Back in 1965 Fred Kaps gave a landmark lecture at the Magic Circle and now this lecture is available as a Audio CD, along with a little printed booklet which holds a transcription of the tape, some drawings, and comments for clarification. Bearing in mind Fred Kaps’ reputation, it is strange that so little has been written about the man and his methods. Just the first ten minutes of this recording holds a fundamentally important lesson every serious student of magic needs to know.
Other than several magazine contributions, little of Fred Kaps’ work exists in the English language. There are two sets of lecture notes, one dealing with general magic and the other describing some of the coin magic Kaps performed on a film made for magicians.
Although not an inventor, Kaps did have the ability to take any effect and make it a miracle by molding it to his own personality; a personality which made it impossible for others to copy. This was one of the keys to Kap’s success. He made the trick part of himself. Its presentation was so interwoven with his own personality that it was impossible to imagine anyone else performing anything that Kaps had already done.
He did this again and again. The Floating Cork, Homing Card, Salt Pour, Surprise Stab, Blank Notes to Bank Notes, Chink A Chink and many others. After Kaps had performed the routine you could not imagine anyone else doing it better.
Introduction
It’s so Simple
Coin and Glass Routine
Coins and Cup
The Topit Vanisher
Palming Coins
Cigarette to Coin
The Hoo Coin
The Tie-Topit
Secret Pockets
What’s New?
Sail through a Crisis
The Princess Card Trick
Supersonic Variation
The Three Jokers
Chinese Bowl and Chopstick Move
Ring through Silk
Ring off String
Encore
End Notes
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