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Imagine the best magic, the best magicians, and the best producers all in one place... If you could have one set of magic DVDs, this would be it! This benchmark collection features just about all of magic’s most enduring and classic effects and routines. It's a fabulous compendium with many of the top masters in the world of magic teaching their handlings and routines for magic's classics.
Linking rings, sponge balls, metal bending, cups and balls, thumb tips, Zombie, color-changing knives, and many, many more topics are all gathered in this one terrific DVD reference set. Each volume covers a specific subject and features new, old, and sometimes rare footage by some of the top video producers in magic.
The Secrets of Thumb Tips
Learn a classic of card magic that your audience will remember forever.
The thumb tip is one of the most utilized and valuable gimmicks in magic but it also wins the title of perhaps its most badly used. However, the thumb tip, despite repeated exposures, can still create miracles when used properly and judiciously.
On this DVD, you’ll see ways to use a thumb tip that you’ve never dreamed of. Michael Ammar presents a poignant story with just a few coins that your audience will always remember. Richard Osterlind tears open a signed packet of sugar substitute and miraculously restores it while Roger Klause conjures silver coins from thin air with just a borrowed dollar bill. If you think you know the traditional vanishing handkerchief, you’re about to be badly fooled by Alexander de Cova and Paul Wilson. Jeff Sheridan offers his versions of two classic thumb tip pieces while Ted Lesley and Dan Harlan demonstrate effects suitable for a stand-up performance. Larger stage tricks like 20th Century Silks and Blendo are turned into powerful close-up effects by Fernando Keops and Steve Dacri and Al Schneider performs a quaint mystery with nothing more than a borrowed dime. Rounding out this set is Paul Diamond with a post-graduate course in thumb tip work with finesses that will vastly improve your own handling of this marvelous tool.
• Michael Ammar: 41-cent Miracle
• Richard Osterlind: Sweet and Low
• Roger Klause: The Miser's Cornucopia
• Alexander de Cova: Purse Swindle
• Ted Lesley: Coin Through Sleeves
• Al Schneider: Vanishing Dime
• Jeff Sheridan: Cigarette in the Coat
• Alexander der Cova: Blank Cheque Transpo
• Fernando Keops: Mini 20th Century
• Jeff Sheridan: Vanishing and Reappearing Water
• Paul Diamond: Thumb Tip Lecture
• Steve Dacri: Mini Blendo
• Paul Wilson: Tipless
• Dan Harlan: World's Saddest Trick
Don’t be misled by those who dismiss the thumb tip as “old school.” There are a dozen performers and 14 performances and explanations here that provide conclusive evidence that there’s still a lot of magical life left in this wonderful utility gimmick.
