Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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cards:two-card_monte [2018/07/25 04:54] – Added Fischer reference from the Daley entry. tylerwilsoncards:two-card_monte [2018/07/25 13:22] – airing date corrected denisbehr
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-Around the turn of the twenty-first century, magicians also began using the "Two-Card Monte" title for a double card transformation performed by David Blaine on his television special, //Street Magic//, 1996. Apart from the name, this trick shares nothing in common with DeLand's.+Around the turn of the twenty-first century, magicians also began using the "Two-Card Monte" title for a double card transformation performed by David Blaine on his television special, //Street Magic//, May 1997. Apart from the name, this trick shares nothing in common with DeLand's.
  
 The trick Blaine performed has its roots in Eddie Fechter's "Be Honest What Is It?" from //Magician Nitely//, 1974, p. 10. However, there are many differences between these two tricks. The missing links for the evolution of Fechter's trick into what Blaine performed are Tom Ogden's "The Subtle Switch" from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/20335/M+U+M/587|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 71 No. 11, Apr. 1982, p. 16; and Paul Gertner's identically titled, but heavily varied, "Be Honest What Is It?" from the videotape //Secret Sessions #3//, c. 1995. Even though Gertner's handling makes several advances, he erroneously claims that it's Fechter's, straight out of //Magician Nitely//. The handling David Blaine used was essentially Paul Gertner's, but without the card-to-pocket finale. The trick Blaine performed has its roots in Eddie Fechter's "Be Honest What Is It?" from //Magician Nitely//, 1974, p. 10. However, there are many differences between these two tricks. The missing links for the evolution of Fechter's trick into what Blaine performed are Tom Ogden's "The Subtle Switch" from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/20335/M+U+M/587|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 71 No. 11, Apr. 1982, p. 16; and Paul Gertner's identically titled, but heavily varied, "Be Honest What Is It?" from the videotape //Secret Sessions #3//, c. 1995. Even though Gertner's handling makes several advances, he erroneously claims that it's Fechter's, straight out of //Magician Nitely//. The handling David Blaine used was essentially Paul Gertner's, but without the card-to-pocket finale.

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