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Now
each DVD includes a full color inserts with your
favorite photos and original run downs
Linking
Ring Review (Part 3):
 
The
Magic Land of Allakazam DVDs contain an enormous amount
of magic. Over the four years and three months that the
series aired, Mark Wilson and his company must have performed
several thousand magic effects, all of them very visual
and all the product of a highly-focused creative team. In
some way, every effect is unique, and astute viewers will
notice how “tricks” can be elevated to the status
of magical art when attention is given to theatrical subtleties.
The following are descriptions of only a small portion of
what you see in the first 24 episodes.
 
Major illusions are often performed under
“test” conditions involving a small boy or girl
from the audience. Many are one-of-a-kind. The illusions
include Wilson’s innovative Doll’s House, a
precipitous Aga levitation, Baking Basil’s Birthday
Cake (which magically produces Nani), Nani suddenly vanishes
in the giant Dizzy Limit, and instantly reappears in the
Crystal Casket, the Tip-Over Box, the Costume Trunk, the
Canvas Covered Box, the Modern Cabinet, and Dora the Dancing
Doll. Constructed by John Gaughan, the latter is a masterpiece
of mechanical construction, beauty, and mystery.
 
Their
Asrah Levitation concludes with an unexpected exchange at
the end (a theatrical touch such as this, appended to an
already near-perfect illusion, elevated The Magic Land of
Allakazam into the realm of pure art). Their Human Die Box
with Rebo as the die is a comic masterpiece full of psychological
red herrings. Their Broom Suspension could serve as a lesson
in dramatic scene construction. Highest Recommendation.
–
Elson Bihm, Linking Ring Review (continued
on next volume)
Volume
3 Features:
Magic
Circus Wagon and Drum Illusion
You’ll
see a Magic Circus Wagon and an empty drum
hanging in the air. Then comes the magic!
 
Amazing
Broom Suspension
Nani Darnell is suspended in the air
on a broom
in this powerful presentation.
 
Canvas
Covered Box Transformation
An
examined wooden box is tightly wrapped in canvas,
yet there is an amazing exchange.
 
Nani’s
Enchanted Castle
Princess
Nani is inside the Enchanted Castle
when Mark inserts many magic wands with a surprise ending.
 
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