Time Machine

THE BLURB:
A Kenton Classic come to life in living color at last!

Filmed live in several locations...

Kenton's Original Time Machine effect was first revealed to
performers in rare lectures and workshops. It became a
staple (still is) of Kenton's performances. Time Machine
finally made it's way into Wonder Words... but few performed
it until NOW.

For the first time ever Kenton has allowed the filming of
Time Machine in action.

What is "Kenton's Time Machine?"

Completely under the performer’s spell, the spectator thinks
of a time to travel to in a different country.

She holds tightly to a coin from the U.S. and a more modern
time, and then goes into a trance...

When the spectator snaps out of her trance, she is shocked
to find she is holding a coin from the place she traveled to
in her mind ... and confirms the date on the coin is the
exact year she imagined !

Finally, everything you need to know about this Kenton
Klassic at last.

But that's not all.

Kenton also included his devious ways of apparently making
his spectator forget their own name - sometimes twice in a
row! Yes, you CAN do it. You'll see for yourself once you
learn Kenton's sneaky secrets.

PLUS

Kenton shows additional "touches" he uses when he performs
his Time Machine effect. This includes invisible touches on
the arm and head - in real time. No delays, no stalling.
This is as direct as can be. For those wondering how it
would look and play in real life - see for yourself at last!
These secrets are essentials in all of Kenton's trance
illusion and "Kentonism" performances. Now they can be yours
as well.

You get the name forgetting sequence, Kenton's original
hypnosis coin illusion as designed for television, Kenton's
"Touched in the Head" and "Heightened Arm Sensations" - with
no gimmicks whatsoever, and Kenton's Time Machine with
touches not even explained in Wonder Words... fully revealed
for the first time on this DVD.

You will see Time Machine performed live, with additional
details and bonus work explained too. It's everything you
could want and more so you can properly learn this effect
and its many related sub-effects, all on one DVD. See and
learn it live - as if you were right there yourself.

Kenton's Time Machine and Touches - available at last.

Running Time Approximately 32min

MY COMMENTS:
Technically, and based on the performance, this is a magic
trick, though the blurb doesn't really give you all the
details to understand that. In the performance that Kenton
gives on the DVD, a half dollar given to the participant
changes into an English penny with the freely thought-of
year on it. Now, you can certainly alter the presentation
so that a transposition doesn't take place. While the
participant's eyes are closed you can take one coin from a
bunch of different ones, place it in their hand, and have
them imagine a year. When the participant opens the hand,
the date is seen to be the correct one imagined as well as
the imagined place.

As for the "Touches" part of the DVD, that is definitely
Banachek's, but Kenton isn't using Banachek's routine. He's
just using parts of it, and some techniques that are his, to
put the participant in a trance, or in a specific mental
state of being, to do the Time Machine routine.

That said, the routine is easy to do technically. You will
require a small envelope for the coin and some preparation.
You also need a specific coin which you may already have in
your collection. If not, they're easy to obtain. Kenton
also provides additional information such as his
name-forgetting technique. There's some good and strong
material on this DVD which makes this worth your while
checking out.