Tricks of the Trade (by Professor Warren)

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

611

Date Released

16 Feb 1933

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - sleight of hand trick in close up by the magician Professor John Warren.
British Pathe synopsis: "Here’s an easy one for you to amuse the youngsters with, after dinner. Just a cigarette paper - " C/U of Professor Warren’s hands as he tears up a cigarette paper and rolls it into a ball. He then appears to open it out again intact. The magician demonstrates how the trick is done. He rolls it into a ball and places it in between the first and middle finger of his hand. He then tears up the other piece of paper. He pulls out the rolled up piece and prepositions it so that he can unravel it, he then drops the ball which he has made of the torn up bits on the table. Very clever. We don’t see his face, just his hands. Incomplete.

Keywords

Performing arts

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.255
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP255
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p269.
National Film Archive Catalogue

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