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Danny Diamond Inner circle Connecticut 1400 Posts |
The following are my ideas for three mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, brain-baffling effects...
1) One day, I wish to find a way to turn a live chicken into a stuffed and cooked chicken dinner on a platter. I want to do this without the use of a 350º pre-heated oven as well. I want the transformation to be instantaneous, maybe covering the live chicken with a scarf, then pulling the scarf away to reveal the meal. Thoughts? 2) To produce a live goat in some manner. Thoughts? 3) To end a cups and balls routine with a load of a live animal, maybe a small dove or a hamster? Thoughts?
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Night_Crawler New user 61 Posts |
I saw a guy (I forgot his name) and he had baby chicks as the final load for the cups and balls... but they just kept coming, at the end he had like 15 chicks on the table.
Night_Crawler |
Schaden Inner circle Purgatory 1253 Posts |
I think that is Michael Close.
Lee |
Danny Diamond Inner circle Connecticut 1400 Posts |
Baby chicks! That's brilliant. They are cute, small, and can't fly away. But I would have no clue how to hide 15 baby chicks on my person during the act. But even to produce 1 baby chick as a final load would certainly be more entertaining than a lemon.
You don't drown by falling in the water;
you drown by staying there. - Edwin Louis Cole |
kaytracy Inner circle Central California 1793 Posts |
The baby chicks was done by the Egyptian fellow (blanking on his name) and is a sight to see!
The chicken is doable with the right gear, think sub trunk or other illusions, just not as big! Same goes for the goat. (sort of like the rabbit in a hat thing) I used to have Sasha the wonder tortise (allergy free to me!) She was quiet, stayed mostly where I loaded her, and different, as well as the kids all liked her, and the adults usually got a surprise (she even had tie on ears, she would wear on the shell to fake being a rabbit!
Kay and Tory
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Night_Crawler New user 61 Posts |
I'll try to find the name of the magician that did the baby chick load, and kaytracy is correct, it was an Egyptian magician. If you have seen the show "Grand Illusions; The story of magic" you may have seen this magician.
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niva Inner circle Malta (Europe) 2970 Posts |
I don't know whether this is his name, but in the Mysteries of Magic that aired on the Discovery Channel, he was referred to as
"Cali Cali". The act is great to watch, but some people do not like the sight of it, as they probably assume the poor chicks aren't handled carefully. I think they are kept in a large pant pocket, the ones that are very in fashion at the time too. A friend of mine used to use a hamster too, but they did not allow him to do it anymore. Ivan
Yours,
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Curtis Kam V.I.P. same as you, plus 3 and enough to make 3498 Posts |
The final load of chicks at the end of a cup and ball routine, and more, (ending with chicks appearing in the pockets of audience volunteers) is described in Ross Bertram's first book. He attributes the description, if not the routine, to Francis Carlyle, I believe. The book is an excellent read, and tells you quite a bit about the details of chick loading, including the fact that the chicks are only the right size for the trick for about three or four days. You have to find a source of fresh chicks, and pick up new ones every week or so.
Bertram suggested practicing with rolled up socks. You start the routine with two chicks in each front pants pocket. Have fun!
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spatrick Special user Tom Sawyer let me whitewash these 517 Posts |
The person who really made the baby chicks ending really commercial was Johnny Ace Palmer's cups and balls routine. At the end he placed all three chicks into a Kentucky Fried Chicken box and produced a cup of soda. I was fortunate to be able to see this live one time and he blew me away with it.
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Peter Marucci Inner circle 5389 Posts |
Galli Galli was the magician, with the Blackstone show in the 1920s, who finished the cups and balls by producing -- repeatedly -- chicks as final loads.
And, no, they weren't treated all that well! In fact, the girls of the show complained to Blackstone that Galli Galli was cutting the chicks heads off in his hotel room and disposing of them down the toilet! (The chicks usually had broken legs from the rough handling.) Blackstone ordered the practice and the trick stopped at once. It's an old, old finish for the cups and balls and goes back 'way before the example given here -- i.e., hundreds of years! |
MopKrayz Elite user 423 Posts |
How to turn a live chicken into a cooked one?
Get an imitation rubber roasted chicken. very realistic ones are available in display suppliers that supply restuarants with plastic/rubber fake meat/fruit for display purposes. Get a sizeable chicken soft toy. Remove the inside fillings and slit the underside. Glue feathers all over. You will end up with a fake shell chicken. Use strong epoxy to fix the roast chicken to a metal platter. Fit the soft toy shell over it. Cover everything with a cloth, grab the chicken from the head through cloth and pull. It worked for me. I hope it works for you too. |
marko Inner circle 2109 Posts |
Brutal, Peter. And it looked so enchanting when I saw a clip of it on TV. Now I wouldn't be able to look at it again without cringing.
Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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njh Regular user Baltimore, MD 143 Posts |
I remember reading somewhere that Malini did something like this. His friends decided to play a joke on him. They brought out a pork dish on a platter, which Malini couldn't eat because he was Jewish and it wasn't kosher. Without even blinking, he took the platter cover, covered the plate, and the pork vanished, leaving in its place a fully cooked chicken!
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
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On 2003-05-31 02:34, Peter Marucci wrote: Gali-Gali was run out of Houston during the IBM Convention in 1957. They caught him flushing the baby chicks down the toilet. He stopped up the plumbing. I don't think he was ever invited back to an IBM convention after that.
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whoton New user 72 Posts |
Wouldnt it be nicer (esp for the animal lovers in yr audience) to turn a cooked chicken into a live one and not the other way around. Less sinister perhaps. Bring him back from the grave/dinner plate.
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