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--- misc:producing_a_gimmick_as_a_production_item [2013/03/29 12:51] – tag added denisbehr
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 ====== Producing a Gimmick as a Production Item ======
-The earliest instance of this amusing idea I recall seeing was a U. F. Grant marketed production prop, in which the load chamber became the final production item. (Name or details of this piece?) Jack Chanin decorated a dye tube to look like a cigar, so that he could produce it after the silk-dying effect. In "Atman-ka" (Stephen Minch), after a toad is produced from a Drumhead Tube, the load chamber is produced as a "ceremonial obelisk". A bit subtler example is James Dimarre's "Astaire Change" (//[[http://askalexander.org/display/13337/Spectacle/139|Spectacle]]//, p. 157), in which an Appearing Cane aids in changing the color of a silk, then the cane is produced from the silk. Fantasio marketed a trick in which a silk and a battery in a flashlight transposed the silk going into a false, hollow battery//, à la// Silk to Egg. (These two examples may be borderline.) Mike Caveney decorates a load bag to look like a comedy chicken, so that once the load items have been produced from someone's coat, the bag comes out as the last item.
+This idea has popped up numerous times over the years. A few examples: Jack Chanin decorated a dye tube to look like a cigar, so that he could produce it after the silk-dying effect. In "The Ceremony of Atman-ka" by Stephen Minch (in Tony Andruzzi's //Grimoire of the Mages//, 1978), after a toad is produced from a Drumhead Tube, the load chamber is produced as a "ceremonial obelisk". A bit subtler example is James Dimarre's "Astaire Change" (//[[http://askalexander.org/display/13337/Spectacle/139|Spectacle]]//, 1990, p. 157), in which an Appearing Cane aids in changing the color of a silk, then the cane is produced from the silk. Fantasio marketed a trick in which a silk and a battery in a flashlight transposed the silk going into a false, hollow battery//, à la// Silk to Egg. Mike Caveney decorates a load bag to look like a comedy chicken, so that once the load items have been produced from someone's coat, the bag comes out as the last item. See "Comedy Load Bag" in his //Magicomedy//, 1981, p. 73.
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