This video is a gift. Beyond its practical advice, the essential point about the respectful, joyful encounter that can happen in these spaces is priceless. Thanks.

Interesting to consider.🤔

Thanks for the excellent tip (no pun intended).

This dude seems entitled and he’s tripping out

Thanks david..that was very informative and interesting

There is another one called "Hyrum The Haunted Hanky!" I believe it also uses the same gimmick.. and I agree Gloroy/Hyrum is an Amazing trick!

It's funny, today I saw your video, and last night I had the pleasure of performing a bit of bizarre magic in a pub, more or less spontaneously. The killer effect? You know it-yes, the haunted hanky, lucklyI had one in my "magic emergency box" in my car. This morning, the owner of the bar called me to ask if I could perform it again in the evening. As a pure amateur magician with a penchant for the bizarre, requests like this are truly delightful. I performed a version of the Vince Wilson Routine who added a Okito Voodoo Doll to the scene. (Btw: a child proof version is producing "Wurly Worm" out of the Hanky)

I had a Glorpy the Gurkulating Ghost. 👻. Still have it. Still wonderful. 😮

He was the most prolific beneficiary of MK ULTRA sub projects. Good at his craft, I'd say.

Depending on the construction method, a PK ring can work fantastically well with a Glorpy (not going to reveal methods, but have a play and you'll see what I mean). BTW, David, did you get the email I sent you a week or two ago?

I have "Spooky The Spirit Silk" in the original envelope. I bought it from Tannens. $3.50, instructions and illustrations copyright 1974 by Louis Tannen Inc.

What a fun coincidence, I was just about to make my own hankerchief today! Or rather it will be a bloody rag, no one carries hankerchiefs anymore. While Max Maven's presentation is really nice, I feel like it plays too much on old magic clichés. I'm looking for something that makes more sense, a way to make the physical manifestation of the movement less human. Perhaps making something dead alive again by restoring a torn piece of origami or unrotting something. Anyway, really nice video, I will check out the references!

Haunted Hank is a great magical piece. I use it in some of my parlor shows. Thanks for sharing the history of this great magic prop David. Happy New Year to you and your family.

Hi David - Happy New Year - I 100% agree with you, for entertainment purposes the Card Duck is easily the best card trick ever 😍 And I believe those of us who perform one of the many ducks available feel the same way. Great job and thanks for spreading the word about the amazing Card Duck effect.

Do you own Harry lorayne apocolypse magazine ? I was told it’s on par with the likes of Tarbell course

This used to appear on weekend late night TV every now and then when I was a young boy......many years later with the advent of the internet I was able to finally rediscover it and watch it regularly.....great movie, really good performances. Very much a personal favourite.

If you watch the show His name is in the end credit

You know this day would came anyway at some point, was it Valentino or not - Then some other guy would have done it. It was inevitable, it was destined to happen and break old walls. Valentino isn't guilty what was about happen anyway.

I am a magician for more than fifty years. I specialize in close up and parlor magic. But I do know how some stage illusions methods are done in various ways. I also enjoy the show Magic: Breaking The Magician’s Code. Yet, I have to admit I forget how most of the stuff revealed was done. (Heck, I even forget how some of the tricks I learned and performed was done if I didn’t do them consistently. The mind is perishable. It forgets. I remember as a young magician. Tom Ladshaw told me that he performs the same tricks night after night and gets repeat spectators and most of them don’t remember some of the tricks that they saw the night before. So, there you go! No need to worry about exposure. People forget!

Great review. Like your enthusiasm and thoughtful assessments of the book. This is one I will look at more closely. Thank you.

I met Ali Bongo back in the late 70’s at an IBM convention. His style of performance had significant influence on me. Thank you for taking the time to focus on him.

IIRC, our fave Doug Henning performed the Sidewalk Shuffle on the infamous Doug Henning's World of Magic IV special.

Thanks David, I would like to hear some actual readings from each of the books (and author reviews) you review so we get a taste of the essence of the book please. You are introducing to us what seems to be many fine books and I am truly grateful. Bless you.

Great review I have the two pamphlets “Do you the stuff thats you” and “Do the stuff thats you 2” time for a reread - thanks so much David.

What do you think of the magic of Al Koran by Martin breese

Karl is the best in my opinion. Spent his life around magic. Thanks for sharing.

A great review David 🙌👍

On the list it goes! Thanks for the review David.

Love the channel! So nice to have a channel that talks about the greats

Ok here’s food for thought. Things can be cyclical. In comedy repetition is funny until it becomes boring. But if you keep pushing it anyway, it eventually becomes funny again. Maybe more so. For a while at least. Maybe too perfect is absolutely a thing up to a point, beyond which the level of impossibility is so great, that it becomes wondrous again. Would go some way towards explaining the apparent diversity of opinion. And of course everyone’s threshold will be different. Dependant on their experience and personality. Happy Christmas!

My Dad knew Malo. He showed me a trick when I was six years old.

Ali Bongo was a TV magician from my childhood (UK), that I remember well- a fun magician.

Makes sense! Thanks.

Please turn up your mic.

I love Wayne in fact I’m seeing him tomorrow such a dear friend ❤

Interesting on the too perfect theory..merry christmas david to you and yours

What a coincidence, just last night I watched a video with a comedian talking about David Copperfield's Statue of Liberty illusion.and that it was funny David wore a trenchcoat and walked with a limp :) Can't remember now where I saw it.

So many die during performances or I say doing what they love. It kind of makes sense. Your heart's pumping faster and the body is reacting to the excitement. Can't be good for the spectators though.

I remember as a kid having "The Bongo Book" on my wanted list. Never did end up getting it.

I read the book even though I don't really do restaurants except for a couple of times years ago. I do agree this is easily the best book on the subject. However, with regards to the tipping methods he describes he does explain that this is what he did when he first started but doesn't need to do it any more. He seemed to say that he is given the tips now without having to hustle for it because of the reputation he has built up over the years.

I met Ali Bongo many times too, he was practically always at the Circle back in the day and he was a true gent, always willing to chat and brainstorm magic, no matter the level of the person. It was a great loss to the magic community when he died.

I believe it was Rick Johnson who came up with the idea of the “too perfect theory”. And Ali Bongo was the ideas man behind the David Nixon show and Paul Daniels magic Show. And he was adviser of “Jonathon creek “ series in U.K. And Ali Bongo book was one of my fist books when getting into magic.

If you ever do a long-johns trick, I'm gonna suggest they're hidden up your sleeves. ;) Thx Mr Dellman!

As always great information David. Ali Bongo was indeed a wonderful entertainer, I'm just sorry I never got to see him perform live. Hope you and your family have a blessed Christmas.

If you have OCD, you'll be figuring out a response to everything that could go wrong before you perform :)

Another blunder was the infamous Harry Blackstone Jr half time show at the 1987 Orange Bowl. Harry dropped a rabbit, illusions malfunctioned, and the Orange Bowl Queen got her cape caught in an illusion and was stuck. The ending pyrotechnics didn't look right, they looked like they were on fire. Lack of proper rehearsal could be blamed for much of it. This one became infamous once social media became prominent and the tape could be shown again, years after the fact.

Magicpedia: On December 14, 1978 Doug Henning's World of Magic IV (Brooke Shields/Tom Bosley) aired with the theme "A Magical Journey Through Time." The show is fraught with problems. Doug placed a foot in a trap and then fell off a table, illusions misfired, and tigers escaped backstage swallowing a menagerie of baby chicks and ducks that was supposed to be the touching finale. Because of these problems, this was the last Henning special broadcast live. Doug actually mentions that tigers can be a problem during the show (after they had wreaked havoc)

The story of Revelations hits somewhat close to home. It's a strange tale that I would like to know the hows and whys of it. I had heard about the recordings at the time and I have them now but it was such a strange place for the recording to be made and the man who made it. Courtesy Browser's Den of Magic: History was made September 2-6, 1982 in a filming studio in St. John's, Newfoundland, as the life and magic of Dai Vernon was recorded for future generations. Inspired by Bill Larsen, the project was undertaken by Videonics, owned and operated by magician Hans Zahn. The co-hosts of the filming project were Michael Ammar, Gary Ouellet and Steve Freeman.

this book is pure gold so many usable routines

Great video! I am going to try this, starting today. I have had a productivity problem for several months now. I believe this will help me out tremendously.