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"Portal" is a magic trick performed by the illusionist David Copperfield, in which he takes a member of the audience and transports both of them to a pre-selected location (Hawaii, the Hoover Dam, Australia, etc.), before reappearing on stage. This effect was featured in David Copperfield's shows from 2000 to the summer of 2007, and then again ...
This article contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and ...
Copperfield performed a much-shortened version of the illusion as the entrance in his sixteenth television special, The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires Of Passion, in 1993. The performance used a different background and music, in addition to burning spinning hoops.
How it works in a magic trick: “You sort of layer these things on top of each other,” Roy says. “And I think that's something that people don't often realize about magic: It's not like there ...
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed is a series of television shows and specials in which the methods behind magic tricks and illusions are explained by a narrator and are performed in a warehouse in the United States with no audience, by an unknown "world class" magician known as the "masked magician" who does not speak and wears a mask on the show to ...
A magician performs the "chink-a-chink" coin trick, having started from a square of four coins. Chink-a-chink is a simple close-up magic coin trick in which a variety of small objects, usually four, appear to magically transport themselves from location to location when covered by the performer's hands, until the items end up gathered together in the same place.
Houdini's Magic Trunk; Making a Girl's Middle Disappear; Evil Spirit Pyramid - Conjuring Spirits; Catching a Selected Card in the Air with a Sword; Escaping the Blades of Death; Episode Eight August 15, 2010 Magic Barrel (Through the Eye of a Needle) Houdini's Fish Bowl; Playing Card Through Street Window; Asrah levitation; Making Girls Appear ...
Magic dust – invisible substance stored in magician's pocket that supposedly makes tricks work. Excuse for going to a pocket to get rid of a vanished item. Also called "Woofle Dust." See Misdirection. Magician's choice – see Force. Magician's rope – soft, usually white rope used for rope tricks.