![]() The steel ball through glass trick revealed and explained in this article is a small wooden box. It could be similar to Ali Bongo‘s “ Die Through The Mirror” trick, as exposed in this video.įor more detail of this old steel ball through glass trick go to Martin’s Magic Collection. This vintage prop was also called “ Steel Ball Through Glass” sold by Kanter’s Magic Shop, and it was also manufactured by Davenports, and advertised as “ The Miracle Steel Ball Thro’ Glass”.īy the way, I think the secret of this “ The Miracle Steel Ball Thro’ Glass” is by using a false movable bottom. Take note: This steel ball through glass magic trick revealed is not the 1930s rectangle flat wooden box version by John Snyder, Jr. My presumption how this trick is done is solely by viewing the various video clips from the Internet, and study the pictures of the prop from magic shop websites, Amazon, eBay and Etsy. In addition, I recommend online resources of free e-books on magic tricks and conjuring. I include the rationale and ingenuity behind the prop design, the trick and the effect. It is a combination of both the reveal and review of the magic trick. I have never seen this actual close-up magic prop, and this so-called reveal is actually my own guesswork. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.For the first time, the secrets of the steel ball through glass revealed in full detail on how it is done. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. ![]() NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. SHAPIRO: And so at least for now some of the magic remains.Ĭopyright © 2018 NPR. The secret of how the people were no longer in the box has not been revealed. RICHARD KAUFMAN: You can see under that illusion, above the illusion, on both sides of the box. And he says we may have learned about the passageways, but that's just one part of the act. He has seen the lucky number 13 trick up close. Richard Kaufman, editor of Genii, the nation's oldest magic magazine, says not so fast. To me it reveals their genius.ĬHANG: But wait. He is also a senior producer at Morning Edition.īARRY GORDEMER, BYLINE: I very much come from the school that revealing how magicians do their tricks is not damaging. We wanted to know, what's at stake for a magician once the bunny's out of the hat? So we asked resident NPR magician Barry Gordemer. Now he has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Copperfield and the resort. He says he fell and got hurt during the mad dash through those passageways, racking up thousands of dollars in medical bills. And that allows them to make their grand reappearance in the back of the theater.ĬHANG: The lucky number 13, however, proved unlucky for this plaintiff. In court, Copperfield's attorneys acknowledged that once the participants leave the stage, they are funneled through passageways that snake through the MGM Grand Resort. Spoiler alert - we are about to give away the trick. Then moments later, the 13 audience members appear in the back of the theater. The cabinet gets suspended in the air and then covered by a giant curtain.ĬHANG: And when that curtain lifts, abracadabra, those people are gone. SHAPIRO: Those 13 people get seated inside a big cabinet. SHAPIRO: The trick in question is called lucky number 13.ĭAVID COPPERFIELD: Now we're going to take 13 men and women from the audience - you will be selected at random - and make you disappear. And the man says he got injured while participating in a magic trick. It happened in a Las Vegas courtroom under oath.ĬHANG: Copperfield is being sued by a guy who attended one of his shows back in 2013. He did not make this big reveal by choice. Yes, we are talking about David Copperfield. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: And now the man who made the Statue of Liberty disappear and walk through the Great Wall of China. ![]() Well, one of the world's most famous magicians has just broken that rule. A good magician never reveals his secrets.
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