THE BLURB:
Mentalism is not just for large stages and enormous
audiences as E. Raymond Carlyle proves in this, the second
volume of The Carlyle Touch series.
In this volume, the Master Mentalist takes you into his
confidence and reveals some of his most cherished secrets.
Mr. Carlyle teaches you to entertain under the most intimate
circumstances-right under the noses of your audience.
You will learn:
Annemann Revisited
No Gimmick Book Test and Almost No-Gimmick Book Test
No Gimmick Seven Keys to Baldpate
Carlyle's Almost Real Prediction
The Butter Tub Prediction
Carlyle's handling for U.F. Grant's Version of Out of This
World
The Guessing Game
Thought to Picture
This DVD also contains printable PDF documents containing
further instructions for many of the routines in the video
presentations.
Bonus Section
We persuaded Mr. Carlyle to include more than thirty minutes
of bonus footage. He explains additional handlings for
Creditcard-Portation and the Carlyle Bill Switch from Volume
One, as well as his presentation and handling for the
classic Jaks Wallet.
Running Time Approximately: 1hr 35min
MY COMMENTS:
Carlyle's first DVD was quite well-received and considered
one of the classic DVDs for mentalists. For those that
don't know, Carlyle is one of the mentalism community's most
respected members. Most of the material here is his touches
on classic material, hence the title.
Without question, the best item, the one that's "worth the
price," is the "Butter Tub Prediction." This is a headline
prediction, but the method is unlike anything you've seen
before. It involves no switches and no gimmicks. It uses
an empty plastic butter container, the kind you'd find at
most markets. It's not gimmicked in any way. Obviously,
it's all in the handling and it's very easy to do.
Briefly, an envelope that was sent to the V.I.P. (or
whomever) is brought up on stage. It's sealed. The V.I.P.
opens it up and dumps out the contents into the butter tub.
Then the V.I.P. proceeds to pick out each slip as the
performer dramatically reveals the contents on each. To
clarify, during the performance, the performer never touches
the envelope, nor the slips that were inside. It's
extremely clean and extremely clever.
Now, this is not to say that the rest of the material isn't
good. But the butter tub principle is something that can be
versatile and is the one bit on this DVD that truly kept me
up thinking about it. Other routines involve books, ESP
symbols, drawing duplications, playing cards, and numbers.
Also, the DVD contains eight PDF files which are
instructions to most of the routines, in addition to two
graphics of crystal balls to use.
