September 5 - Pocket Trick Drive
Rex Stott assisted by Peter Bennett computed the mathemagical formula to enable the twenty-six pocket-trick participants to perform and see twenty-six different tricks without repetition, hesitation or deviation!
Paul Kitchen took the theme quite literally and produced his trick, with a key, from a portable pocket. Tim Cockerill showed A Sense of Touch, an Ian Rowland trick. Jon Marshall tried to photograph a spirit card with a Polaroid camera. Richard Fawkes changed a copper coin into a Chinese coin. Brian Wilson predicted the number of matches left in a pile. Rex Stott took us on a puzzling trip to the Bermuda Triangle and showed Robert Neale’s Walking Thru a Brick Wall. Sue Saunders divined the colour of a rod sealed in a brass tube. Marion Hodgson found a card with the aid of an ‘x-ray disc’. Alan Johnston vanished a matchbox. Malcolm Bromwich showed three ‘betchas’ using glasses and coins. Eddie Dawes changed a black die to a white one faster than you could blink. Arthur Setterington showed a trick using cards printed like dice. Ray Burrell performed Daryl’s routine the Jumping Knot of Pakistan, originally a Pavel effect. Brian Waltham predicted a chosen colour with the aid of a cardboard tube from which a coloured ball appeared, a Magigram item of course.
Then there were the all card tricks with enough packs of Bicycle cards to stock Keith Bennett’s dealer stand. Domanic Li presented Anything Deck from Paul Harris’s Art of Astonishment. Jonathan Gaines showed an Ace Location. Daniel Bell’s trick had a gambling theme. Margaret Henriksen performed her Ace trick culminating in the appearance of all four aces. Peter Mackenzie’s packet pocket card trick was a twisting the aces variation. Matthew Bentley showed a trick where the backs of the cards kept changing. Tom Wilkinson presented Larry Jennings Impossible card trick. Keeping the card theme going and showing just why lay people should not play cards with magicians were the excellent card tricks presented by Peter Bennett, Bernard Reuben, Chris Pawson and Gordon Stow.
Paul Kitchen took the theme quite literally and produced his trick, with a key, from a portable pocket. Tim Cockerill showed A Sense of Touch, an Ian Rowland trick. Jon Marshall tried to photograph a spirit card with a Polaroid camera. Richard Fawkes changed a copper coin into a Chinese coin. Brian Wilson predicted the number of matches left in a pile. Rex Stott took us on a puzzling trip to the Bermuda Triangle and showed Robert Neale’s Walking Thru a Brick Wall. Sue Saunders divined the colour of a rod sealed in a brass tube. Marion Hodgson found a card with the aid of an ‘x-ray disc’. Alan Johnston vanished a matchbox. Malcolm Bromwich showed three ‘betchas’ using glasses and coins. Eddie Dawes changed a black die to a white one faster than you could blink. Arthur Setterington showed a trick using cards printed like dice. Ray Burrell performed Daryl’s routine the Jumping Knot of Pakistan, originally a Pavel effect. Brian Waltham predicted a chosen colour with the aid of a cardboard tube from which a coloured ball appeared, a Magigram item of course.
Then there were the all card tricks with enough packs of Bicycle cards to stock Keith Bennett’s dealer stand. Domanic Li presented Anything Deck from Paul Harris’s Art of Astonishment. Jonathan Gaines showed an Ace Location. Daniel Bell’s trick had a gambling theme. Margaret Henriksen performed her Ace trick culminating in the appearance of all four aces. Peter Mackenzie’s packet pocket card trick was a twisting the aces variation. Matthew Bentley showed a trick where the backs of the cards kept changing. Tom Wilkinson presented Larry Jennings Impossible card trick. Keeping the card theme going and showing just why lay people should not play cards with magicians were the excellent card tricks presented by Peter Bennett, Bernard Reuben, Chris Pawson and Gordon Stow.
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