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jimgerrish Inner circle East Orange, NJ 3209 Posts |
This past Easter (3/27/16), Fred Goode gave Professor Spellbinder an Easter basket made from Plastic Popcorn Tubs and Containers bought at Dollar Tree, along with the required Peeps and Chocolates. He challenged the Professor to come up with a new magic trick using the stuff in the basket. Darned if he didn't do it! The popcorn containers got him to thinking about Tommy Windsor's old Popcorn Dye Box from 1940, and how it hasn't changed a bit since that time. Then he sat in his rocking chair and thought about it for a few days, and by April Fools day he had come up with a brand new way to do all the Popcorn Dye Box silk tricks (there's a book full of ideas by Tommy Windsor) plus some new ones that can use liquids, sand, confetti, goldfish, M&M's and a lot more. As far as I can tell, no one has ever used these combinations of techniques and technology before, so it's brand new and making us all come up with more uses for the plastic popcorn containers. Meanwhile, he just published the e-Book in his Mini-Mysteries series Book 4 on The Magic Nook if anyone cares to investigate and see what new tricks can come from an old dog.
Jim Gerrish
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
Kudos to the continuing tradition of magic and simplicity.
"the more one pretends at magic, the more awe and wonder will be found in real life." Arnold Furst
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
Tommy didn't become independently wealthy with the Dye Box (@ $1.00/box) but he certainly "got a hernia going to the bank!)!
At the Magi-Fest, where he "introduced" it, he sold out his stock in one evening. His wife spent the rest of the weekend, making dye boxes, in their hotel room! As Jim mentioned above, a few months later, Tommy published the "Dye Box Book" of ideas for its use. I think it was about 1950, not 1940, I experimented with an act, in 1953, in which all the props were carried in a Dye Box. In the early '70s, when I worked "Chicago Fest" for Keebler Cookies, I used a Dye Box (a Keebler Cookie box) to vanish the silk for the 20th Century Silks, and, also used the principle, in '71/'72, with my "Puzzling Environment" program. I got my nickel's worth with the poor man's "change bag"!
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