1 Backdrop Illusion
Screens
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| 1. Tri-Fold Transformation
Screen 2. Bryce’s Six-Fold Solution 3. Solo “Victory” Appearance Screen 4. Spiderweb Solo Appearance Screen |
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2 Descent Illusion
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Descent is a "poor man's Elevator Illusion," made from PVC pipe and inexpensive fabric covers, but with no need for a platform and capable of being performed "solo," although adding assistants would certianly make the act look bigger.
3 Materialization
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As a bonus, Jim adds his De-Materialization Illusion, which can act as a vanish OR better yet, as a Transposition in which the assistant vanishes from one set of screens to the second set of screens.
4 Hi-Strung
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Hi-Strung is based on an Okito/Fu-Manchu collaboration written up in The Sphinx in 1941. I took the basic idea and adapted it for my Wiz Kids, making the cabinet out of PVC Pipe with foamboard sides, and turning it into an amazing clown appearance, rope penetration, and levitation all in one illusion. It also has the advantage of rolling in and out on its own caster platform.
5 Rip Van
Winkle - Revisited
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The Rip Van Winkle Illusion was invented by Edwin Brush (c.1940), and is an excellent one-man vanish. reappearance/ quick-change Illusion that works on the smallest platform stage up to the largest theatre stage. It is easily transported and assembled and requires no assistant to make "both" characters appear in the playlet.
Jim has redesigned it to be made from PVC Pipe, as well as making other "improvements" to bring it up-to-date. He notes that Brush's original theme of "Rip Van Winkle" may be out of date, so he proposes using it instead for a variety of modern themes, described in the e-Book, that are better suited to today's audiences.
6 The
Mysterio Cabinet -Revisited
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The Mysterio Cabinet may have been the invention of McDonald Birch who featured it prominently in his Illusion shows. It is rarely seen these days, but it is perfectly suited to PVC conversion, and with Jim's simplified operation, much of the mechanical screens and traps are eliminated. This could make a comeback!
7 Giant
Chinese Temple Screen
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UF Grant's Temple Screen has been long used as a small production device, but when expanded to Giant Size with a PVC Pipe Framework and sparkling faces of mylar, it becomes a stage illusion that you can also perform in a parlor or platform setting. Produce one or more assistants, plus scads of stuff, oriental or not, like real Chinese lanterns, all lit, Chinese parasols, huge production cloths, a Chinese Dragon and finally the costumed assistant. Originally, the Screen of Life Illusion of Charles Waller made from PVC Pipes was going in this place. Jim later realized that this Giant Temple Screen was a much improved and simplified version, but for die-hard historians, he has left in the original instructions and diagrams for the Waller Illusion, which explain how this really does the same thing but in a much easier way.
8 Elastic Box
Illusion
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The big empty gift box rises, floats, rotates 360 degrees and then lands to make a costumed assistant appear from inside the "empty" box. The Wiz Kids toured with this in their Christmas shows beginning in 1983. It is revealed here for the first time.
