Price$29.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedApr 18, 2006
Classic Studebaker DVD
Peter Studebaker
(Based on 1 review)
Featuring -
- The definitive handling on Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper.
- Lotto Cash, the logical paper to money effect that will draw gasps.
- Chicago Universal, the card effect that Peter uses at every trade show.
- Rollover Aces, a simplified handling of a reputation making effect.
- Plus more practical and easy cocktail and trade show routines.
In this intimate DVD, you will see Peter demonstrate his pet routines flawlessly, at the same time imparting the methodological and performing philosophies that have carried him to the very top of his field.
His routines are practical and effective to entertain. In this DVD he reveals his pet routines. No "pipe dreams" here, these are solid, workable, entertaining routines suitable for laymen, yet many will fool well posted magicians. Most of the methods are easy and accessible. Now you can see and learn reputation building effects from a top professional.
Lotto Cash - a handful of lottery tickets changes instantly into a handful of money! This a new twist to change paper into cash. Strong visual with an emotional impact.
I.R.D. (Information Retrieval Device) - a killer version of Triumph using a rubber-banded deck! A strong commercial card trick suitable for cocktail walk around and Corporate Trade Show environment.
Longhorn Paper Tear - An ultra clean thorn and restored cigarette paper. The cleanest handling of all. Can be performed surrounded.
Chain Letter - a multiple card prediction that is a real commercial stunner (one of the most commercial frameworks ever devised for Bob Hummer's cunning Exclusion Principle)
Chicago Universal - Part Rising Deck, part Chicago Opener, part Red Hot Mamma, this is an excellent example of real-world routining!
Plus Card In Matchbox, Peter's Elevator, Peter's Rollover Aces, Thoughts on the Squeaker Gimmick, and so much more! Every effect is richly structured to negate any and all dead-time, and filled with the kind of handling touches that elevate simple tricks to the level of stand-alone showpieces!
This DVD contains a bonus "bit of business" section that will enhance your presentation with comedy and laughter.
CLASSIC STUDEBAKER is overflowing with real-world magic from one of its finest purveyors!
Running Time Approximately 1hr 30min
Reviews
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With nothing more on its stark, white cover than the title and a few short lines of description, Classic Studebaker looks, at first glance, like a DVD you’d find behind the beaded curtain in your local video store. Fortunately, I’m happy to say that, at no point during this lecture does Peter Studebaker either get naked or have sex, a fact which is even more appreciated when one realizes the only other person on the set is Guy Camirand.
But what about the tricks? There’s some good news there too. Classic Studebaker, originally released on video in 2000, features 9 routines (and a few other bits o’ business) crafted and refined by a full-time corporate entertainer who clearly knows what makes his audience (i.e., businessmen) tick. Highlights (for me) include:
In addition, Peter teaches (but does not vary) Bob Hummer’s brilliant exclusion-principle routine (renamed “Chain Letter” on this DVD after a gag Peter employs to introduce the prediction); Nate Leipzig’s torn-and-restored cigarette paper (with well-known handling touches by Martin Lewis and Michael Skinner); an old method for making a deck rise out of the cardcase (which Peter uses not as a centerpiece, but merely as a way to get into the card portion of his act); a hybrid card trick combining Ed Marlo’s Universal Card gimmick with Al Leech’s “Red Hot Momma;” and a handling for Derek Dingle’s “Rollover Aces.”
Over the course of these routines, you will also learn a handful of sleights that range from fairly easy (Reverse Double Undercut) to reasonably difficult (Zarrow Shuffle), with the bulk falling somewhere in between (e.g., Riffle Force, Swing Cut, Vernon’s Double Lift, Vernon’s Depth Illusion, and a one-handed get-ready for the Depth Illusion that Peter came up with independently, but was in fact first published by Jon Racherbaumer in the March, 1971 issue of Kabbala).
For my money (ignoring the fact that I got this DVD for free), I find the most valuable material on here to be the routines that were designed specifically for corporate work (e.g., “Lotto Cash,” “I.R.D.”). Apart from that, if you’re not familiar with the Hummer trick, or Leipzig’s torn-and-restored cigarette paper, or Rollover Aces, or any of the other popular plots Peter employs, you will certainly find his performances and explanations entertaining and illuminating.
David Acer
But what about the tricks? There’s some good news there too. Classic Studebaker, originally released on video in 2000, features 9 routines (and a few other bits o’ business) crafted and refined by a full-time corporate entertainer who clearly knows what makes his audience (i.e., businessmen) tick. Highlights (for me) include:
- LOTTO CASH, one of the best (maybe the best) possible openers for walkaround corporate work, in which a handful of lottery tickets suddenly changes into an even bigger handful of cash. Peter has altered Fred Kaps’ “Flash Cash” gimmick (which in turn is based on Pat Page’s “Easy Money”) in a way that makes the change look more magical, and allows you to perform it with paper that isn’t necessarily the same size as your bills.
- I.R.D., an inspired version of Triumph in which the deck is referred to as a computer and the rubber band removed from around it is called an Information Retrieval Device. A card is chosen and returned to the pack, whereupon said pack is “randomized,” first by overhand shuffling, then by riffle shuffling half the deck face up into the other, face-down half. The I.R.D. (rubber band) is wrapped around the pack, and after a few seconds, it pops off the deck holding only one card - the selection! Moreover, on its way through, it apparently righted the rest of the deck, as all the cards are now facing the same way.
- CARD IN MATCHBOX, a John Scarne-like trick, based on a John Carney routine, with minimal sleights, maximum impact, and a presentation that aggrandizes a match being used as a wand in a funny way.
- PETER’S ELEVATOR, a handling for Ed Marlo’s classic effect based on a version by France’s Bebel. The Ace, Two and Three of Spades are removed from the pack, then the Ace and Two are each re-inserted into the deck, whereupon they rise to the top and are dealt face down to the table. The Three of Spades is then inserted into the deck, but when the top card is turned over, it proves to be the Three of Hearts. As it turns out, this is not a problem, since the two face-down tabled cards are now turned over, showing them to be the Ace and Two of Hearts.
In addition, Peter teaches (but does not vary) Bob Hummer’s brilliant exclusion-principle routine (renamed “Chain Letter” on this DVD after a gag Peter employs to introduce the prediction); Nate Leipzig’s torn-and-restored cigarette paper (with well-known handling touches by Martin Lewis and Michael Skinner); an old method for making a deck rise out of the cardcase (which Peter uses not as a centerpiece, but merely as a way to get into the card portion of his act); a hybrid card trick combining Ed Marlo’s Universal Card gimmick with Al Leech’s “Red Hot Momma;” and a handling for Derek Dingle’s “Rollover Aces.”
Over the course of these routines, you will also learn a handful of sleights that range from fairly easy (Reverse Double Undercut) to reasonably difficult (Zarrow Shuffle), with the bulk falling somewhere in between (e.g., Riffle Force, Swing Cut, Vernon’s Double Lift, Vernon’s Depth Illusion, and a one-handed get-ready for the Depth Illusion that Peter came up with independently, but was in fact first published by Jon Racherbaumer in the March, 1971 issue of Kabbala).
For my money (ignoring the fact that I got this DVD for free), I find the most valuable material on here to be the routines that were designed specifically for corporate work (e.g., “Lotto Cash,” “I.R.D.”). Apart from that, if you’re not familiar with the Hummer trick, or Leipzig’s torn-and-restored cigarette paper, or Rollover Aces, or any of the other popular plots Peter employs, you will certainly find his performances and explanations entertaining and illuminating.
David Acer