MM03-01
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From Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin’s performance
using a standard deck of playing cards and fanning to
produce the illusion of diminishing (1868), to various
sleight of hand versions using different sizes of cards
by Charles Bertram and David Devant, to the first
mechanical version by Martin Chapender, and improved
versions by Ed Massey and Steve Duschek, I humbly add my
own version which starts with a jumbo pack of cards
(2010). Contains templates for printing your own cards
and assembling Ed Massey's version and my own Jumbo
version.
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MM03-02
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There are two main types of “Cards Across.”
One form is “Cards to Pocket” in which some
cards disappear from your hand, apparently skitter up
your sleeve, across your body, and end up in your pocket,
or some variation on that theme. The other is usually in
the form of cards in two sealed envelopes or boxes, in
which cards disappear from one and end up in the other.
This e-Book studies methods used in the past and comes up
with some new variations for the present.
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MM03-03
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It goes by the name Traveling Bricks, Egyptian
Bricks, Baffling Blocks, Conradi Magic Cubes, Cube á
Libre, and my own Wizard's Playful Blocks. It began in
the early 1900's and continues to mystify to this day.
Follow the effect from its beginnings to the present day
as each improvement and variation added one more
dimension to the mystery.
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MM03-04
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Based on The Spirit Light of Lucifer,
combined with the Spook Room, both items
manufactured and sold by Floyd Thayer in the 1940s, this
new version, touched by a Wizard, uses no batteries, no
threads, no sorcery. A genuine clear glass 100 watt light
bulb lights up with a full 100 watts of power (no weak
battery light). It blinks on and off to answer questions,
even while held by a spectator. Then the spirit moves
it... lifting it into the air and using it to answer more
questions by applying its mysterious light to a jumbo
translucent Ouija board. Finally, the medium (that's
YOU!) tries to extinguish the light by covering it with a
cloth while it is still floating. Suddenly the cloth
vanishes and is found INSIDE the light bulb just as it
lands back in its socket.
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MM03-05
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If you like clever little wooden props you can build
yourself, you'll enjoy building my modern version of this
Jamison Production Box invented by a well-known
amateur magician, R.M. Jamison. This particular
Production Box, invented around 1926, never made it into
the Rice Encyclopedia of Silk Magic and managed
to the avoid attention of magic dealers in favor of its
more popular cousin, the Wonder Box.
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MM03-06
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This is based on one of U.F. Grant's Victory
Carton Illusions, combined with Cyril Yettmah's Shadow
Box Illusion, to make a very mysterious shadow
appearance from a cardboard carton that is assembled and
unfolded in front of the audience. A variation called
"The Genii From The Lamp," is included as a
bonus.
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