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 An unusual red and black separation effect, "Les Seize Rouges et les Seize Noires", is an early relative of the Oil and Water plot. This appeared in the French conjuring journal //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/passez_muscade.pdf|Passez Muscade]]//, No. 23, Sep 1924, p. 290, under the byline of "Professeur Magicus". A deck is examined and shuffled by a spectator and set under the foot of a goblet. The goblet is covered. The spectator next chooses red or black, and all cards of this color are made to travel magically from the deck to the goblet above. The method involves the Mirror Glass principle, a box that switches decks and a prepared set of double-faced cards with red faces on one side and a Deland-like two-card-spread gaff on the other side. When the pack is fanned with the gaffed two-card faces showing, it appears to be a full deck, but when the other side is fanned and displayed, only red cards are seen and they may be counted to prove there is only half a deck left.
-It has been pointed out that Samuel Pavloff contributed a Four Ace effect, "What's Up?", to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38699/Hugard+s+Magic+Monthly/68|Hugard's Magic Monthly]]//, Vol. 6 No. 7, Dec. 1948, p. 494, in which, at one point he uses an oil-and-water metaphor with others conveying the idea of separation. That is the only similarity to Marlo's "Oil and Water".
+It has been pointed out that Samuel Pavloff contributed a Four Ace effect, "What's Up?", to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38699/Hugard+s+Magic+Monthly/68|Hugard's Magic Monthly]]//, Vol. 6 No. 7, Dec. 1948, p. 494, in which, at one point he uses an oil-and-water metaphor, with others, conveying the idea of separation. That is the only similarity to Marlo's "Oil and Water".
 ===== Anti Oil and Water =====
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 In 1928, Leslie Guest proposed the effect of causing the cards in two banks—one red, one black—to alternate magically. In his column in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/40797/Linking+Ring/45|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 8 No. 8, Oct. 1928, p. 639, Guest mentioned that a number of methods could be constructed, and gave as an example preparing a deck by waxing pairs of cards together. This variant effect is now commonly called "Anti Oil and Water".  Marlo reinvented the effect when he published "Oil and Water Climax" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/199|Ibidem]]//, No. 8, Dec. 1956, p. 15.
-===== The Oil & Water Effect applied to Card Backs =====
+===== The Oil & Water Effect Applied to Card Backs =====
-In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/340|Ibidem]]//, No. 15, Dec. 1958, p. 14, Marlo published a variant effect, "The Second B and R Routine", in which blue- and red-backed cards are mixed and caused to separate, using the card backs rather than the colors of the faces as the focal feature. Bill Miesel seems to be the first to have published an amalgamation of the two variants to create a further variation that has become known as "Technicolor Oil and Water", in which the effect is made to seem more impossible by using red cards with red backs, and black cards with blue backs. See his "Oil and Water" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15139/M+U+M/616|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 55 No. 11, Apr. 1966, p. 24.
+In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/340|Ibidem]]//, No. 15, Dec. 1958, p. 14, Marlo published a variant effect, "The Second B and R Routine", in which blue- and red-backed cards are mixed and caused to separate, using the card backs rather than the colors of the faces as the focal feature. Marlo also mentions using red-backed Tens cards and blue-backed Jacks. This made the separation seem more difficult since both backs and faces can be clearly differentiated. Some years later, William Miesel published a routine with just a slight change in the effect: Red-backed red cards and blue-backed black cards are used. See "Oil and Water" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15139/M+U+M/616|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 55 No. 11, Apr. 1966, p. 24. This variation later became known as "Technicolor Oil and Water".
 Shortly thereafter, Karl Fulves published another "Technicolor" routine that exercised greater influence than Miesel's on further variations: "The Cards That Can't be Mixed", //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12851/Pallbearers+Review+Vol+3+4/12-13|The Pallbearers Review]]//, Winter Folio 1967, p. 140. A few months later (//[[http://askalexander.org/display/12851/Pallbearers+Review+Vol+3+4/37|The Pallbearers Review]]//, Vol. 3 No. 5, Mar. 1978, p. 165), Fulves mentioned Ron Edwards's "No Two Ways" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/301|Ibidem]]//, No. 13, Mar. 1958, p. 11, as a related effect. The Edwards trick used a four-card packet, and resembles a puzzle posed to the spectators that has no solution more than it does a magical effect. Therefore, while related, it is not a Technicolor Oil and Water effect.
-===== All One Color Climax =====
+===== Face-up Face-down Oil and Water =====
-Karl Fulves was the first to publish the idea of climaxing an Oil and Water routine by having all the cards change to the same color. See “Camouflage” in his //Packet Switches (Part Two),// 1973, p. 98. Two years later, Edward Marlo laid the idea at the feet of David Solomon, with no mention of Fulves. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10964/Marlo+s+Magazine/165|Marlo's Magazine, Vol. 1]]//, 1975, p. 156, where Solomon’s method is given. Fulves’s method and Solomon’s bear no resemblance to each other. This climax can be viewed as an outgrowth of Roy Walton’s “Oil and Queens” effect, from his //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15011/The+Devil+s+Playthings+A+Collection+of+Card+Tricks/12|Devil's Playthings]]//, 1969, p. 15, a debt that Fulves acknowledged, as does Solomon.
+In the same Marlo article in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/343|Ibidem]]//, No. 15 cited above, he also mentions the idea of doing an Oil and Water effect with face-up and face-down cards; see p. 17.
-Fulves's "Camouflage" also includes another interesting feature: the idea of having the cards of one color turned face down while keeping the cards of the other color face up during their alternation and subsequent separation.
+===== Transformation Climax =====
+==== All One Color Climax ====
+Howard P. Lyons is the first to publish the idea of climaxing an Oil and Water routine by having all the cards change to the same color. Lyons considered the effect an inside joke to show only to other magicians. See "Clown Version" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/229|Ibidem]]//, No. 9, Mar. 1957 p. 180 (of the 1993 book edition of //Ibidem//, Vol. 1).
+Sixteen years later, Karl Fulves reinvented the idea as a serious effect; see “Camouflage” in his //Packet Switches (Part Two),// 1973, p. 98.
+==== Oil and Queens ====
+This surprise variant of Oil and Water, in which the four cards of one color change to four Queens as a climax, was originated by Roy Walton and originally published in his //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15011/The+Devil+s+Playthings+A+Collection+of+Card+Tricks/12|Devil's Playthings]]// (1969), p. 15.
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