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Flight of the Paper Balls
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Flight of the Paper Balls (or Paper Balls Over Head) is an effect where successive balls of paper disappear before the volunteer's eyes while the audience sees the magician actually tossing them over the volunteer's head.
Dunninger was fooling some of the best magicians in the country using a balled-up handkerchiefs starting around 1912. He published, what he called a gag as "The Dunninger Handkerchief Vanish" in The Sphinx (September 1914).
It was later adapted to large paper balls by Tony Slydini and performed in night clubs by 1949.
Publications
- "The Dunninger Handkerchief Vanish" in The Sphinx (September 1914).
- A ONE-MAN HANDKERCHIEF VANISH in The original Tarbell Course (1920s)
- Slydini published his version as "Flight of the Paper Balls" in the Stars of Magic #8 (1951).