Camirand Academy's Masters Of Magic Series
This is your chance
to learn some classics of magic like a Ring On String routine, the
Three Shell Game, Coins Through The Table, a Two Cup & Ball routine,
a Torn & Restored Card, and much more magic and sleight of hand
with cards and coins.
The Masters Of Magic Series was released
between 1979-1986 and featured outstanding close-up routines. These were
polished full routines that could be presented as theatrical pieces or
used for informal close-up shows.The booklets were published by the
Camirand Academy of Magic and featured detailed writing by Gary Ouellet
and a massive number of photographs by Guy Camirand making them very
easy to learn from and to master.
Routines include:
Finger On The Card: This
is the card routine that launched the Camirand Academy. It is a sucker
type effect where a card is selected. Two cards are used to identify its
color and suit and one of them is placed under the spectator's finger.
The spectator is surprised that you did not know that the card under
their finger is their selection. You then have them try to find their
card in the deck. Amazingly the card they find is their selection which
causes them to immediately check under their finger where a completely
different card now resides.
Supershells: Considered
one of the best three shell game routines, that influenced many of the
routines that professionals currently use. Includes many different
phases, variations, and an impossible ending. You are also taught how to
make your own shells.
The Silver Passage: A coins
through the table routine with some visual vanishes and penetrations
and an added element of a small mirror which gets the credit for the
coins melting through.
The Two Goblets: Using two
cups from a cups and balls combination set you perform a series of
excellent and impossible looking sequences where a ball penetrates,
vanishes, appears, and transposes. For the finale, three huge balls
appear.
Threshold: Although several different card
routines and techniques are taught the main routine is a sit-down torn
and restored card where the the double-signed card is torn into four
pieces, one corner is held as a receipt, and the other pieces fuse
together.
The Homing Ring: A multiphase ring off
rope routine where a finger ring repeatedly escapes after being tied to a
rope and re-appears on your finger.
Eric DeCamps' The Coin Connection: A
stand-up coin routine where three silver coins vanish to reappear in a
purse. They then invisibly travel from hand to hand, converted into
foreign coins, dropped back into the coin purse only to revert into
their original silver coins.
Meir Yedid's Royal Takeover: A
beautifully displayed routine where three cards are selected and found
to be Aces. The three Aces visually change into a Royal Flush and
everything is examinable.
The above routine descriptions are
just the themes and main effects taught. Each section is full of
variations, alternate phases, and many techniques. This book can act as a
course in intermediate to advanced close-up magic.
First Softcover Edition. Written by Gary Ouellet. Published by Meir Yedid Magic in 2023.
8.5"x11" softcover, with 272-pages, and more than 580-photographs.
