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 ====== Time-machine Plot ======
-At the P.C.A.M. 1936 Convention, Caryl Fleming performed a stage act called "The Flight of Time" in which he would perform several actions, and then turn back time so that it appeared nothing had happened; see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/23297/Tops/342|Tops]]//, Vol. 1 No. 8, Aug. 1936, p. 18.
+Jon Racherbaumer discovered what seems to be the first routine founded on the effect of turning back time: "The Charmed Watch" by Charles Wicks is the Jun-Sep 1935 issue of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/73180/The+Magic+Wand/107|The Magic Wand]]//, vol. 24, no. 166, p. 93. Wicks's routine involved a ribbon that unknotted, a picture that righted itself in its frame, numbered blocks that became re-sequenced, a cut rope that became whole again and a record made during the proceedings that disappeared.
+At the P.C.A.M. 1936 Convention, Caryl Fleming performed a stage act called "The Flight of Time". The description of the performance makes the routine sound like a minor variation on Wicks's; see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/23297/Tops/342|Tops]]//, Vol. 1 No. 8, Aug. 1936, p. 18.
 Darwin Ortiz, in //Cardshark//, 1995, p. 93, identifies the first instance of this plot applied to close-up magic as Bruce Elliott's "No Time Lost" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13141/Phoenix+101+150/37|Phoenix]]//, No. 109, July 19 1946, p. 437. The earliest application to a card trick is Ed Marlo's "Time Machine" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/9333/Ibidem+Volume+1/169|Ibidem]]//, No. 7, Sep. 1956, p. 120.
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