One of the best and about the only magician where you don't see lots of millennials saying I know how it's done because it doesn't matter whether you play this 100 x it's still works

Most stage performing magicians are good at comedy as well it's part of doing the act

I saw him live once, at the Theatre Royal in Norwich, with my mum and dad. About 1990. My parents took me to see it because I loved magic and Paul's Saturday night BBC show. We were late, and there was nowhere to park, so me and dad went in for the show while mum tried to find a parking spot. Daniels started his show by talking to the audience, and he spoke to some visiting Canadians. At some point after this, my mum finally showed up in the back of the theatre, trying to sneak in. Paul noticed her and said "You've taken your time, where have you come from?". She said "Diss". He went - "Diss? That's just down the road - There are people here from Canada and they've managed to make it on time!" Cue a thousand people laughing at my mum. Daniels had the invention and the lines. Strange guy, brilliant performer.

I dont mean to be off topic but does anyone know a way to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly lost the account password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me.

@Marley Colin instablaster ;)

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@Marley Colin Glad I could help xD

Its funny a lot of people say it's old fashioned and people wouldn't fall for this anymore well I've been a magician 30 years and 20 of that was with the internet and every time I performed their Jaws drop and they're totally amazed

Sounds like a lot of guessing and suppositions. When you figure out the trick exactly get back to us.

@@James-kv6kb That's a member of the general public trying to work it out. Don't punch anyone!

@@joiedevivre5119 OK fine if you want to work it out and ruin the illusion that's fine but don't go and broadcast it saying look at me for likes . Basically the industry has now collapsed because people just keep watching videos 50 times over and then go and broadcast how it's done that's not fair it's not supposed to be seen like that and you're just ruining people's careers as if that's not important we can always go back to the quality American stuff lol

@@James-kv6kb tbf you need magic that can withstand that new tech. I take your point that Daniels wasn't making for that audience but they had video and it was still his choice to do close-up on camera. Blame magicians for not being good enough on camera, as well, or sticking to outdated routines. (Not Daniels, as much.) Also on the more recent trend of magicians giving the whole game away themselves, and of course when we see how banal some of it is, we are not credulous any more.

@@joiedevivre5119 first of all I was a professional magician for 30 years so this subject is my specialty. Now when the stuff was on television people didn't have the opportunity to sit in their parents bedroom and watch it 50 times until they saw how it was done , the illusion was created because the people saw it for the first time and also it was in the format of a show ,you didn't just see one trick you saw the whole show which didn't give you time to work it out . Also it is very difficult to find quality tricks so if you're doing a show every week not every trick is going to be the quality of the last one . Now you say that we should update our tricks as if there's just endless ways of making something disappear appear or turn up somewhere else that is simply not possible ,there is only so many ways of doing tricks and it can take many years to perfect tricks that are worthy of performing to create an illusion which is why the art form shouldn't have ever been on TV because everybody gets to see everything so quickly . Now let's get onto tech the reason we no longer have live entertainment is because Google doesn't want people experiencing that, they want you all on their services which is why they like to promote this whole idea of giving away magic because they don't want you experiencing the shows the way it was once done, they want to be mindless consumers on tictoc . And don't give me this crap about magicians being bad on camera the act is the same on TV as if you were in the studio unlike all the magician's today which you think are so amazing who use camera tricks.. guarantee 99% of the people that say they've worked it out have watched it more than once. As for giving away secrets that's usually done by performers that can't make money out of performing magic so they give it away , anybody can find out how a trick is done but performing it is completely different making it entertaining making money from it is a whole different ball game which is why drug addict alcoholics like the masked magician give away stuff. All I'm saying is if you work something out good on you but don't make it easy for the next guy and allow these tricks to continue being seen not thinking you have the right to destroy 3000 years of magic evolution because you're bored and want to see the next thing ,when not in a million years would you pay the ticket price to go and see a live magician to actually support the industry or see how it's actually done and why the industry of magic was the leading form of entertainment for the last 3000 years . I actually think you'd be afraid to go to a real magic show because you would be blown away wouldn't actually know what was going on and suddenly realised you don't know as much about this as you actually think

+Gus Flannagan its done with shells that fit over the ones he shows which are in the tube !!

+nicadcock look how carefully he brings the box up

@@nicadcock and slowly rotates it and the black buttons on the outside seem interesting

@@nicadcock there has to be some fuckwhit to give it away and destroy the art of magic look at me look at me im so important because I know how it's done well why aren't you on TV presenting it ? Why because you're a boring person from the suburbs that needs to destroy the art of magic to get attention from people

P. T. Selbit. The trick was originally called "Selbit's Blocks".

thx!!

Conradi of Germany is also credited with the creation of this effect. Slight variations but considered a co-creator so to speak.

His real name was Percy Tibbles. Obviously a stage name that sounded like your grandma's cat was not great, so he reversed it and hence "Selbit." As Paul says, Selbit also invented the "Sawing a woman in half" effect, which was first performed 100 years ago this year. As part of the promotion for his show, Selbit offered £20 to the militant suffragette Christabel Pankhurst to act as his assistant. She declined.

I really hate people like you but luckily people are too stupid to know what a shell is

@@James-kv6kb you know what I'm gonna agree with you and remove my comment ... that was 9 years ago and I changed my mind ...

I think this is a better place than TikTok 😀

@brotherbor I agree, but if I hadn't have been binge toking I'd never had seen this 😂

+Guilio McEwan Nope, I just bought this trick, it's much simpler :)

+Xtant Audio noo now iam gonna have to buy it.

It's called magic cubes by Tenyo I had to order it from Japan, it's not as fancy as the one PD does though

Iam looking them up now. Just not gonna tell the misses as i think there gonna be a 40 jobby lol

Cube a Libre

Ja Cinta maybe LCD ? ... the trick is always: the explanation is simple but spirits (demons) prevent you from thinking about it. (that's the trick) ... just kidding.. but who knows :)

***** i was really just kidding... but maybe spirits are always attracted to people who are confronted with magic (they see the confusion and feel it from distance and could instantly join into your brain when you are confronted with your own doubts.... and then they always might influence you how you think about the trick. why are you so interrested? what do you know about demons? i mean just spirits.. people who passed and now live in the spirit world and somehow are not developed enough in love (like average people on earth) and just have fun in making people think a certain way about magic... maybe to confuse them as long as possible in order to keep the connection (through the emotion of confusion or rather the will to escape it) ... because they are just humans and that's how they escape from their own emotions, because it makes them feel influential :)