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+++ misc:metal_bending [2020/02/21 00:22] – Yaniv Deautsch says Geller started in 1972, but I'm being cautious by adding only "early" 1970s. stephenminch
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 ====== Metal Bending ======
-The earliest instance of so far discovered of magical metal bending is "Ireland's Famous Bent Penny" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/22805/Ireland+s+Magic+Hand+Book+and+Catalog/13|Ireland's Magic Hand Book and Catalog]]// by Laurie Ireland and Carleton King, 1932, p. 11. Ireland's trick was presented as a gag in which a spectator supposedly squeezes the performer's fist too firmly, causing a penny inside to bend rather than disappear.
+The earliest instance so far discovered of magical metal bending is "Ireland's Famous Bent Penny" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/22805/Ireland+s+Magic+Hand+Book+and+Catalog/13|Ireland's Magic Hand Book and Catalog]]// by Laurie Ireland and Carleton King, 1932, p. 11. Ireland's trick was presented as a gag in which a spectator supposedly squeezes the performer's fist too firmly, causing a penny inside to bend rather than disappear.
 "Atomic Penny" in Ben Berger's //Highlight Magic//, 1941, p. 11, takes the feat of a bending penny into a spectator's hand, which is the comedy climax of a multiphase routine in which the size of a penny waxes and wanes.
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 The gag based on an optical illusion in which a pocket watch, or large coin is apparently bent by flexing the hands back and forth is described as having been taught by Robert Hellis to a student, c. 1873, in //Hellis in Wonderland//, ed. and published by Will Houstoun, 2010, p 97-9. However, its earliest publication is thought to be in //Tricks//, Vol. 1 No. 2, June 15, 1901, p. 15.
-Metal bending as a serious "psychic" feat was established in the 1970s by Uri Geller, who appeared to bend keys and silverware by sheer concentration. Geller seems to have been the first to present the effect of bending keys. In the //International Herald Tribune//, Apr. 9 1991, James Randi claimed Geller's feats "are the kind that used to be on the back of cereal boxes when [Randi] was a kid." This may have just been a disparaging remark about the quality of Geller's methods rather than suggesting the exact mechanics had been taught on food items in eras past, but this remains uncertain.
+Metal bending as a serious "psychic" feat was established in the early 1970s by Uri Geller, who appeared to bend keys and silverware by sheer concentration. Geller seems to have been the first to present the effect of bending keys. In the //International Herald Tribune//, Apr. 9 1991, James Randi claimed Geller's feats "are the kind that used to be on the back of cereal boxes when [Randi] was a kid." This may have just been a disparaging remark about the quality of Geller's methods rather than suggesting the exact mechanics had been taught on food items in eras past, but this remains uncertain.
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