APRIL 2018 - Edition 45
VANI SH
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Internatonal Magic Magazine
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Paul Romhany & Joomag
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Paul Romhany
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DISNEY IS MAGIC
We (my family and I) have just returned from an amazing trip to Disney
World. There is no doubt in my mind that Disney knows how to create the
feeling of magic. I don't quite know what it is but when you see a character
such as Donald Duck you get the urge to yell out, “hey Donald”, as though
he is real. Perhaps seeing it through our sons eyes played a huge part …
but, I must admit that when we met Mickey Mouse we were in awe. The
Mickey we met at Magical Kingdom was like no other we'd seen. This one
actually spoke to us, his eyes blinked and his mouth moved. It was quite
possibly one of the very best illusions I've ever seen. When it was our turn
to meet and greet him we just stood there unable to move because my
wife and I both felt this large mouse was real.
My theory about Disney World (and the same can be said for Disneyland)
is that it makes you feel like a kid again. I am sure there are secrets to how
they do this within their parks. The one thing I noticed is they play on
all our senses; from what he hear, smell and see. It was a much needed
vacation to reenergize our batteries.
In the last edition of VANISH I did a short piece on Multiplying Bottles. In
the article I mentioned Lance Burton's version with the silks tied around
the bottles that change places. Thanks to David Seebach and Rick Swaney
they were able to give me a little more information as to where this idea
originated.
Rick wrote the following:
" A couple years after I acquired my set of Peter Diamond bottles I attended
a lecture by Patrick Page. One of the tricks he presented was a handkerchief
transposition. He exhibited a bottle with a handkerchief tied around the
neck. He removed the handkerchief, then covered the bottle with a tube.
He vanished the handkerchief and removed the tube to show that it had
returned to the bottle. The method was a duplicate handkerchief tied on a
nested bottle.
My idea was to use that method to achieve a gag I had seen in a Bugs
Bunny cartoon and incorporate it into my multiplying bottle routine. After
a few transpositions I attempt to “prove” it’s the same bottle by tying a
yellow handkerchief around it. After the next transposition, there’s the
handkerchief, but it’s red (first laugh). I ask what’s wrong and immediately
transpose it back to show the handkerchief is still red (second laugh).
According to Magicpedia, Marconick published a trick called Bottled Silks
in Marconick’s Original Magic in 1967. Maybe there’s a connection between
that and Patrick Page’s trick. I don’t have Marconick’s book so I don’t know if
his effect was related to the multiplying bottles."
Paul Romhany
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