Disappearing duck. Effective trick and its solution

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On the stage there is a small four-leaf screen with legs carved on it, and on top is a wooden box with a lid. Approach the box standing on the screen. A cage with a duck rolls out from behind the curtains. The duck is taken out of there and given to you. Lift the lid of the box and quickly lower the duck into it.

Then remove the lid from the box and one by one - all four walls, lift the bottom. After that, unfold the screen. The assistant takes all the parts of the box placed on the cage backstage. The duck is gone!

Focus vanishing duck

Focus secret:

For demonstration, you need a collapsible box consisting of six parts (bottom, lid, four side walls), a folding four-fold screen and a duck cage on rollers. The secret of the trick lies in the bottom of the duck sideboard box, where you hide it when you put it in the box. For the manufacture of such a "sideboard" (see. Fig.) You need a hard material - plywood or tin. But it is better to use a soft sideboard made of cloth or rubber 2 mm thick, made in the form of a bag.

Focus vanishing duck

The sideboard is not visible to the audience because of the sides of the screen. Removing the bottom (part of the box), you press it to yourself with the side on which the sideboard is made, and it also becomes invisible to the audience. When the bottom with the sideboard is placed on the cage (or on the hands of an assistant), it becomes invisible due to the upper sides of the cage. The lid, bottom and all walls of the box must be, like the screen, painted. This will help to hide the hatch in the bottom of the box and the sideboard.

During the demonstration of the trick, one must try so that the audience does not suspect that by lowering the duck into the box, they are hiding it somewhere. Having raised the lid of the box, lower your left hand there, as if supporting the lid, but in fact lift the hatch in the bottom of the box with it, opening the sideboard. Hold your right hand over the box and place the duck with it. When you put the duck in, quickly take your right hand out of the box, and with your left slam the sideboard hatch in the bottom of the box. After the lid of the box is closed, immediately begin to disassemble the box. First, remove the lid and carefully hand it to one of your assistants, then, picking up the pace, dismantle the sides of the box.

Raise the bottom and remove it from the screen, making sure that the sideboard is not visible to the audience. Of course, the duck's body is flat, so it takes up very little space in the bag. Quickly pass this part of the box to the assistant, and he, without looking at it, puts it on the cage. Other parts of the box are placed on top, and all this is quickly rolled (or carried away) backstage. At this time, more and more accelerating the pace, open the screen, show it from both sides and fold it, firmly pressing the sash to the sash.

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