|
|
|
|||
| Go to page 1~2 [Next] | ||||||||||
amakar Loyal user 235 Posts 
|
A colleague of mine is writing a paper that incorporates the history of magic.
He asked about the top 10 classic effects in magic. What do you think are the top 10 classic magic tricks? Andy |
|||||||||
mrunge Inner circle Charleston, SC 3716 Posts
|
To me, the TOP, number one, effect has to be the Cups and Balls!!
Mark. |
|||||||||
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
|
Cups and Balls, Linking Rings, Egg Bag, Cut & Restored Rope, Rabbit from Hat, Sawing a Lady in Half, Levitation, Guillotine, Metamorphosis, ??
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
|||||||||
|
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
|
# 10 on my list could be Miser's Dream.
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
|||||||||
george1953 Inner circle Mallorca (Spain) 5943 Posts
|
Cups and balls just hs to be number 1
By failing to prepare, we are preparing to fail.
|
|||||||||
scenic effects New user Wisconsin - USA 77 Posts
|
I would have to agree with Michael Baker - I think he's right on target!
|
|||||||||
|
meridianfan Loyal user 259 Posts
|
Maybe ball and vase somewhere on that list?
|
|||||||||
|
motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6135 Posts
|
Michael hit on most of them.
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
– Karl Germain |
|||||||||
|
mrunge Inner circle Charleston, SC 3716 Posts
|
While I also agree with Michaels list, I agree with Meridianfan that the Ball and Vase should be on the list. Almost every person interested in magic has this in their drawer and it's one of the first things everyone picks up as a child and piques their interest, leading to a lifetime of joy and entertainment.
Mark. |
|||||||||
|
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
|
I can think of several more, so it may be that a list of classic effects would have to exceed ten. I agree about the ball and vase. I suppose only a tallied concensus would effectively give us the top ten.
Some others: Die Box Straight Jacket Escape Color Changing Silks Torn & Restored Newspaper Sponge Balls The Rising Cards Production Cabinet Sword Box (or Basket) Hindu Rope Trick (even though very seldom seen) Pick A Card Flower Production Vanishing Cane Floating Ball Dancing Handkerchief Livestock Production (or Vanish) Disappearing Milk (pitcher) Multiplying Billiard Balls Vanishing Lady Passe Passe Bottle & Glass The list can go on.
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
|||||||||
|
Jiceh Special user France 742 Posts
|
Quote:
On 2013-06-03 16:33, Michael Baker wrote: I agree except Egg Bag, Guillotine and Metamorphosis. I add : Card production from back palming, apparition of silks ... |
|||||||||
|
Anatole Inner circle 1912 Posts
|
Bruce Elliot in one of his books (maybe "Classic Secrets of Magic"?) presented two lists compiled from a survey I think in _The Phoenix_.
One list was the tricks/routines most often performed by magicians. The other list was the tricks/routines that magicians most liked to see. I don't have the book handy right now, but maybe someone can check their copy and add some comments. ----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez P.S. I just checked the Magicref pages at: http://magicref.tripod.com/books/elliottclassic.htm and yes, it was _Classic Secrets of Magic_ that has 1) a list of best-liked effects in magic and 2) the 20 most performed effects by American magicians It might be interesting for one of the current magazines to run a similar survey to see if the tricks in the list have changed over the decades. It would also be interesting to compare a survey done with American magicians with magicians in other parts of the world.
----- Sonny Narvaez
|
|||||||||
|
Anatole Inner circle 1912 Posts
|
BTW, Andy, I'm curious as to where your friend's paper will be published. Will it appear in one of the trade magazines like _GENII_ or _Magic_ or is it part of a master's thesis for a college degree of some sort? I'm sure many of us would be interested in reading it when it's published.
Bruce Elliott's book was published back in the 1953, so I'm guessing that there would be some substantial changes in the list, if only because new tricks and routines have come out since 1953. Also, I think print publishing (both books and magazines), television broadcasts, the Internet/youtube and the advent of instructional video will have had an impact on the list. In Elliott's day, one of the primary venues for seeing a wide variety of magic acts was magic conventions. The coming of cable television and the Internet will surely have had an impact on the number of performances viewable from all over the world. ----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez
----- Sonny Narvaez
|
|||||||||
|
frankvomit Elite user 485 Posts
|
1) Cup and Ball by Paul Daniels (Chop cup)
2) Tellers Misers Dream - Penn and Teller 3) Doug Hennings Levitating on a water foutain - Doug Henning 4) Sleight of Body - Pendragons 5)Chinese water torture cell escape - Harry Houdini 6) Bullett catch - Penn and Teller 7) Re-animation of the thanksgiving Turkey - Max Malini 8) Block of Ice production - Max Malini 9) Either Levitation - Robert Houdin 10) Penetration of the Great Wall of China - David Copperfield These are just my favourate effects that I either was lucky enough to see or just heard about. |
|||||||||
|
Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
|
Quote: On 2013-06-23 12:55, Anatole wrote:
SNEAKY, UNDERHANDED, DEVIOUS,& SURREPTITIOUS ITINERANT MOUNTEBANK
|
|||||||||
|
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
|
I would also imagine a huge difference if you surveyed over 30 versus under 30. The face of magic and what is popular today is more closely associated with slick video ads online than any of the stone age resources we learned from.
 I can only imagine the amount of magic that is learned and ultimately placed on lists of favorites that now comes, at least in initial contact, by way of smart phones and i-pads.
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
|||||||||
|
mir11 New user 50 Posts
|
Cut & Restored Rope, Rabbit from Hat,Egg Bag, Cups and Balls, Linking Rings,Sawing a Lady in Half, Levitation, Guillotine,
Bullett catch, Chinese water torture cell escape? |
|||||||||
|
reed kammerer Veteran user 320 Posts
|
I think all listed are in top ten, but missed Thumb Tips many effects.
|
|||||||||
Wravyn Inner circle 3510 Posts
|
Quote:
On Feb 17, 2022, reed kammerer wrote: I agree that the tip is one of the top most useful items, they are not a trick in themselves. The TT is needed for the tricks to create an effect but they are not the effect. |
|||||||||
|
Magical Moments Veteran user 341 Posts
|
I am thinking that the following would certainly qualify but of course, it is rather difficult to agree on a list of ten due to our experiences and opinions being varied. My choices are based on what many of us started with when we began our journey into the art of magic.
BALL AND VASE IMP BOTTLE CUPS AND BALLS CUT AND RESTORED ROPE PENETRATION FRAME BILLIARD BALLS LINKING RINGS Svengali DECK SIBERIAN CHAIN ESCAPE ANY PADDLE |
|||||||||
| The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » Everything old is new again » » The top 10 classics of magic (7 Likes) | ||||||||||
| Go to page 1~2 [Next] | ||||||||||
Posted: Jun 3, 2013 03:09 pm 
| [ Top of Page ] |
|
All content & postings Copyright © 2001-2024 Steve Brooks. All Rights Reserved. This page was created in 0.03 seconds requiring 5 database queries. |
|
The views and comments expressed on The Magic Café are not necessarily those of The Magic Café, Steve Brooks, or Steve Brooks Magic. > Privacy Statement < 
|