I was very lucky to meet Dai Vernon (only once) in 1981 in Melbourne, Australia. He signed my copy of his book Dai Vernon Book of Magic.

To Finndigg: He may not have had much money when he died, but he had many friends and the undying admiration of every magician on earth!

I was very fortunate to have known Dai Vernon. In 1975 my wife and I joined the Magic Castle, my wife was a beautiful Korean woman just oozing with charisma. She would dress in Korean traditional dress and Dai was fascinated with her. Her name was Shim and the professor called her princes which stuck for 30 yrs., she was always billed as Princess Shim. The second we would enter the Castle and glance at Dai in the love seat he would say, Princess come sit with me, how lucky could I be I got to sit across from Dai watch his magic, and listen to end wonderful stories. One night at a card table she actually fooled him for about three seconds, then he smiled and said, there's only one way. Dai was a humble man, one night I was taking a pain pill at the love seat. Dai says, what's that for? I said it's for my back pain (I had a surgery). Dai said, I've never taken a pill in my life. I said, not even a aspirin? He said, you have to have a brain to get a headache. I never forgot that, and now it's 2017.

@suchapill3077

4 жыл бұрын

Art Johnson Fantastic memories.

@Kevin-fu5qc

2 жыл бұрын

Now I have more questions than when I started reading

@albertseloover897

2 жыл бұрын

♥️♥️

@younesmohssen8158

Жыл бұрын

@@Kevin-fu5qc 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@luigibianchi5132

Жыл бұрын

Did he f.uck your wife?

watching this in 2021 magic , mentalism changed to the worst to many informations no real magiciens/mentalist wish i was present in that time .

I was lucky enough to have spent some time with Dai at the Magic Castle. He was critical of your performance but only to make you a better Magician. His was "constructive" criticism and he told you not only what was wrong but how to do it better. He wanted everybody to care about being the best "Artist" of Magic they could be. He was no less critical of himself. Thankfully, he left videos and books so future generations can continue to be inspired and learn from his wisdom and expertise.

This man was amazing and sparked, my true interest in Magic. Although my father actually fooled me the first time with a trick, where a washer was on a rope, and he was able to make a special knot to remove the washer from the rope. I bothered him for well over three months until he finally told me how it was done and after that I was hooked. Then I started doing magic simple stuff as a kid and more complex stuff as I got older. Now I still do magic and really enjoy, the look on peoples faces when they see something that is truly magical

This is magic. thank you Dai Vernon.

@billlegere3886

7 жыл бұрын

Philip Henderson Did Harry Houdini ever do sleight of hand tricks ? I saw a old advertisement poster that associated him with card tricks. Never been a big fan of modern big stage acts, disappearing cars, etc.etc.etc. or the escape escapades of Houdini. It's the close up " street style " magic thats really amazing to me. Nothing wrong with a well thought out apparatus, but it seems with this style , the real magic is in the design of the contraption rather than the presentation. Sleight of hand , art of deception and stage presence is , for me anyway, far more amazing and entertaining.

@taylorhaws6402

6 жыл бұрын

Houdini was started out trying to be a card magician. that was his passion. he tried to do it but card magic was not bringing in much money. then he did an escape effect and it was amazingly successful. so he started doing escapes.

DAI VERNON and SLYDINI are my two favorite magicians. I still can't believe what they were able to do with magic and tricks. Just incredible.

Life would be so boring without magic and comedy. God bless these people. Their entertainment has kept me and countless others positive throughout our dark times.

OMG! I just saw Celebrity Ghost Stories, I think it was, with Carrie Fisher & she had bought this mansion! I just saw that YESTERDAY! SAME MANSION! Another actor had lived there, also, as I looked him up, as well, yet there was no mention of Dai Vernon! WOW! So many coincidences happening! Can’t wait to watch this whole documentary!

It was an honor to finally see this legend at work. Not only was he a leader in magic but an outstanding motivator. Thanks for this outstanding presentation.

and then Richard Turner comes and becomes his student then ends up defining what it means to be a card mechanic today. Inspiring tricks that were thought to be impossible.

@rays5163

2 жыл бұрын

44:20 is that Richard sitting behind him?

@matthomer

2 жыл бұрын

@@rays5163 yes it is!

Thank you for uploading this!

classic history thanks for sharing

Thank you for this upload!

Very good documentary on Vernon. I was lucky enough to see many times in the late 1970's into the early 80's I never knew him only seen him at conventions in Vegas. The very first time I ever met Vernon was in the Eldorado Casino in Henderson Nv.

Who got goosebumps!! Dai Vernon thank you!!

What a delightful documentary! I loved it.....

Superb and inspirational.

Ricky Jay was on the X-Files! It was a great episode! Season 7. :-)

wow! that was amazing! Thanks so much for posting this. What an amazing magician!

Great documentary. Dai Vernon.

Thanks for posting!

That was great fun. Thanks.

Wonderful tribute to the father of modern close up magic.

Beautiful Documentation :) Thank's for Sharing

really inspiring!

Thanks very much.

Does anyone know where I can find more videos like these and the others this channel has posted? Whether it's I.B.M archives or Genii or ConjuringArts, etc. I'd be fine making a purchase to have access, I just really love seeing these old videos.

thanks for posting this. I work so hard; dai v.'s style and fluidity are a defining part of the art. This will keep me working a long time. Thanks again,

my 2nd cousin Shaun his idols in the magic world are Vernon , Dough Hemming , PT Selbit , Lewis Ganson , Marlo , Robert Harbin, Slydini ,Tommy Wonder, Roberto Giobbi , Lance Burton. Penn and Teller. Also Sir Paul Daniels , Wayne Dobson , Jamy Ian Swiss and Jason Ladanye .Great video i just love watching the history of magic and Shows . I do not want to know how tricks are done it's just magical and so entertaining . Thank you

Fantastic! Great to see, even though I've read much of it in the Chronicles..

Strong Imagination + Practice = Vernon

great documentary on one of the all time greats,also alot of history on magic and magicians.a bunch of these names are great in their own right.if you are interested in magic this is a valuable resource for futher research.i enjoyed seeing the video again thanks.

lovely

thanks a lot for sharing ;))

Skip, Thank You for sharing this great tribute to Dai Vernon. Did you know him? I may have seen him at the Rainbow Room? I took a Tour there in 1965 ? World's Fair included a visit to Rainbow Room. Sounds like he was in California at that time?

Me, as a hobbyist of card magic, really enjoyed this documentary. Very great! Although synchronization of sound/video is pretty poor and with the tricks you see it matters most.

Wonderful

thanks for posting this documentray :)

The best ♥️

very interesting

Does anyone know where I can learn card vanish/production at the beginning. It's very amazing , thanks.

DAI VERNON THE GREATEST MAGICIAN OF ALL TIME, EVEN THOUGH HE IS NO LONGER WITH US, I HAVE THE GREAT FORTUNE OF HAVING TOM STONE FOR A FRIEND, WHOM FOR ME IS THE DAI VERNON OF MY TIME, THUS SAID THE PROFESSOR LIVES ON......

The greatest

Married with Children is one of my favorite sitcoms of all time. I'm surprised this entire video never once mentioned Dia Vernon's favorite Magician Slydini!

Magic was his one true love to him it was a elevated performance art he didn’t do tricks he naturally presented the impossible.

That pass at 18:00 awesome!!!everyone should watch this!

@Wir3dMagician

6 жыл бұрын

Not so awesome

Slydini with Vernon at 27:57...2 greatest magicians ever.

A Great Tribute to Dai Vernon! The only problem I have with this is the "Accidental" inclussion of JOHN SCARNE handling the Cards at around 11:13 the Two Card Transpo with the Glass that he Scarne popularized on The Budweiser Commercial and then a few seconds later they show Scarne again doing The Scoop Cut with one hand.... SCARNE AGAIN!!!! This would have pissed both of those Masters off!!!

i still enjoy it more then most things i waste my time with

At 12:51 he didn't put the card to the middle of the deck. He put it right beneath the top card. If you look carefully, the top card drops after he puts the selected card underneath it

That one guy he told to sell shoes disliked the video.

Whats the name of the trick with the Queen and Ace of clubs at 11:10? Thank you!

How does he do the trick at 12:31? What is the name of the move and what dvd can I learn it on?

Very interesting:-)

To everyone out there who says that Dai Vernon is the greatest magician of all time, PLEASE put that "one of" phrase in your statemnet in respect for the names like Alex Elmsley andEd Marlo. Thank you.

What is the name of the control at 3: 50 or is he using a duplicate? Seriously, im fooled and im in magic for couple of years

Grand Illusions! When did all of those eps air? I have the two disc set but there are Way More eps than on those two discs! 🖖👀👽👽👽

respect

Approx 38:44 Jackie Flosso Trick, anyone know the name of it?

those arent vernon's hand at 12:30 are they ?

My Magician Friends Idols are the likes of Dynamo and Blaine etc. while my Idols are Marlo and Vernon;)

@khushi447

6 жыл бұрын

Pokemonplayer6928 ya because only of those guys like Marlo Vernon Houdini Erdnase people like blaine dynamo Angel could come up

@adamjnotthecongressmanschi7026

6 жыл бұрын

so true

@adamjnotthecongressmanschi7026

6 жыл бұрын

But that's a different style. they're equally good.

@cjgoth3487

5 жыл бұрын

Vernon and Sadowitz

One more thing. When he fooled Houdini, he had Houdini write his initials, not his name. Also, the trick was to place the card second from top, not in the middle.

@mattcorrickmagic771

8 жыл бұрын

The illusion was to make it look like it was in the middle-the second from top was the trick to enable the double lift...

@magicmagicmagic4101

8 жыл бұрын

No...That would be a tilt, which he did not do. Although Vernon published material with the tilt(which many credit to him), that is not how he fooled Houdini. The effect was that the card jumped from the second position to the first position in the deck.

@PFORKY777

8 жыл бұрын

thank you!!

@fokusnikfm

6 жыл бұрын

IT was with the doubble backer

@sevidg

6 жыл бұрын

Ok you smart guys, in that ambitious card that is shown, it is not actually Vernon performing, it was just recreated and filmed in grey scale to show people what it looked like when he performed for Houdini. Also there is no double backer there, he started with picking up two cards from the table one was signed and another one under. Then he puts it on the deck does simple double lift then in the middle of the deck and it jumps to the top. After he used tilt to set up for he’s second double lift, card apparently jumped to the top again and then he put it in the middle and card came to the top third time. This was just recreated it wasn’t Vernon performing. That’s something I did back when I was 9 years old.

Was this on TV?

i want the songs with the saxophone or the piano in the begining

the name of the music in the film?

It is a very basic routine and has many variations. I don't know the name of this trick, but it is a variation of "Here or There" by Jamison and published in 1936, so I guess it is public domain now. It seems he does two double lifts with a duplicate card. However, this is such a trick where presentation is key and if you do perform it correctly it will seem like a miracle otherwise spectators think it's not that special.

I could be interested what are the names of the magicians at the picture in 27:56 - 28:01

@nickroberts6984

5 жыл бұрын

27:56 Al Flosso left ? Channing Pollock behind. Tony Slydini front. Dai Vernon right.

@nickroberts6984

5 жыл бұрын

28:01 Dai Vernon left. ? ? behind. Lewis Ganson right.

when i watch these i get bummed always thinking that i wont reach this level

@Joe-hp5ji

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyle J. K. H. Whats that?

@nickroberts6984

5 жыл бұрын

He was one of magic's very best ! Most will never achieve his level of expertise.

the most amazing magician ever walked on earth!

I think most of videos from dai vernon are lectures and i think there quite a lot of them. but only for magicians. vernon didnt perform in the late years of his life either.

That is the Ambitious Card. Dai Vernon's routine is the book 'Stars of Magic', but if you start out in magic I'd say it is better to read Card College (it is in volume 2), but these books are great. Or if you prefer video, Ellusionist's Crash Course 2 is a DVD around this trick where you can set up your own phases.

how he do tht card trick in very beginning. wow

You are lucky. I am too as I'm Happy I got the set of 17 DVD's, the "Revelations" set. I WILL SAY however, while Dai was more a "Jack of All Trades" and could do with Greatness ANY Type of Magic, Ed Marlo ONLY studied Cards, so I think he was probably a touch better. I know he DID fool with other Magic AT ONE TIME, but then was called The Cardician. I have a tape on him. I'd love to see Dai Vernon, and Ed Marlo if alive have a Card Session, then a "Card Off" if you will. I think Marlo would win.

42:53 Mel Cooley from Dick VanDyke show!

@MrBongers

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's actor Richard Deacon , who was often at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.

★★★★★

36:19 is this a candid?

if Max's hair arrow goes any further back is gonna point straight up.

oh, i´m the visit number 1000

WTF @ 36:25? He throws the deck away?

His name was supposed to be pronounced like "Day" not "Die" because it's short for David.

@cautionTosser

4 жыл бұрын

maybe it the Australian pronunciation?

i wonder if he was somehow related to me? the Wingfield part of my surname isnt super common.

Wooow nice knowing ya proffesor i learned a lot i will learn more and contribute to our art M A G I C ...

@marioblasalegria

9 жыл бұрын

Wooow well i have a friend and fellow american in papanga philippines his name is Robert la rue hes my teacher were gonna meet soon after along time im located in hagony bulacan philippines then Robert has done some good illusions for great magicians of his time he even knows Ricky Jay because his son is in the documentary buisness his son is stil a producer , me i just like his friendship hes a very wise man i look up at him he even showed me his picture performing in a cruise linner..

@marioblasalegria

9 жыл бұрын

As to know the professor no i hevent hadn the honor as far as my secrets ill never ever reveal my performances now a days any punk can ruin the art just byb looking at it and reveal8ng its secret when is it gonna start i wonder i hate to think our art form is vanishing before our very eyes ever scince that masked magician showed up i wanted to choke him

since long time I did ten count with my sponge balls. but just know if it s Vernon idea. it s cool.

@nickroberts6984

5 жыл бұрын

I believe the "10 Count" was Frank Garcia's.

5:35 Rocco

36:18 I still don't get it...why does vernon do that?

dale was like the tesla of magic🤣

36:51 Go sell shoes... Thus al bundy was born

the secrecy of majician guilds

:)))))

Is this narrated by Allan Ackerman?

11:05 Those are the hands of John Scarne! That is his Double Lift! Why include Scarne? They weren't TIGHT! LOL!!! Both Amazing though!!! An accident or intentional? I say a COMPLIMENT to BOTH Great Magi!!!

Am I the only person who thinks that the guy in the middle of the three men on 28:01 looks like Charlie Puth?

Didn't want to work or pay bills to support his family? What a POS! I grew up loving him, idolizing Dai. Never knew he he was irresponsible!

@zombiefulci3301

Жыл бұрын

He was consumed with a passion, a childlike intrigue for all things that were mysterious and profound. He surely was a delinquent father and husband but Dai was on this Earth for a higher purpose than the mundane tasks of being a breadwinner. He was a gift to this world

Why for the magic demonstrations in this documentary do they only show really simple tricks. I wish they would show what Vernon was actually capable of. Get some amateur magician to do a cheap trick, stick it in black and white and pass it off for Vernon's. Please.

@taylorhaws6402

6 жыл бұрын

your right. the bottom deal, the center deal, the shifts, and the tabled faro shuffle are all simple tricks. although you are right. most of these were not Dai Vernon. most of them were John Scarne, who is also a very talented magician and card manipulator.

This isn't totally accurate. At least it leaves a lot out, especially in the beginning. I have read the Professor's biography(which I HIGHLY recommend), and it is much more detailed. Read the book if you're interested in magic and Vernon's life.

@ReputableSubterfuge

9 жыл бұрын

They kind of left out the fact that Vernon was often a troll to other magicians, which is more entertaining than it is disheartening.

@magicmagicmagic4101

9 жыл бұрын

That is also true. But the magicians he trolled were often times trying to take advantage of him and his skill.

@ReputableSubterfuge

9 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, he was kind of just a troll in general haha.

@magicmagicmagic4101

9 жыл бұрын

Have you read the biography?

@randysager3523

9 жыл бұрын

Reputable Subterfuge I woudn't say Dai was a "troll" yes he liked to stir things up here and there but what he often did was caused others to really think about what they were doing. Granted he would cause friction between some of his students prime example would be Jennings and Cervon. He would give them both the same card problem to work on without letting on that he had told the other about the same problem and to find a method or effect for whatever it was.

Vernon is great but Edward Marlo is my favorite

@ijlalaslam3575

3 жыл бұрын

There is no question that they were both great wizards,cardician and conjurers

WTF @ 28:45 He's laughing about that ? That's terrifying

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