Posts Tagged ‘cigarette’
Fred Kaps: In Black and White
Fred Kaps with his act. I think this version is from 1961. The version with the the burning candle as the running gag. Enjoy it.
Fred Kaps was the winner of The World Championship Grand prix 3 times. The only one ever to win 3 times…1950(Barcelona), 1955(Amsterdam) and 1961 (Liège) and for the fun of it winner of Close-up Card in Amsterdam 1955. Freds Kaps was truly an all-round magician who until his dead in 1980 inspired magicians all over the world.
Tom Mullica: The famous cigarette-act
This is a wonderful trick in these, for our countries smokeless times. Enjoy Mullica and his many smokesticks. Maybe, you’ve once seen or heard about someone who could put a burning cigarette in his mouth. If you thought that was just a little funny, then watch here the world’s most famous cigarette-act. I have good news if you’re a magician and like him and his style: you can buy his DVDs.
This is his silent-act – normally he is talking and is hysterically funny in a very sweet 80ies way. This act is from FISM 1988. FISM stands for The World Championship of Magic. He won the third prize in Comedy.
Barry and Stuart: Two funny magicians
It is not that often magicians do magic together, but that is what Barry and Stuart are doing here. It is a simple and funny way where the one is talking and the other one is doing the trick – just like we know it with Penn & Teller.
Daniel Chesterfield: Smoking
Another good clip is here, where he ’s having a smoke. Try to notice just how little he does to make it look like a lot. It is a very beautiful show and in what is technically called “Economy of movements”. That means that you use the minimum of energy and movement that is needed to make the biggest possible effect.
Just one comment: he is talking Belgian in the first 10 seconds of the show and then comes the trick.
Remember that even though it is a funny clip, there’s a lot to learn for the curious of you 
The keyword for this clip is “Economy of movements“.
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Roy Benson: Live performance 1955
Roy Benson was a student at Nate Leipzig, Henk Vermeyden and he was one of Vernon peers. He was a brilliant magician who mastered both comedy, manipulation, stand-up and close-up magic. He was considered far ahead of his time.
He is quoted to say: “Magic is The Second Oldest Profession” and made an essay about presentations by the same name. You can read that essay in the book named below.
The book: “Roy Benson by Starlight” contains over fifty of his effects and sleights, including the famous Benson Bowl Routine, Long Salt Pour, Billiard Balls, Linking Rings, Miser’s Dream, card moves, coin effects, stage magic, close-up and comedic routines. You can buy this awesome book right here: http://www.miraclefactory.net/benson.htm