The Four Basic Principles of Card Conjuring
Originally published 11.12.2008
This is an excerpt from the PBS documentary, The Art of Magic, for which I also served as a consultant. I also co-wrote the companion coffee-table style history book by the same title; the book is now out of print, but a few copies are available from the “Buy Stuff” link on my site.
The documentary unfortunately was never released on DVD, so it has not been available since the VHS version left the marketplace. This piece is a routine I call “The Four Basic Principles of Card Conjuring”:
