When a magician is constructing a magic performance routine, what can he do besides searching magic books, shops and videos? The ultimate method of adding the desired effect is to decide what to use and to invent a method of accomplishing it. This, of course, occurs seldom. It is a tiresome, tedious, arduous mental process. And most magicians do not care for mental processes, even those of minor difficulty.

This type of invention is largely hit or miss. It relies to a great extent upon luck and inspiration. But if this inventor had ever tried marshaling all of the possible methods, his difficulties would have been simplified considerably. Really, there are not many basic ways of accomplishing a magical appearance.

Generally, a production, or an appearance, is an effect in which the aspect to the spectator is the materialization of something or someone. This appearance may be either gradual or instantaneous. It may take place out in the open, uncovered, or back of, or within or beneath something. It is essential, of course that the effect be accomplished without apparent reasonable physical causation. As it appears to the spectator, the performer may just be standing in sight and suddenly he may be seen holding something, something which was not visible a moment before. Or an object may become visible at a place removed from the magician. Or the entertainer may take something from a place previously shown empty.

Again, the magician apparently might catch something on the end of some object he may be holding, such as a wand, a fish line, or a net. A particularly impressive appearance is that during which an object or a person seems to materialize gradually from thin air, becoming first a nebulous outline which slowly takes on more and more opaque substance. Close to this type of production is the one where a nucleus is seen to develop into the object finally produced.

Right at the start, in discussing appearances let it be clearly realized that no magician can create anything. Therefore, the subject of the eventual production must be hidden somewhere. The problem, then, becomes one of arranging a suitable hiding place and devising a method of getting the subject from that place of concealment to the place of production in such a manner that the subject will seem to be produced magically. It is a matter of concealing the subject in a hiding place incorporated in the place of production, or concealing its acquirement and conveyance from a more or less removed place of concealment. Practically all of these productions are accomplished through one or a combination or a variation of a comparative few basic principles. The most elemental of all production methods comes to mind instantly. Concealed within the clothing worn by the performer is the object to be produced.

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