Disappearing Tricks

This work revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. The author treats cinema and stage magic as overlapping practices that together revise our understanding of the origins of motion pictures and cinematic spectacle.

Budding magicians will love exploring the art of magic with Floating and Disappearing Magic to Enchant and Excite. They will read how famous illusionists fooled their audiences. Then learn how to trick an audience of their own! Kids will follow simple instructions and photos to make straws vanish, coffee cups float, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Simple text, photos, and step-by-step instructions teach readers about disappearing magic and tricks performed by notable magicians. Readers will love learning to do these fun disappearing acts to make coins, marbles, and even water disappear!

This colorful and inviting book is a step-by-step guide to simple magic tricks, from basic card tricks to making objects disappear. Bright and descriptive photographs carefully illustrate how each trick is performed. Readers of every level will enjoy becoming masterful and mesmerizing magicians.

Ivy Pochoda's spellbinding and cinematic storytelling seamlessly fuses timeless magic to modern-day passion. Haunting and beautiful, The Art of Disappearing is an imaginative and captivating love story destined to enchant readers for years to come. How do you know if love is real or just an illusion? When Mel Snow meets the talented magician Toby Warring in a dusty roadside bar, she is instantly drawn to the brilliant performer whose hands can effortlessly pull stray saltshakers and poker chips from thin air and conjure castles out of the desert sands. Just two days later they are married, beginning their life together in the shadow of Las Vegas, where Toby hopes to make it big. Mel knows that magicians are a dime a dozen, but Toby is different—his magic is real. As Toby's renown grows and Mel falls more and more in love with his wonderments, she starts to realize that Toby's powers are as unstable as they are dazzling. She learns that he once made his assistant disappear completely, and couldn't bring her back. And then, just as Mel becomes convinced that his magic is dangerous, a trick goes terribly awry during his Strip debut. Exiled from the stage, Mel and Toby flee the lights of Las Vegas for the streets of Amsterdam where a cabal of old-time magicians, real magicians like Toby, try to rescue him from his despair. But he's haunted by the trick that failed, and obsessed with using his powers to right his mistakes, leaving Mel to wonder if the love they share is genuine or merely a fantasy, conjured up by a lost magician looking to save himself from being alone.

Professional magician Joshua Jay's (author of Magic: The Complete Course) brief and fascinating essays offer an inside look at how the very best magicians think about magic, how they practice and put together a show, what inspires them, and the psychology behind creating wonder and being tricked when we expect both, as well as why we seek magic in the first place.

"Based on the true story of Henry "Box" Brown's amazing escape from slavery"--Cover.

If you're into mental magic tricks and can't get enough of them, "The Secret of Mental Magic Tricks: How To Amaze Your Friends With These Mental Magic Tricks Today" will get you pretty excited. But what if you don't know much about it or are just getting started? This book has you covered on that as well because it explains exactly what mental magic tricks are which includes the various rules. What's really nice is that it goes into detail chapter by chapter on specific tricks such as table magic, card, coin and others. Choose which one you would like to master, or master them all! The instructions are written so that you can become a pro at each one. Even a beginner that's just getting into mental magic can become a pro. By the time you've gone through each chapter, you should be able to master each trick which will impress your friends and make them wonder if you're for real.