Price$9.00
Media TypeTrick
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedNov 17, 2003
Belanger Cigarette Thru Quarter
Belanger, Paul
Camirand Academy of Magic
(Based on 1 review)
- A borrowed cigarette is caused to penetrate a borrowed quarter in a stunningly visual, utterly impossible manner!
Both the quarter and cigarette can be shown from all sides during the penetration! - With many thousand sold since its release in 1984, this is still the finest handling for one of close-up magic?s most memorable effects!
- Tips: if you do not smoke roll up a dollar bill in the shape of a cigarette and make it penetrate the quarter.
Comes complete with gimmick and photo-illustrated instructions, written by Gary Ouellet, including a bonus section featuring Gary?s own handling for the routine!
Reviews
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"While there are many versions of the Cigarette Through Quarter currently available, the Paul Belanger gimmick is preferred by no small number of working pros for the simple reason that it does away with complex gadgetry in favor of inspired handling. If you have a chance to see it performed by such expert proponents as Paul Belanger, Gary Ouellet or Richard Sanders, you will know that you have witnessed a true close-up miracle."
I wrote these words in The Close-Up Assassin (1998), and dammit, I meant them! The Belanger gimmick is just a quarter with a hole in it, but with it comes a devious method for switching out the borrowed quarter, a lovely, magical approach to the penetration, and a beautiful technique for the restoration, all at one third the price of its more mechanical counterparts.
Moreover, if you're interested in exploring further techniques using the coin, Richard Sanders tips two lovely restorations in The Close-Up Assassin and Gary Ouellet reveals his knock-out handling in Close-Up Illusions (Ouellet, 1990).
David Acer
I wrote these words in The Close-Up Assassin (1998), and dammit, I meant them! The Belanger gimmick is just a quarter with a hole in it, but with it comes a devious method for switching out the borrowed quarter, a lovely, magical approach to the penetration, and a beautiful technique for the restoration, all at one third the price of its more mechanical counterparts.
Moreover, if you're interested in exploring further techniques using the coin, Richard Sanders tips two lovely restorations in The Close-Up Assassin and Gary Ouellet reveals his knock-out handling in Close-Up Illusions (Ouellet, 1990).
David Acer