Simply sublime. The helicopter card trick - I've no idea at what point the sleight was accomplished and in this case I don't want to know. I'm happy to just experience the magic. I loved that last one where the audience was in on the trick. Beautiful stuff. Thanks for posting this.
Since you don’t want to know I won’t tell you, but I’ll just say watching it with the convenience of RU-vid instant replay I was able to see it, but without that I never would have.
@@briancline7349 I wanted to learn the hankerchief trick so I bought a vintage Slydini book and it had the helicopter in there too. So I now know how both were done! Of course, doing them myself with even the smallest amount of competency is another thing entirely!!! :)
Definitely worthy of the moniker the "Great" Slydini. Even in close and on camera he's so flawless you can't help but find yourself believing in his magic.
Wow. I only met him once and regret not taking a few lessons which he would give to anyone with twenty bucks in his pocket. Certainly one of the masters of the art.
The quality of these recordings is great. Thanks for sharing these excellent moments with Slydini. It would be truly wonderful to be able to find all the recordings of Slydini with the quality of this recording or better and share them with the magic community. I am glad that Dick Cavett took such an interest in Slydini and the art of magic. Thanks again for sharing.
I had heard of this guy from comments made by Penn on Penn and Teller 'Fool Us' and thought I'd look him up. He's so good and I can see why other magicians speak so well of him. That last trick was so funny too. Slydini was a master of his craft.
Used to go to Devoe Magic Den in St. Louis den when I was little and learning magic the guy in there was one of the best sleight of hand people I have ever seen
I can expose most of this. It's lapping with the coins - and replay the paper balls enough times - you will see it. It is just misdirection. He has an extra ball in play. When he holds one up in his left hand he drops another in with his right... easy!
Whether you asked or not I'm giving you one! With the paper balls in box, I think there are five balls. He starts with an extra one in his lap. He gets this in his right hand while displaying the ball he just screwed up in his left. He can then drop it into the box with his right just pretending.You can see the ball in his left hand so you assume he can't have a ball in his right and is just messing around. Then he vanishes the ball in his left by lapping it ready to give him the extra ball to repeat the move with the next ball he screws up. I don't understand why people are not calling out on this, it is so simple!!
***** Also, transient, Dick can see all the lapping!!! He is in on the secret. But he pretends at the end he doesn't understand. Playing along with the magician!
I see how he does it. It is simple when you know it. Not easy. That is why no one else really does it. It is the hardest trick to do. He uses misdirection and places the card so gingerly with such grace it is almost impossible to catch.
its not in the 30 hardest trcks, let alone the hardest. Its actually pretty intermediate. Switch/decoy - palm/clip - placement. If you want to know what the hard tricks are (sleight heavy) go watch some Buck twins stuff or Ernest Earick or Darwin Ortiz etc. Tony has easy tricks, almost all of them, but theres a (huge!) reason why he is considered one of the best ever. And its certainly not the skill required to pull off his tricks nor its his knuckle busting sleights.
28mins he is way into the Paper Balls over the head. Yes those do infact remain on the floor. But your comment semed to have been regarding the early part of the act. Tony would allow the spectator that had not been able to see what was happening to the tissue paper all that time.
I'm sure you can find some by Googling. Thing is, it takes an insane amount of skill to pull it off, because you're performing a very difficult move right under the spectator's nose, and daring them to catch you as you do it. The only hint I'll give because I don't want to spoil it: look very closely at the pile of cards on the table as the routine progresses.
You try it... It's not easy, it takes great skill, most magicians today don't do it. For you to have figured that out, you must either be a skeptic who watches every magic trick on video a dozen times, or you are a magician. I haven''t found any magic tutorial of this great classic trick, that tells me that either they don't know it, they can't do it and have better things to make videos about, or they respect the man so much, they won't reveal this great kept secret to only professionals. I'm sure its in books, or Professionals like Jay Sankey will teach it on videos that only professionals will buy, but this is really meant to be kept a secret to the RU-vid community.
16:43 - palming the card first and putting it into the table side, chair or somewhere else out of view 17:04 - grabbing the card with the left hand and putting it into his right hand, exactly when the fooled guy looks for the cards near slydini (slydini also jumps a bit, for whatever reason) 17:26 - missdirection to look for cards but actually putting the right one in the pool on the table
He did.. at 16:02, the second time when he is pointing at a card the fooled guy should look at, he dropped the black 10. It was palmed the whole time in his right hand (from 15:34)
I worked for Copperfield. They are two totally different magicians. Copperfield is an illusionist who does "SOME" close up magic. He does it with perfection because as with everything he does, it is with true diligence. He has too much respect for Slydini to do some of his classics.
