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== Examples == | == Examples == | ||
* [[Al Baker]]'s ''The Migrating Cards'' in Greater Magic (1938). Reprint in [[The Secret Ways of Al Baker]] (2003) | * [[Al Baker]]'s ''The Migrating Cards'' in Greater Magic (1938). Reprint in [[The Secret Ways of Al Baker]] (2003) | ||
* [[Jose Carroll]]'s ''Red and Black'' in [[52 Lovers]] | * [[Jose Carroll]]'s ''Red and Black'' in [[52 Lovers I]] (1988) | ||
* [[Gerald Deutsch]] & [[Peter Marshall]]'s ''Follow the Leader Updated'' in [[Apocalypse]], Vol. 9, N° 2, fev. 1986. | * [[Gerald Deutsch]] & [[Peter Marshall]]'s ''Follow the Leader Updated'' in [[Apocalypse]], Vol. 9, N° 2, fev. 1986. | ||
*[[Alex Elmsley]] & Brother John Hamman's ''The Atomic Aces'' in [[The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley]] - Vol. 1 written by [[Stephen Minch]] (1991) | *[[Alex Elmsley]] & Brother John Hamman's ''The Atomic Aces'' in [[The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley]] - Vol. 1 written by [[Stephen Minch]] (1991) | ||
Revision as of 11:52, 14 December 2008
Follow the Leader is a classic plot in card magic where some red cards and some black cards are placed face down in two piles. As the top cards are turned face up and switched, the pile of the face down cards are shown to have followed with them.
In 1929 Faucett Ross came upon a letter from amateur German magician Dr. Reinhard Rohnstein to Ottokar Fischer describing this effect and showed it to Dai Vernon. See the story in Ibidem N° 6, July 1956.
Dai published it in Five Close-Up Problems (1933) and is also included in Early Vernon book (1962).
Examples
- Al Baker's The Migrating Cards in Greater Magic (1938). Reprint in The Secret Ways of Al Baker (2003)
- Jose Carroll's Red and Black in 52 Lovers I (1988)
- Gerald Deutsch & Peter Marshall's Follow the Leader Updated in Apocalypse, Vol. 9, N° 2, fev. 1986.
- Alex Elmsley & Brother John Hamman's The Atomic Aces in The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley - Vol. 1 written by Stephen Minch (1991)
- John Fedko's Exchango in Apocalypse Vol. 3, N° 12, dec. 1980
- Karl Fulves' Fellow Followers and Mini Followers in Packet Switches (Part One) (1972)
- Karl Fulves' Random Followers in Packet Switches (Part Two) (1973)
- Larry Jennings' Larry's Leader in Larry Jennings on Card and Coin Handling (1977)
- Milt Kort's Following Elias in Epoptica
- Ed Marlo's Follow the Leader in The Cardician (1953)
- Darwin Ortiz's The Color of Money in Scams & Fantasies with Cards (2002)
- Dr. Reinhard Rohnstein & Dai Vernon's Day Trippers in Card College, Vol. 4 (2000)
- Juan Tamariz' Fabulous Change in Apocalypse Vol. 17, N° 10, oct 1994.
- Audley Walsh's Ten Card Color Change in Tarbell Course in Magic - Vol. 2 (1942)