I am a member of the Magic Circle of London. I met Paul Daniels 10 years ago at the Magic Circle Centenary. I can tell you with absolute certainty exactly where the gold balls come from. They come from China. How they get under the cups? Hell if I know!
As far as I'm concerned....it doesn't matter how the tricks are performed.....the man was, above all else, a top notch entertainer.....a legend was lost when he passed last March...
VERY clever introduction where it makes you think you're seeing him moving the balls and it turns out they're still under the cups the whole time. Very clever since I actually was watching his hands rather than the balls like he told everyone to, thinking I could catch him out.
www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/paul-daniels-dies-of-brain-tumour-aged-77-1-7801922 Debbie may have lost a loving husband his sons a father but his memory will live on in the thoughts of those he met and those he encouraged to perform a skill that entertains all nationalities a great and sad loss may he rest in peace
Even though I saw all the classic moves. I am fooled on how he got the gold balls in the cups. He was a master magician as the angles of some the moves took years to get right. RIP Paul
It is very simple, just watch Paul's hand placement at 3:50 - where he uses his right hand (to us it is on the left of the screen) and the little press releases the golden balls which are built into the table. Not too hard to figure out.
@Kragatar: You're right on the video edit. For those who aren't convinced, take a look at the table cloth grids. The cups jump to the 4th grid at 3:52, and moves to the 2nd grid at 3:55. There are a few times where the 'chopping'/loading was very obvious too: 1:57, where he is chopping the left most cup, 2:22 when he is chopping the rightmost, and 2:44 when he is loading the left cup, 3:02 middle cup, 3:16 right cup.
No chop moves anywhere my friend - except possibly the gold balls - (sponge and gold loaded at same time with the sponges compressed - gold chopped to stay in cup when he lifts to reveal the colored - but I am beginning to doubt that... still suspect the table... otherwise all of his moves were steals and dropping a ball from his hand as he lifted a cup.
You’re right about the gold ball placement courtesy of the edit-the cups do indeed move when the scene cuts. Shame to put that in because the rest of the routine was very capable sleight of hand but the gold balls spoilt it.
You can see him putting the coloured balls in, shame it was camera trickery for the gold ball, the cups move at 3.53 form the back to the front of the table!
camera trick! you can see, when he loads the first 2nd and 3rd big ball, you can see the gold ones, in the bag of the cup, for a split of a second when he puts down tha cups after loading the big balls :D
***** Studying it closer, I see where the camera trick is... they cut to the close-up shot at 3:52 where he's setting the big balls on top of the cups... then when they cut back to the wide shot at 3:55, the cups are significantly closer to the front of the table. They must have edited out whatever move he did to load the gold balls.
Kragatar well, I didn' see that the balls were closer to the edge after the cut.. I still don't believe that he did it this way. I still believe that when he loaded the big coloros, he loaded the gold ones too, in the back of the cups, and then just camera alignment to hide it from view.
***** Personally I have always believed that it is the table that is gimmicked. Just before he raises the cups for the final loads, he pushes on the wand that lies in front of him and that action activates a mechanism so that the golden balls appear from under the table.You cannot look under the table because of the cloth, that must have a reason.
brotherbor My guess is that he actually handled the cups a bit more after placing the big balls on top of them, and that's when he loaded the gold balls. But that bit was edited out, perhaps because the cameras caught too much and they didn't want to ruin the trick.
I met Paul Daniels at one of his last showsand I got his autograph and debbies and a picture and during the show my dad was picked to be a volunteer he did the trick where my dad couldn’t get off a chair and later he ripped a card up and gave half to my dad and half to another dude. Istill have it
If you think about it, Paul might be deliberately giving his game away at the start. He duped us with camera angles and cuts but he could also fool us with close-up 'Bunco' magic every time. In Paul's autobiography he mentions finally mastering this trick, which pleased him immensely and his skills made him quite well off. He'd obviously developed this old routine over the years.
Cups and balls done well is a classic magician’s routine. Paul’s is great. I can follow the sleight of hand for the ping-pong balls. I can see what he does with the gold balls. It’s the coloured balls I can’t work out! 🤪🤪
I think he gets a laugh because he quite deliberately makes it look like he has stolen the ball from under the first cup and placed it in his left hand.
Paul always explained tricks to you, of course not revealing the secrets, but he guided you along step by step, something other magicians don't do. Many just come on and do their tricks. He was like a teacher. It looks like this clip is from near the end of the run of his Magic Show on BBC One. By 1994/95 times were changing, and sadly Paul would be off the channel by the end of 1995.
I just know that pretty much every person who is commenting and from the Paul Daniels Era, you owned a Paul Daniels magic set and begged your parents for one for Christmas
I watched this and three quarters of the way through I thought hmmm this isn't one of his best... until he got to the larger balls, and then I was very impressed!
It is very simple, just watch Paul's hand placement at 3:50 - where he uses his right hand (to us it is on the left of the screen) and the little press releases the golden balls which are built into the table. Not too hard to figure out.
+Learning It Quietly From 1:34 - 1:45 he's making it look as though he's picking balls up and passing them between his hands so the audience is thinking "Ah, I see what you're doing, you're not catching me out". Then he makes it really obvious that he hasn't actually picked them up. At 1:53 he shows his hands to say "Haha, I haven't even picked them up you daft commoners" Setting the scene for the real sleight of hand that follows shortly after
+Thegameshowcase Explain them for those of us who are not as clever as you please? I can see how he did the one where the cups appear to pass through each other, he just drops one, catches it and lets the lower one drop. That's sleight of hand.
+Clive Bindley Okey, you probably wasn't expecting me to do this but here it is. On the first trick he obviously puts the stick behind the cup. On the first ball trick he takes a ball from the first cup when he shows that the balls are there. If you pause at 1:58 just before the other camera angle comes on you can see the ball in his hand. He then puts the ball in the other cup. Easy trick. Then he just repeats the same thing as you can see on the camera angle at about 2:20. On the next trick you can see that when he takes the ball from the top of the cup he very gently tilts the cup so he can put a ball there. Then he does the moving thing and shows that he moved the ball. Repeat two more times. Also a very easy trick. I can't explain how he got the big balls there though. Probably hiding inside or behind the cups. But yeah otherwise it's very simple.
+Thegameshowcase I think the answer to where the bigger balls came from is something to do with the table..you can see it's not an ordinary table it consists of squares.
@@CB-xr1eg he pushes a button behind the wand and the cups are placed exactly over the middle of the square, suggesting a mechanism that elevated the gold balls through a hole, black obviously which isn't visable to the naked eye, Paul is positioning the cups with some attention to how exact they are, how the mechanism works is another thing comlpetely.
At exactly 3:09 you can see where he places the yellow big ball into the cup. He places a big ball into the cup each time he takes the second ball out from under, notice how he brings the cup to his pocket and not his hand to the cup. He reapeats this for each cup and voila big balls under the cup.
When he did his second check of the balls, you can see he lingers on the first cup while touching it for a really long time. He rolls the ball up his sleeve. When he checks the middle ball, as he puts the cup back down, he rolls the ball into the cup. Now the cups are 0-2-1 as he shows. Next, as he checks the 3rd ball again, he pulls it into his sleeve. The cups are now 0-2-0. When he goes to reveal the middle cup again, he actually lets the ball roll from his sleeve which is very obvious. For the next part of the trick with the balls going from the pocket to under the cup, every time he goes to grab the ball from the top of the cup, he does some dubious looking covering of the cup while very obviously tilting the cup up noticeably, placing the ball immediately underneath. He actually has a 4th ball in his sleeve that he pulls out now and that is the ball you actually see him toss around. That is the 2nd and 3rd tricks explained. The first trick of dropping the cups through each other I don't know how to explain even though it is probably the easiest (I have 0 background in magic and only saw his blatant hand movements). Again, I don't know magic, but I would guess that those big colorful and gold balls are some time of foam and were compacted into the top of the cups from the start and that he release a catch to let the balls fall one at a time out of the cup. Not sure why this trick was blown up here as I only watched this video once and could already explain most of it with no background knowledge.
+Nools McSpanner He died of brain cancer this week which is why these clips have risen in popularity, he was a well known British magician who added comedy to his routines.
+Nools McSpanner The first one is easiest actually. I caught all of them too, though the larger ball/gold ball trick confused me the most. Anyways, the cup didn't actually go through the other one. He just dropped the first cup hard enough to force the one in his hand to drop to the table while catching the one he dropped in his hand. Basically the cups just switches places.
