the deck is completely ordinary. It can even be apparently mixed and shuffled. The trick involves a spectator choosing a card from the deck and...

• ... to make your scripts better.
• Tip #11 Learn the secret of how to never forget your props.
• Tip #14 Do you have the Anverdi Mental Dice/Die? Learn how to wake them up right in front of your audience without suspension.
• Some of magic's best principles explain all in one ebook: One Ahead, Equivoque, Svengali, Rough and Smooth, Dual Reality, Preshow, Gilbreath, Multiple Outs and more.
• Everyday items for magicians: Amazon and Other Sources with links to each item.
• Learn an easy way to organize all your decks. See tip #29.
• Looking for a graphic artist? See tip #31.
• Great way to organize your...

• ...Magiros Streifen-Färbemaschine
• Such die Dame!
• Super Billard Bälle
• Super Chip-Lift
• Super Fingermagnet
• Super Gimmick IV
• Super Gimmick "NEU"
• Super Gimmick
• Super Kugelröhre
• Super Okitoglas
• Super Penetration
• Der Super Punxtest
• Super Ultimate Cards To Wallet
• Super Verschwinde-Gimmick
• Surprise Karte
• Svengali (Bicycle)
• Sympathie Würfel
• Tablett des Dr. Mabuse
• Tafeln der Pharaonen
• Tanzender Spazierstock
• Tarnkappe de Luxe
• Tarnkappe
• Die Tarnkappen
• Tarot-Geheimnis
• Tea for two chinesisch
• Teddybär Parade
• Telekinese-Bügel
• Telepathie Würfel
• Telesphere Gigant
• Telesphere
• Televisions-Tablett ...

Vom Vorwort:

• Vorwort
• Rot — blau — rot
• Herz—As—Story
• Svengali-Routine
• Anhang: Hindu-Shuffle

Erstausgabe 1989, 19 Seiten; erste digitale Ausgabe 2018, 19 Seiten.

• Vorwort
• Ein kleines Kartenprogramm
  • Eröffnungstrick
  • Rot-blau-rot
  • Wild Card
  • Herz As-Story
• Besondere Kartenspiele
  • Above Suspicion (Blankospiel)
  • Ein 'besonderer' Kartentrick (gelegtes Kartenspiel 32 Blatt)
  • Perfekte Vorhersage (Blankorückenspiel)
  • Svengali Routine (Svengali Deck)
  • Karten-Telepathie (Drei Spiele mit verschiedenen Rückenmustern)
  • Die Macht der Gedanken (Rau-Glatt-Spiel und Svengali Deck)
• Trickgeräte und Trickkarten
  • Gitterkarte (Routine mit einem Blankospiel)
  • Eine unglaubliche Kartenwanderung in drei Aufzügen
  • Plexi-Gefängniskarte...

Make money at magic shows, fairs, carnivals, or simply entertain your audience with the Pitchman's Svengali Routine. Now you, too, can add extra income at your shows by demonstrating and selling Svengali Decks, using this carefully constructed routine. Built along the time-honored comedy sales pitch, as used by medicine men and carny hucksters, this routine includes full patter and presentation so not only is the audience entertained, but the spectators are also primed to buy.

In this revised and updated version, you also get wholesale sources and other valuable information to help ensure...

• Chica levita sobre tres pompas de jabón.
• Biografia: Sigfried & Roy.
• Cartas balanceadas.
• Curiosidades de catálogo: Monedas a pájaro.
• Limpiando naipes.
• Hermanos de sangre.
• Libros, videos y gente:
  • ... a pack of cards - Jack Merlin.
  • Further Education - John Archer.
• Origenes y anécdotas: Svengali deck.
• Palita del tren.

Paul Fleming wrote:

1. ... Thayer
80. magical note

83. Magical Bulletin - Volume IV, Number 12 - December, 1916 - 9 pages
83. The Burned and Restored Turban - Chicago Magic Co. - advertising
83. cover photo/article - Mr. E. W. Puhl
85. Editorial
85. A Hindu Mystery
86. An Interesting Item - Mango Trick
86. magical notes
86. News and Notes
86. A "Svengali" Effect - Frederick Furman
87. Chats on Magic - A Review of Old Books and Tricks
    • A Novel Match Trick
87. The Wandering Die & Box of Flowers - "Christianer"
87. magical notes
88. Literature
    • The Sphinx - November
    • Effective Modern Tricks - Will Goldston
    • Eagle Magician - October
    • Popular...

1. ... Sale, Wanted and Exchange Column

25. Magical Bulletin - Volume V, Number 4 - April, 1917 - 8 pages
25. The Burned and Restored Turban - Chicago Magic Co. - advertising
25. cover photo/article - Maravilla & Co.
27. Editorials
27. Pages from an Amateur Conjuror's Note Book - Frederick F. Furman
    • The Svengali Spelling Bee
    • The "Simplicity" Nest of Boxes
28. More Magic by Christianer
    • The Card and Bottle
28. Statement of Ownership
28. Conjuring Chatter - G. F. Schulte
29. News and Notes
29. A Mysterious Seance - continued
29. How I Perform the Filtering Ink Illusion - E. M. Lipka
30. Literature ...

1. ...
   • ... - Art Lyle
     • How to Win Friends Without a Dime
   • Double-Turn False Cut - Fred Braue
   • Up the Ladder - Fred Braue
99. The Ultimate Prediction - Dr. Raymond Beebe
100. Baking a Cake in a Borrowed Hat - Midnight Magic - Arthur Bull
100. Lowe's Opening - Milbourne Christopher
100. Trick Tip - Svengali Spread - F.B.
100. Dice Box Resurrection - Art Lyle
100. Patter Line - Cliff Green
101. The Lost Trick of R.W. Hull - An Encore - Dr. Raymond Beebe
     • The Hypnotic Joker
101. Patter Line - Cliff Green
102. Princess Fatima - Fred Braue
102. Allerton's $50,000 Routine - announcement
103. Roundabout with Fred Braue ...

• ... on entertaining the modern child
• Where is the Ring by Jim Breedon
• Letters. Your chance to have your say
• Competition. Your chance to win big prizes
• Cassette and other gags by Steve Jones
• Basic Card Technique: The Row Force by Phil Goldstein
• Tales from Tucker ... Stephen continues his musings
• Svengali Subtlety by Nigel Row
• Beer right on the night by Tony Richards
• The Card Challenge by Arthur Setterington
• News in and around the Studio with Geoff
• Snoops Scoops by our special correspondent
• Cigarettes from nowhere by Melvin Lehair
• Juggling Part six in this popular series
• Barrie Richardson...

• ... all the magic news that's nearly fit to print and misreported in the lay press
• Al Smith considers burning topics of the day
• Eddie Dawes saves you buying the other magazines, and tells you what they said
• Werner Miller with another cunning yet concealed stunt to fool you using of all things the Svengali deck
• Our own resident guru, mentalist, Barrie Richardson who would be canonised if he were not still with us! with yet another shattering effect
• Dr. Dawes with info, on what the squirrels are doing around the world
• Alan Ward considers the Queen of the Light
• Read why the Easter issue...

• ...
  • ... The Skull & Telephone
  • S. Edward Dexter / How to Hypnotise, Hypnotic Sleep
  • R.C. Ritson / The Literature of Conjuring
• No. 22
  • George Armstrong / Stanley Collins
  • Madame Minar / Flash Addition
  • Peter McDonald / Impromptu Productions
  • Jack Lamonte / Sucker Matchbox
  • George Armstrong / Svengali's Telephone
  • John K. Bays / Bigger Smokes
  • Maurice Hurling / The Concert Ventriloquist Two Voices, one Figure
  • S. Edward Dexter / How to Hypnotise, Awakening the Subject
  • R.C. Ritson / Chats for Cognoscenti, The Literature of Conjuring
• No. 23
  • George Armstrong / Tom and Eileen Harris ...

1. ... - Bill Bishop
   • Part VI
     • How to get the Idea - Method Three - Concentration (continued)
     • Similies in Colour
141. The Magic Letter Box - correspondence
141. The Mystic Card Frame - more on the effect from page 78
142. Book Notes
     • Mind Out of Time - Peter Warlock
     • Stuthard's Svengali Routine - Joe Stuthard
     • Principles and Deceptions - Arthur Buckley
     • The Eyes of the Gods - John P. Hamilton
     • Your Deck Your Card - Tony Kardyro
     • Fifty Tricks with a Thumb-Tip - Milbourne Christopher
     • Novel Passe Coin Routine and Climax - William Kalman
     • Mentale Mysterier - Aage Darling
     • Fantaisies Avec les des a Jouer - Treborix
     • Trucs et Ficelles du Metier - Robert Veno

145. Vol. 37, Number 220, December, 1948 [48 numbered; 14 unnumbered cover, advertising pages]
145. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
     • The Problem Solved
     • An Important Year
     • Publicity ...

Bank Note: You write a prediction on a banknote and put it on the table, or keep it in your fist. The spectator must think of something that is either a lie or a true statement. When they open the banknote, it says: "You lied" (or "You said the truth")

Svengali, and The spy who came in from the cold: Two simple but powerful tools that allow one to know if the participant is a liar or not.

Thelma and Louise: A simple example (prediction), using the final scene of the movie, to introduce the principle.

A man and a woman 1: A puzzling experiment...

• ... tocca un oggetto senza che il mentalista lo veda, il mentalista riesce comunque a scoprire chi ha toccato l'oggetto
• Bere sincronizzato
• Compari improvvisati
• Tocco psicocinetico (3 metodi) puoi toccare una persona a distanza
• Fermare battito cardiaco
• Mazzo invisibile
• Mazzo SI Stebbins
• Mazzo Svengali
• Carta carbone
• Peek wallet
• Portafoglio per mentalisti
• Metodi televisivi, preshow, compari, ipnosi
• Piegatura metalli, chiavi, cucchiai, forchette, diversi metodi
• Cold reading
• script pratico pronto all'uso
• Pseudo ipnosi
• Ipnosi,cos'è l'ipnosi, induzione ipnotica, mano incollata al tavolo,...

• ... his thoughts
• A person touches an object without the mentalist seeing it, the mentalist still can find out who has touched the object
• Synchronized drinks
• Improvised partners
• Psychokinetic touch (3 methods), you can touch a person at a distance
• Stop Heartbeat
• Invisible deck
• Si Stebbins Deck
• Svengali Deck
• Carbon paper
• Peek wallet
• wallet for mentalists
• TV methods, preshow, partners, hypnosis
• Bending metal, keys, spoons, forks, different methods
• Cold reading
• practical script ready for use
• Pseudo Hypnosis
• Hypnosis, what is hypnosis, hypnotic induction, hand glued to the table, amnesia...

• ...
  • ... Bee
  • Spell It Yourself
  • Cannel's Spelling Bee
  • Howard's Simplex Speller
  • U Spell Your Card
  • The Spelling Bee Manuscript (Containing 9 Different Methods)
  • The Spelling Trick Effect
  • Seller's Speller Idea
  • An Easy Spelling Trick
  • Gwynne's Speller
  • Quadruple Speller
• Chapter Thirteen: Luring The Svengali Deck From Its Haunts
  • The Svengali Wonder
  • The Master Forcing Pack
  • Prediction Effect with a Svengali Force Deck
  • The Cards And Dice
  • Mindreading
  • Thought Transmission
  • The Prize Winner
  • The Mirage Principle
  • The Eye Popper
  • Mental Control
  • Say Stop
  • Mirage Cards
  • Mind Reading
  • The Mystery...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Trick - Steve Dusheck & Jim Hill
     • Skippy - Supreme
     • Improved Six Card Sensation - Werry & Supreme
     • The Ultimate Faulty Follower - Ken de Courcy
     • Tel-A-Color Pins - Stan Lobenstern
     • Flying Kisses - Stan Lobenstern
     • The Robot - Stan Lobenstern
17. cartoon - The Great Svengali - Ed Harris
18. Invitation to Mystery, 3rd Series - Stewart James
    • The Regal Rovers
20. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Bottom Deal Demonstration
21. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
23. The Aldini Connection
    • Number-ology
24. Down Computer - Phil Goldstein
1. four-page advertising insert
27. Forum - Bruce Posgate
30. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond ...

1. ... - Volume 32, Number 3 - March 1992 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Mike Rogers
5. Contents
6. Counter Intelligence - reviews
   • Abracadabra - periodical
   • Brain Scams - Denny Laub
   • Con-Quests - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
   • Kard Encounter - Kanko
   • The Christian Conjurer - periodical
   • The Baseball Card Svengali Deck - Chazpro
   • PK Magic - Chazpro
   • Lie Detector - Nick Trost
   • Rouge-et-Nior - Nick Trost
   • High Card Poker - Nick Trost
   • Club 71 - periodical
   • The Leveridge Silk Vanisher - Mark Leveridge
   • The Tommy Wonder Close Up Symposium Lecture - videotape & lecture notes
   • Spider Network...