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Moves, routines, and stories around the Svengali deck.

"Okay, I'm impressed!!! Your book on The Long and the Short of It is wonderful. I'm still working on a few of the moves that I never dreamed were possible with a Svengali Deck. Excellent Routine!!! You've definitely put in the time and have the expertise with this trick to be called a Master. You get 2 big thumbs way up for your book." - Doug Howe

"Mark Lewis has spent a considerable amount of time pitching Svengali decks. He has written a useful and succinct manuscript on the subject. There is no padding. The routine Mark explains...

• 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...

This ebook features 28 of Mel's mentalism ideas, each of which is commercial and entertaining.

It also has an interesting essay on getting the basics right as well as three further pages of great one-liners to use in your act. Mel's methods are practical and uncomplicated - he has a real gift for getting directly to the nub of what is needed to created any desired effect - and so there will be many ideas that you will soon be including in your repertoire.

• Introduction
• Svengali Postcards
• Any Time Impromptu Book Test
• My Drink Prediction
• Blackout Gag
• Minor Miracle with M&Ms
• The Magic...

This is a multi-use rugged manual corner rounder that produces round corners in three sizes:

• 3 mm (1/8")
• 5 mm (3/16")
• 8 mm (5/16")

The 5 mm rounding is great for corner shorts....

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...

This recording gives all the secrets of grafting or pitching. Walt reveals the secrets that enabled him to earn a handsome living pitching such items as Svengali decks, the coin and glass, three card trick, and other tricks of the grafter's trade. You will find everything from the grafter's own language and terminology, to the pitches, and how to make the products.

Walt Lees is a born pitchman. His voice draws you in. It plays with your mind, you are getting interested, intrigued, fascinated, excited, until you can't hold it anymore - you must have this trick - you buy it, and the pitchman...

• ...The Magic Coin Box
• A few Items of Patter

• Number Number 14 - undated with 16 unnumbered pages
• The Editor's Chat
• Meet these Aces of Tomorrow [members]
• Miracle Milk Vanish
• Member's Page
• A Fine Impromptu Cigarette Vanish
• Our Advice to You - Your Closing Trick
• How to make a Colour-Change Handkerchief
• The Svengali Pack of Cards
  • One. A Prediction Trick
  • Two. With Assistant
  • Three. Spectators Choice
• A Good Idea when Entertaining Children

• Number Number 15 - undated with 16 unnumbered pages
• Editor's Chat
• A New Routine for the Chinese Vase Trick described in "Trixy" no. 5
• Patter Page
• The Rabbit Predicts: You will like this Good Card Stunt
• Meet these Aces of Tomorrow [members]
• Member's Page
  • Mathemagic
  • Triple Envelopes
  • Blotto
• The Shower of Cigarettes
• Some Useful Ideas
• The Shower of Cigarettes - The Presentation
• Another Good...

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   • Houdini Card - Snyder
24. More New Tricks and Reviews
    • Patriotic Release
    • Two Way Nu Idea Forcing Deck - Snyder
    • Rolling a Cigarette by Magic - Brema

25. The Bat - Number Five Extra - n.d. - 4 pages
25. Impromptu Card Routines
27. Card Tricks - Special Decks
    • Mene-Tekel Pack
    • Svengali Deck
    • Stripper Deck
    • Brain Wave Deck
    • Out Of This World
    • St. Leon Deck
    • Nu-Idea Deck
    • 400 Tricks You Can Do - Howard Thurston
    • Secrets of Magic and card Tricks - Blackstone
    • Deucy
    • Magic Card System
    • Thirty-Two Impromptu Card Tricks
    • Stacks and Stacks of Cards - Val...

1. ... and appreciated from a distance.
63. CHAPTER SIX. -- APPLICATION OF THE TENKAI PALM.
    The clever magician, Tenkai, has evolved a unique method for palming a card. By employing this method of palming, Dai Vernon has originated two new sleights. One is a startling colour-change which he has called "SVENGALI" because the card seems to change through an hypnotic gesture, and the other is a subtle method for secretly exchanging one card for another. By utilizing the latter sleight, he has built a routine, the basic effect of which is the transposition of two cards. Only two cards are seen the whole...

• ...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 ...

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: History: The Name Game
• Chapter 2: The Concept of Duplicate Pairs
• Chapter 3: Short / Long vs. Long / Short Configuration
• Chapter 4: Handlings for the Svengali Hybrid
• Chapter 5: Multiple Card Selections
• Chapter 6: The Blue / Red Set-up
• Chapter 7: Rough & Ready
• Chapter 8: Non-Gaffed Arrangements
• Chapter 9: Variations on the Theme – Jazz Deck
• Chapter 10: Marked & One-Way
• Chapter 11: Self-Contained Card Delivery System
• Chapter 12: The Pseudo-Copy...

Twenty-five pages of previously unpublished information on successful pitching – tips, ideas, and insights from highly experienced pitchmen. What to wear, details on the joint, and more. A valuable addition to the Don Driver Svengali DVD on pitching the Svengali and the Don Driver Interview.

1st edition 2009, PDF 25 pages.

• ... a complete presentation.
• The Rigid Yo-Yo: a crazy idea that works. An outsize Yo-Yo which behaves in an abnormal way
• The Wine, the Water, and a Character: The Chris Van Bern Wine & Water, plus the Billy McComb version
• Again Sawing in Half ... Lengthwise: an old trick re-vamped
• The Reverse Cut Svengali Pack An Introduction: an accident leads to a novel comedy routine
• Chop Cups for All: an impromptu version of a classic effect using a crumpled bill and a wrapped tumbler
• We Go Mental: practical methods for the Dictionary or Telephone Directory Test
• An Off-Beat Rabbit Arrival: a bunny appears...

Muchas páginas de información inédita sobre el éxito de los lanzamientos: consejos, ideas y opiniones de lanzadores muy experimentados. Qué hay que llevar, detalles sobre la articulación y mucho más. Un valioso complemento del Don Driver Svengali DVD sobre el lanzamiento del Svengali y la Don Driver Interview.

1ª edición 2010, PDF 32 páginas.

• ... 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...

• ...
  • ... 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 ...

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...

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117. Cover - Christmas Edition
121. Odd Magical Facts - Frank Fewins
121. At the Parent Assembly Reception for Mrs. Houdini
121. A Letter to Santa - Bill Larsen
121. Merlini Mentor [Clayton Rawson] Recuperates
122. Genii Speaks - editorial comments
123. Carlyle's Evolution of a Rabbit in a Hat - Carlyle
124. Slayton Finds Svengali [U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office)
124. Birth of a Trick - Walt Kaeber
124. Cards Together - from the notes of Caryl S. Fleming
125. The Hindu Liquid Trick - Jack Gwynne, Jim Conley, Frank Herman, Fred and Helen Rickard & the Editors
126. Trapping the Spy - Julian J. Proskauer
127. The Tibetian Priest's Prayer Chain - Caryl S. Fleming
127. New Zens Trick Free!
127. Excuse Us...

1. ... B. Bobo
370. I've a Code in My Head - Gerald Kosky
371. Smart Stuff - George "Mandroop" McAthy
371. Readers Digest Discovery - James A. Lucier
372. Magic in New England - Vynn Boyar
373. Color Riddle - Glenn G. Gravatt
373. The Card in the Balloon - Irving Joslyn
374. Paper and Ink - Dariel Fitzkee
     • The Pitchman's Svengali Routine - Eddie St. John
     • Street Fakir Act - Tommy Windsor
     • Whims--Wiles--Wizardry - The Wizard Watson
     • Dope Sheet No. 10
     • The Linking Ring, June
     • The Sphinx, May
     • The Conjurors' Magazine, May
     • Tops, June
     • Hugard's Magic Monthly, May
     • Phoenix Nos. 125-127
     • The Bat, June
     • Pentagram, April
     • The Modern Magi, May
375. Magigals - Geraldine Larsen
     • I.B.M. Convention ...

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   • Penny Ante
333. Results of the Genii-Orben Poll - Robert Orben
     • Article Two
335. P.C.A.M. Convention News - William W. Larsen
336. P.C.A.M. Convention Snapshots
339. Paper and Ink - Dariel Fitzkee
     • Pentagram, February, March & April issues
     • Trilby Deck - Joe Stuthard
     • Stuthard's Svengali Subtleties - Joe Stuthard
     • magazine test - Milbourne Christopher
     • Card Tricks Without Skill - Paul Clive
     • Stars of Magic, Series 5
       • No. 1: Dai Vernon's Impromptu Cups And Balls
       • No. 2: Dai Vernon's Ambitious Card
       • No. 3: Dai Vernon's Mental Card Miracle
     • Over the Coffee Cups - Martin Gardner
     • Paul Fleming Book Reviews Nos. 142-144
     • Phoenix Nos. 176-177
     • Tops, June
340. Gerald Kosky - biographical sketch
340. Nineteen Forty-Nine T.A.O.M. Conclave
341. Holden Hospitalized
341. Video Magic - The...

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   • Griff on Cards - Tony Griffith
   • Publicity Tips for Amateurs and Professionals on the Way Up in Show Business - or The Do-It-Your-Self Show Biz Flack - Fred A. Woodress
   • The Magnet scheduled to reappear
   • 75 Tricks with a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson
   • Psycho-Gizmo, Vol. 3 (Nos. 25-36)
   • Backstage with Magigals, February & March issues
   • The Silent Messenger, March
   • Barney, March
   • La Wain's House of Magic list sheet
   • Supplement to the M.C.A.
344. M.D.A. Forward March - Ed Dart, Publicity Chairman, M.D.A.
345. Twenty-Five Years Ago In Genii - Geraldine Larsen Baker
346. Magician's Guild of America, Inc. - Georgia Kondos

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   • ... Sticks - Edwards' The Magic Shop
   • special cards - Joseph Roseberger
   • Sponge Balls - Magic Center
   • Roydon's Magic Wand - Roydon's Magic co.
172. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
     • My Favorite Card Tricks - Harry Lorayne
     • Joe Stuthard's "Famous" Svengali Trick Pack of Cards
     • A La Zombie - Ian Adair
     • Tips Galore - Aavelle [sic] and Andree
     • Thanks for the Help - Ken de Courcy
     • Sorcar TW'sGM
     • New Jinx, September
     • Backstage With Magigals, October
     • Profile, August
     • Cigam, July
     • La Wain's Big List No. 88
     • Edgar Heyl's Catalogue No. 76
     • Silent Messenger,...

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   • Comedy Letter (24 times a year) - Robert Orben
   • Current Comedy (24 times a year) - Robert Orben
   • Comedy Fillers (12 times a year) - Robert Orben
   • Erwin Linking Ring Routine - Walter B. Gibson
   • E.S.D. (Extra Sensory Deception) - Bud Morris
   • I Am Curious - Magic! - Bud Morris
   • The Real Svengali Pitch - Tommy Windsor
   • The Balloon Pitch - Tommy Windsor
   • Safety Chalk Chalks - Tom McCormick
   • Advanced Techniques in Stage Hypnosis - Nelson Chandler
   • The Encyclopedia of One-Liner Comedy - Robert Orben
   • The Bottom Collectors - Father Cyprian
   • The Mendoza Cups and Balls Routine...