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cards:fusion [2018/08/13 19:55] – Added Kaufman's Abstract reference. stephenminchcards:fusion [2019/04/25 06:39] – Added precursor. tylerwilson
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 Wesley James has claimed the Fusion plot as his, but he didn't publish his "Forgery" until //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14532/Stop+Fooling+Us+Lecture+Notes/46|Stop Fooling Us!]]//, 1989, p. 39. James has two cards fuse, one signed by the spectator, the other by the performer. Even if calculating by James's claims of creating his trick in 1965 (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12674/Enchantments|Enchantments]]//, 2004, p. 5), Houghton's fusion effect, although lacking signatures, predates it by nine years. Wesley James has claimed the Fusion plot as his, but he didn't publish his "Forgery" until //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14532/Stop+Fooling+Us+Lecture+Notes/46|Stop Fooling Us!]]//, 1989, p. 39. James has two cards fuse, one signed by the spectator, the other by the performer. Even if calculating by James's claims of creating his trick in 1965 (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12674/Enchantments|Enchantments]]//, 2004, p. 5), Houghton's fusion effect, although lacking signatures, predates it by nine years.
  
-Other early and influential routines employing the concept of fusing two cards or portions of two cards are Kaufman, Maze and Arthur'"Fusion" in Richard Kaufman'//Cardworks//, 1981, p. 47; an improved handling of this routine in Kaufman's lecture notes, //Abstract//, 1984n.p.and Peter Samelson'"New York Transpo" in his //Theatrical Close-up//, 1984, p. 73.+The open use of gimmicked cards was later introduced to enhance the effect. Gene Maze, Richard Kaufman, and David Arthur used a double-backed card in their "Fusion" routine from //CardWorks//, 1981, p. 47. Strictly speaking, this wasn’t a fusion routine, regardless of the title. The cards weren’t fused but merely “stuck together” (which, while similar, is conceptually different). The double-backer was then split back into two cards, giving the merger no permanency. That same year, Paul Harris and Looy Simonoff published "The Beast with Two Backs" in //Close-Up Fantasies Finalé//1981, p. 113, which ended with two cards permanently fused together in the form of a red/blue double-backer. Steve Beam developed the idea of ending with a double-facer, publishing it as "Making Faces" in //The Trapdoor//, No. 7Jan1985, p. 115. In his text, Beam claims to have been doing the routine since his college days. 
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 +Prior to the fusion effect being applied to cards, it was suggested for [[coin:fusion|coins and billiard balls]]. 
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 +===== Precursor ===== 
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 +Prior to cards being fused face-to-face or back-to-back, George Fairclough published a method of fusing cards end-to-end. His trick, "The Mystical Aces and Kingsappeared in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38527/The+Sphinx/5|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 6 No. 8, Oct. 1907, p. 93.
  
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