Watch as the Magician makes a hanky dance all around and even go into a glass bottle and still dance around... a clever secret not fully understood by many who watch it!!!
#35 The Dancing Hanky Illusion
Uses these Magical Procedures: Special Props, Misdirection, Background Music
The trick is done with a specially made apparatus, which the Magician holds with his right hand underneath the cloth... it has a spring reel on it with Magician's Thread (thin, invisible strong thread) which can be controlled by the Magician's finger, allowing the thread to extend out or reel in...
The apparatus has a flexable long extended thin wire at it's end, at the tip the thread can be quickly connected to the hanky so it can be made to move back and forth like it is "dancing"... it is controlled by a tiny battery operated motor at it's base (which has a computer programmable chip in it, allowing the movements to be pre-set in any sequence desirable by the Magician!
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Whenever the Magician wants, he can allow the hanky to be pulled from the spring reel to extend it a distance, like when it is placed into the bottle, or dropped to the floor and then he still controls it from the apparatus underneath the cloth...
Great care must be exercised to PRACTICE beforehand so that all action
seems "natural" to spectators...