Effect:
Magician reaches into a hat
gets arm pulled into hat
rumaging around
pulls arm out
Display what was in the hat.

Very impromtu trick. I don't remember where I saw this. Have found one verson from Charlie Frye with forearm, but I am imagining the whole arm going into the hat.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

Espen

You are likely thinking of the one Sylvester the Jester does. Far as I know it's his own method.

A lot of buskers like Eric Evans and Jimmy Talksalot do this - it is an old vaudeville gag and there are various ways of doing it. I do not think there are very many resources out there on doing this, either in print or on video, other than what Charlie Frye describes.

Sylvester the Jester has a really fun bit with it, and as stucky said, I also believe that to be his own method (which is probably not that much different from the rest of them). When he does it, he has a bit of what we will call an 'advantage', for lack of better word.

It's described on the"Visu-Antics" DVD by Jim Pace which I believe is still available.