Sometimes magician can produce an object by pretending the required work has been done but in fact he only does the work while audience's attention is directed away. Somewhat similar to this is loading a new object in the act of taking away that produced. A familiar repeating cigar production illustrates this perfectly.
One cigar is produced and placed in the opposite hand. But while the right is placing it in the left, the left hand is loading another, unseen, into the right. There are probably nine hundred and seventy-five thousand ways this principle of secretly loading while attention is elsewhere might be disguised, cloaked, counterfeited or otherwise camouflaged.
To attempt to give a complete list of the various ways in which this method has been utilized in the past, not to speak of the possible applications in the future, would be impossible. And if you can't think of other things to use-I mean things that haven't been used before-you're wasting your time with this book. There are at least a million objects that have never been used with it. Get a Sears, Roebuck catalogue and check the items, new items, you see.
We often hear that "the hand is quicker than the eye", this is possible for magicians, but in a way differ from what people think. The hand is never fast enough to be invisible, instead the other ways of achieving great speed is used. Another common method that magicians use to produce an object is to bring it into view with a speed so high that people cannot tell where it came from.
In general, there are three classes of mechanical pulls that may bring an object into sight from a remote hiding place. They bring it into sight with the requisite amount of speed. These are the pulled thread, the elastic pull and the spring pull. Other mechanical power applications include released counterweight, electric motor, steam engine-come under this heading, if the subject of the production is brought into position with the proper amount of speed. In addition, there is the catapult that throws the object to production location.
Usually a thread is used to pull out the object. An perfect illustration would be the appearing handkerchief effect. The handkerchief is tied by a thread that runs from the neck of a bottle to the inside and through a hole at the side to an assistant or a machine. The bottle is put on a table and the handkerchief is hidden inside a secret pocket in the table. The assistant or the machine then pulls the string at the appropriate moment extremely quickly to produce the handkerchief inside the bottle or container. - 30290
One cigar is produced and placed in the opposite hand. But while the right is placing it in the left, the left hand is loading another, unseen, into the right. There are probably nine hundred and seventy-five thousand ways this principle of secretly loading while attention is elsewhere might be disguised, cloaked, counterfeited or otherwise camouflaged.
To attempt to give a complete list of the various ways in which this method has been utilized in the past, not to speak of the possible applications in the future, would be impossible. And if you can't think of other things to use-I mean things that haven't been used before-you're wasting your time with this book. There are at least a million objects that have never been used with it. Get a Sears, Roebuck catalogue and check the items, new items, you see.
We often hear that "the hand is quicker than the eye", this is possible for magicians, but in a way differ from what people think. The hand is never fast enough to be invisible, instead the other ways of achieving great speed is used. Another common method that magicians use to produce an object is to bring it into view with a speed so high that people cannot tell where it came from.
In general, there are three classes of mechanical pulls that may bring an object into sight from a remote hiding place. They bring it into sight with the requisite amount of speed. These are the pulled thread, the elastic pull and the spring pull. Other mechanical power applications include released counterweight, electric motor, steam engine-come under this heading, if the subject of the production is brought into position with the proper amount of speed. In addition, there is the catapult that throws the object to production location.
Usually a thread is used to pull out the object. An perfect illustration would be the appearing handkerchief effect. The handkerchief is tied by a thread that runs from the neck of a bottle to the inside and through a hole at the side to an assistant or a machine. The bottle is put on a table and the handkerchief is hidden inside a secret pocket in the table. The assistant or the machine then pulls the string at the appropriate moment extremely quickly to produce the handkerchief inside the bottle or container. - 30290
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