Book & Video Library - Videos - Tarbell Course in Magic, Volume 1

Category: Videos

Hits: 0

Lent status: Available

Availability: 1/1

Review

Written by Tim Pendergast

There is no one in any magic club who has not at some time or another learned from Dr. Tarbell. There are many who lay the credit for their entire professions to the Tarbell Course, that vast storehouse of magical knowledge, painstakingly illustrated in great detail, with a text so crystal clear in simple English that students were doing the tricks almost as they read about them. Dr. Tarbell had two great God-given talents that fitted in perfectly with his acquired talent of magic-he drew like an angel and he wrote with amazing clarity.
Dr. Tarbell was a genius in creating, solving and demonstrating mysteries. The things you know cannot be done-Dr. Tarbell did. He made mystery not only an art but a science. He puzzled the magician as well as the layman. At an early age, Dr. Tarbell realized the strange power that mystery held over man and how it shaped his destiny. He saw how legends lived when facts died and how illusion too often looked more like truth than truth itself.

CONTENTS
Frontispiece
Dedication
Contents
It's a Privilege
Preface
The Magician's Secrets

Lesson 1-The History of Magic

Lesson 2-Magic as a Science

Lesson 3-Sleight of Hand with Coins
Palming Methods
Coin Holds
Vanishing Methods
Disposal of Secreted Coins
Change-over Palms

Lesson 4-Coin Tricks
The Dissolving Coin
Vanishing Coin in Handkerchief
Coin Through Handkerchief
Copper or Silver Penetration
"Pencil" Coin Vanish and Reappearance

Lesson 5-More Coin Tricks
Joe Berg's Miracle Coin Vanish
Coin, Envelope and Handkerchief
Vanishing a Coin Wrapped in Paper
Homing Coins
Invisible Money Transit
Multiplying Money Tray
Newspaper as a Money Tray

Lesson 6-The Thumb Tip
Burning Cigarette Mystery
Asbestos Palm
Burning a Borrowed Handkerchief
Enchanted Paper
Comedy Interlude
Passe-Passe Salt

Lesson 7-Impromptu Tricks
Penetrating Ring
Jumping Rubber Band
Metal Ring on String
Patriotic Rings and String
Penetrative Cigar Band
Vanishing Ring on String
Cut and Restored Cord Effects
Kellar's Cut Cord
Germain's Cord Effect
Impromptu Cut Cord Effect

Lesson 8-Ball Tricks
Cups and Balls
Three Wandering Sponge Balls
Four Traveling Balls
Patriotic Paper Balls

Lesson 9- Mathematical Mysteries
Traveling Numbers
Spirit Mathematics
Numbers on the Arm
Rapid Banking

Lesson 10-Effective Card Mysteries
Guide to Card Positions
Rising Card Escape
Sealed Card Mystery
The Slip Change
Psychological Impossibility
Hindu Color Changing Deck

Lesson 11-Eight Impromptu Card Mysteries
Joe Berg's "Count Down" Mystery
Tenkai's Reverse Card
Royal Card Discovery
Birds of a Feather
Card at Selected Number
Change-About Card
Find the Burglar
Selected Cards from Spectator's Pocket

Lesson 12-Mental Card Mysteries
Al Baker's "Twin Souls"
You Do as I Do
Baffling Discovery
Thought Location
Card in Pocket
Card Clock Dial
Thoughtful Joker
"Sense of Touch" Discovery
Hardin's Cards in Hat

Lesson 13-Card Sleights
Passes
False Shuffles
False Cuts
The Force

Lesson 14-Novel Card Mysteries
"Snap It"
Card and Orange
Devil's Letter
Bewitched Banana

Lesson 15-Restoring Torn Papers
Chinese Paper Mystery
Winter-Time in China, also Tenkai's Method
Japanese Torn and Restored Napkins
Hindu Paper Tearing
Milady's Parisienne Hat

Lesson 16-The Rope and Tape Principle
Coats, Tapes and Rings
Coat, Ropes and Rings
Prisoner's Escape
Magic Orange
Walking Through Tapes
Another Tape Release

Lesson 17-Handkerchief Tricks
Wandering Handkerchief
Silk and the Flame
Candle, Silk and Paper Tube
Elusive Silks
The Changing Bag

Lesson 18-Knotty Silks
Mystic Knots
Instantaneous One-hand Knot
Pull-Away Single Knot
Dissolving Single Knot
Speedy Single Knot
Fade-Away Double Knot
Nu-Way Double Knot
Quick Release Double Knot
Leg Tie and Release
Magical Bow Knot
Chair Tie and Release
Educated Knot
Sympathetic Silks
Tommy Dowd's Silk Penetration
Al Baker's Handkerchief Through Arm
Phantom Knots

Lesson 19-Eggs and Silks
Egg, Glass and Handkerchief
An Eggs-Traodinary Eggs-Planation
"Sucker" Handkerchief Vanish
One-Man Handkerchief Vanish
Repeat Handkerchief Vanish

Donated by Cody Landstrom

Date insert: Friday, 02 June 2023

Alexandria Book Library