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Reel Magic
John Albenice

Reel Magic

N. Louis (1941)
10
Hardcover
145 pages | eng
Dewey 793.8
LC Classification GV1559.A55

Genre

  • Conjuring

Subject

  • Magic tricks

Plot

Albenice: Reel Magic
©1941 Nat Louis
1st Ed: Hardcover, 55 pages

Comments: Edited by Ralph W. Read. Also published by D. Robbins & Co., Inc. The subsequent editions include an Addenda that Albenice developed after the publication of the original 1941 edition.

Contents:

Frontispiece
Foreword
From the Publisher

13 Chapter 1 Knot Effects with Handkerchiefs
13 The Serpent Silk
15 Visible Self-Tying Silk
16 The Naughty Knot
18 A Suggested Routine with the Vanishing Cane and Handkerchief
18 Visible "40th Century" Silks

21 Chapter II Penetration Effects with Handkerchiefs
23 Penetro
25 Spalding's Penetrable Silk

27 Chapter III Color Changes with Silks
29 A Smart Color Change
30 The Quack Rabbit

31 Chapter IV
33 Card on Ribbon
35 Rising Cards Through the Air

37 Chapter V Miscellaneous Tricks
39 Button, Button, Who's Got the Button
40 The Magnetized Wand
41 Ring Up, Ring Down
42 Sight and Touch Vanish
43 Flying Dollar Bill
44 The Elusive Bill

45 Chapter VI The Thorton Windlass
47 Flying Dollar Bill Across a Room
47 Balancing a Chair on Two Legs
48 Buatier De Kolta's Card Fountain
48 The Floating Cigar
50 The Dancing Handkerchief

51 Chapter VII The Lightning Pull
53 Lamp Chimney and Silk
54 The Vanishing Bird Cage
55 The Flying Ring

57 Addenda
58 Improved, Visible "40th Century" Silks
66 The Penetrable Silk
70 The Effects (Basic Principles)
75 The Effects (Advanced Principles)
82 Routined Act
82 Notes

Personal

Owner Bryan-Keith Taylor
Location Magic Library (Home)
Index 3759
Added Date Jul 01, 2017 03:06:49
Modified Date Apr 06, 2026 14:20:58

Value

Book Condition Near Mint

Notes

A notable publication, the first devoted to tricks using the secret device known as a reel. Fourty-four illustrations.

John Albenice (b.1913-d.1957) was an American nightclub magician and author.

Contents
1 Biography
2 Contributions
3 Books
4 References

Biography
Albenice's magic interest began when he was 14 and began to specialize in magic with reels. He toured both North and South America.

Albenice was internationally known for several of his creations sold by dealers.

He died of a heart at the Ambassador Hotel in New York City five minutes before he was ready to start his act, "Albenice and His Baby Chicks".

According to Dai Vernon in his Vernon Touch column for Genii 1982 March, Albenice originated the card or coin falling through a table into a person's hand.

Contributions
Serpent Silk
Arabian Beads
Rising Card Houlette on Ribbon
Many of his silk magic inventions are described in Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic
Selected Card Vanishes Into Pocket in Scarne on Card Tricks (1950)

Books
Reel Magic (1941)

References
Linking Ring, Vol. 37, January 1958 - Broken Wand
http://death-records.mooseroots.com/l/104267079/John-Albenice