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You use this in your act then?

It can be done with a playing card. If I were to do it, I think that's the appoach I would take, but it is really more of a bar trick...

(not that I have anything against bar tricks)

I did that trick when I was 6...

Yeah, me too, Point. I think I did it at school. Never thought of doing it with a playing card though...

Maybe there's scope for a routine... "and now I've pulled it out of my hat, I'm going to pass the rabbit through this playing card..."

If you remove the words, 'this rabbit' from that sentence you'd still be able to do it and also be even more spectacular.

Now there's an effect I must learn - pulling a card out of a hat!

(S*d the glory, I want commission!)

I first performed this in the 1940's. It was on the back of a 'cigarette' card. These were small cards on various subjects, enclosed in a cig packet. This set (no I didn't smoke at the age of 11) this set was on magic and you could buy the sets in places like Woolworths. The trick was Walking Through A Postcard. Certainly it can be done with a playing card but you can only just, usually for magicians, get your head through it. A postcard gives you a large area to pull down over the body and step out of. It is so old it's new and is a good party attention grabber. In the series of cigarette cards was also the Weeping Pencil. You tucked the pencil behind your ear whilst showing your hands empty and as you removed it you stole a small water soaked sponge with it.Squeezed the pencil and it wept. Probably the origin of being wet behind the ears!
There was a series with famous people in UK and when I retired from directing a G & S Musical Production group last year, one of the members, as a thank you present, obtained an original from off the Net. It had Dante in his artists beret, worn for The Creation Of A Woman ( The Creo Illusion or as Thurston calledit The Vampire Illusion) on it, in colour. This is , for younger viewers, a tripod put together, surmounted with a wax/papier mache head, a cloak wrapped round . It comes to life as a real woman. I believe a number of these cig. cardsets have in recent years been reproduced for sale.
Allen Tipton

Certainly it can be done with a playing card but you can only just, usually for magicians, get your head through it.

I have to disagree with you here Allen.
It all depends on how close together you make the cuts and how many there are. The more there is the larger the final apeture will be.
If you do more cuts closer together then you can quite comfortably step through a playing card.

Oh Hodgkinson...Perhaps you're slimmer than most magicians. What about trying it with a postage stamp?
Seriously. I have performed it with a playing card as a slim teenager BUT think of how long your audience of however many has to wait while you so very carefully make the number of cuts needed. How many gags would you use to stop the audience getting bored? And you have more risk of the playing card breaking apart than a postcard which is the ideal size.
Allen
PS I have now gone on a diet to try it out again.

I seem to remember the first time I saw this was on the kid's TV show 'HOW!' back in the early 80s.

I seem to remember the guys and gals chatting about 'How to walk THROUGH a postcard' and then showing the cutting diagram.

On the 'HOW!' version, however, they folded the card lengthwise which made the cuts easier.

Oh, how I loved that show. HOW!, the Great Egg Race, the Adventure Game, Tomorrow's World... I LIVED for those TV shows!

How sad?

I remember that from how!! and Tomorrow's World was amazing loved there april fools joke with the music player..... (looked like todays mp3 players) it was voice activated and you just say the song and it finds and plays it!! (with the help of the sound dept!!!)

Thats How... for now!!

i had to do this in science last week... one of them experiment thingys