Smoke & Mirrors by John Bannon – Instant Magic Download
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- Learn close-up card magic from John Bannon.
- Includes routines from his bestselling book.
- Easy-to-perform, high-impact card magic.
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Unlock the secrets of close-up magic with Smoke & Mirrors by John Bannon (Instant Download)! This digital download is a must-have for magicians of all skill levels.
John Bannon is renowned for creating practical and deceptive close-up magic, and his routines are staples in the repertoires of professionals and hobbyists alike. This video features the best routines from his bestselling book, “Smoke & Mirrors,” focusing on direct, visual, and utterly baffling card magic.
Prepare to be amazed by these easy-to-master routines with novel premises and impactful presentations:
Routines Performed and Explained:
- Tattoo You: An initialed selected card matches a prediction, with the initials visually transferring to the prediction as a souvenir.
- Detour De Force: Two predictions are in full view, and two selected cards match them in an astonishing way.
- Do The ‘Twixt: A signed card vanishes from the deck and appears in the spectator’s hand.
- Masquerade: Jokers vanish from individual packets and assemble in a leader packet, culminating in a kicker ending where they transform into four aces.
- Lessons Are Extra: A gambling demonstration where you seemingly teach card cheating techniques, dealing yourself winning poker hands.
- Outer Limits: A spectator thinks of a card in a small packet, and you instantly reveal their thought.
- New Jack City: The four Jacks impossibly locate two selected cards lost in the deck.
- Timely Departure: A spectator thinks of an hour and three cards; you reveal the hour and find the three selections as the only face-up cards in the deck.
- Sheep To The Slaughter: A card cheating demonstration where you deal yourself the four aces, only for the hand to transform into a Royal Flush.
- Call Of The Wild (performance only): Blank cards transform into identical aces, then four different aces, and finally into a Royal Flush.
- Trick Shot Production: A selected card leads to a surprise production.
- Underhanded: A selected card is found in full view under an object on the table.
This download also includes explanations of the techniques used in these routines.
A Meir Yedid Magic product, produced by A-1 MagicalMedia. Original release date: 1993. Running time: Approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes.
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Smoke & Mirrors by John Bannon ( Instant Download )
John Bannon is one of the most popular creators of close-up magic and his routines are regularly used by many professional and hobbyist magicians. If you don’t have a John Bannon routine in your repertoire you are missing out on direct, visual and impossible close-up magic.
On this video John Bannon teaches the best routines from his bestselling book “Smoke & Mirrors.” The focus of this video is card magic that is direct, entertaining and never fails to fool. You will love the many easy-to-perform routines with novel premises and high impact.
Routines performed and explained:
►Tattoo You: An easy routine where an initialed selected card matches a prediction. The initials are visually transferred to the prediction and it is given as a souvenir.
►Detour De Force: Two predictions are placed in full view. Two cards are selected and match the predictions in the most unusual way.
►Do The ‘Twixt: A playing card is placed in the spectator’s hand. Three cards are selected and returned to the deck. You magically cut to three cards. Two are the selections — the third is not — because the signed selection is in the spectator’s hand.
►Masquerade: A Joker assembly where the jokers vanish from individual packets and appear in a leader packet. As a kicker ending the jokers change into four aces.
►Lessons Are Extra: A gambling demonstration where you apparently teach the techniques of card cheaters and continually deal winning poker hands to yourself.
►Outer Limits: A spectator cuts a small packet of cards and thinks of one of them. You immediately tell them what they are thinking of.
►New Jack City: Two cards are selected and lost in different parts of the deck. The four Jacks then find the selections in an impossible way.
►Timely Departure: A spectator thinks of an hour while three cards are thought of. You name the though-of hour and spread the deck to show that the three selections are the only ones face-up.
►Sheep To The Slaughter: A card cheating demonstration where the four aces are obviously dealt to yourself but when the hand is turned over it is the Royal Flush.
►Call Of The Wild (performance only): A marketed routine where blank cards change to identical aces, four different aces and finally into a Royal Flush.
►Trick Shot Production: A memorable routine that starts out with a selected card and ends with a surprise production.
►Underhanded: A card is selected and then found in full view under an object on the table.
Also explained are the many techniques used to accomplish these routines.
A Meir Yedid Magic product. Produced by A-1 MagicalMedia. Original release date: 1993. Running time: Approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes.
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Violet Bryant (verified owner) –
I got standing ovations!