Vanishing Magic Tricks That Use A Pull
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The famous vanishing birdcage magic trick is well known for its visually stunning effect. A magician holds a solid birdcage between his palms and shows it to the audience. People are allowed to touch the cage and prove that it is real. But then they are reminded to pay close attention to the cage and do not blink because it happens in a split second. The magician counts one, two and three! The cage is vanished in front of people’s naked eyes without a trace. Magician Clarence Slyter was known for making this amazing trick even better in terms of the handling.
The trick is done by pulling a string attached to the compressible birdcage very quickly up the sleeve so that the cage is hidden in the sleeve. Slyter did the trick with an arm pull, too. One of the biggest challenges of the trick is the length of the pulling string. If it is too long, you would not be able to pull the cage strong enough or fast enough. If it is too short, the cage is not free enough to move and feels stiff and unnatural. Slyter handled that with a reel which can be activated to shorten excessive string when needed.
We cannot overlook the elastic pull used to vanish a handkerchief. This is a pear shaped container used with a length of cord elastic. When the handkerchief is stuffed into the container it may be caused to vanish by merely releasing the container. The elastic pulls it out of sight. The elastic pull has been used for vanishing coins, decks of cards, color-change reels, watches, pencils, wooden cigars, cigarette fakes, balls, eggs. Frequently you will find the rubber attached to some queer-looking thing that acts as a holder of the object to be vanished. But the vanish depends upon the pulling power in the stretched elastic as anyone can verify who has ever stood in front of an audience and discovered that age has at last caught up with the elasticity.
Classic magicians wearing tux on stages have been using this same principle for ages. One example is the Chimney Vanish. A colored silk is placed inside a transparent tube. The tube is shown to the spectators with the silk clearly visible inside. The magician shouts ‘hoop!’ and the silk is gone. This is elegant but not as magical as David Blaine.
Many pulls were invented to vanish objects. In this trick, a so-called Flash Pull is used. The pull is a mechanical device powered by a strong spring. A retraction reel is used to retract some loops of string. The string can be pulled out from the reel and is automatically retracted upon release. Usually a button is also built in to hold the string at a certain length. And when needed the button is pushed and the handkerchief attached would fly back to the reel, which is usually hidden inside the sleeve.
The conventional square cage is not the only object that has been vanished by means of a pull in the sleeve. There have been round cages, lamps and other large objects, all collapsible, which have gone up the sleeve powered by the arm pull. The exact reverse of the old decanter trick, the spider web and many other appearances can be made to apply to similar vanishes. So may be reversed also adaptations of the several gravity applications, or the revolving panel.
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