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Profile of Paul Harris
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Paul Harris |
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15th September 1917 |
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Los Angeles County, California, USA |
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Paul Harris is an inventor, magician, and writer.
Paul Harris is described as "the most innovative magic mind of our day" (Genii, December 1996). He has invented tricks including: "linking playing cards", "a solid deck", a torn and restored card effect, coins materializing from mirrors, a card that appears to turning ninety degrees when pushed into the pack, and a torn and restored quarter.
Harris has performed at the Dunes Hotel and at other locations on the Las Vegas "Strip".
Recently, Harris was a technical advisor for David Blaine's Magic Man and Street Magic TV shows
Paul contributed writing to the 1987 film "Nice Girls Don't Explode", which starred Starring Michelle Meyrink, William O'Leary, Wallace Shawn, James Nardini, and Margot Gray.
Noted illusions
Amongst the magicians who have presented Paul Harris effects are David Copperfield and Doug Henning. Henning performed the amazing Twilight routine on the third TV special (December 13, 1977). David Copperfield in 1984 special (the one where he made the statue of liberty disappear) performed a linking card effect "The Immaculate Connection". In this routine, the magician tears holes in the center of three playing cards in order to create three "frames". The illisuion consists in causing the frames to link and unlink withough apparently damaging any of the cards. At the conclusion, the cards may be passed for inspection and no extra cards or gimmicks are employed.
Twilight effect: It uses a mirror and a half dollar. The Half is transported into the twilight zone of its own mirrored reflection. While in this dimension, the coin apparently becomes condensed, dematerialized, recreated, and reproduced.
Mike Maxwell has released a compendium of Paul Harris effects in a three volume set called "The Art of Astonishment, Pieces of Strange to Unleash the Moment".
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