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N UMBER O NE

T HE H OLLYWOOD D OUBLE L IFT

The Real Work Teach-In Series is

a collection of manuscripts being

published in electronic form

for on-line distribution.

The Hollywood Double Lift is

www.ouelletshows.com

T HE H OLLYWOOD D OUBLE L IFT

G ARY O UELLET

A phrase is born into the world both

good and bad at the same time. The

secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible

twist. The lever should rest in your hand,

getting warm, and you can only turn it

once, not twice.

-Guy de Maupassant

T he double lift, a sleight of recent ori-

gins if you consider that magic is the old-

est of the performing arts, has been hailed

as the most useful move in all of card con-

juring. It can stand the scrutiny of repeat-

ed use, if properly executed. There have

been, of course, hundreds of variations

published over the years, from the ground

breaking natural approach by Dai Vernon

in the original Stars of Magic Series , to

more daring and baffling applications by

the late Arturo Ascanio, a true master in

the handling of double cards.

If only to perform Ambitious Card, one of

the most amazing tricks in all of magic no

matter the routine employed, it is worth

mastering a double lift. I have published a

number of lifts in Close Up Illusions , and

in Finger on the Card , but I think that the

version described here surpasses them in

deception.

What follows is a handling that has devel-

oped, literally, over a decade of research.

I have been enamored by the double lift

since childhood, especially handlings

which seemed "loose": where the double

was not gripped in a death-lock hold by

white-knuckled fingers, all of which

emphasized the single-ness (or singularity)

of the card(s).

The move itself takes but a few seconds,

but getting there will take some time.

Indeed, it will take 30 photographs! It may

take you a while to build up the muscle

memory needed to make any sleight

smooth cruising, so I suggest you take it a

step at a time. I have never taught the

move to anyone, so this is it’s premiere

release!

C AVEAT

This explanation offers no uses for the

sleight, no routine, no trick. There are

many thousands of published card tricks

which rely on the double-lift and it is

assumed the reader has a use for the

sleight. If you are truly new to card magic,

here is its most basic application. The

magician turns over the top card of the

deck (say, the Ace of Spades), and turns it

back face down. He takes it, inserts it

cleanly into the middle of the deck, snaps

his fingers, and amazingly, the card has

jumped back to the top. The secret: when

the magician apparently turned over the

top card, he really turned over two cards.

So when he turned them back face down

and took the top card and buried it in the

deck, it was not the Ace of Spades which,

conveniently, is now the true top card of

the deck, and can be shown to have mag-

ically risen. This is, of course, the basic

premise of a classic trick called “The

Ambitious Card” where this scenario is

repeated over and over again, with varia-

tions and mounting challenge conditions.

My personal favorite routine for this leg-

endary trick can be found at my website,

w w w. o u e l l e t s h o w s . c o m . Go to the

Magicians Only page and you will find it

in the tip sheets. You can bypass the magic

test by using the password, “jamary”.

T HE ELEMENTS OF A GOOD DOUBLE LIFT

A good double lift looks natural, and con-

tains elements which suggest that there

can only be one card, the mind of the

onlookers unconsciously computing that

more than one card would be visible, or

they would separate, and so forth. What is

wrong with many double lifts being per-

formed by magicians is the obvious fear

that the cards will separate, or move out of

alignment, and consequently they pinch

the card(s) tightly, in a death grip. A card

is a delicate object, a piece of thick paper,

and there is no logical explanation for

gripping a single card tightly, or unnatu-

rally.

G ETTING READY

Although there is a school of thought that

believes the correct way to get into the

move is simply to reach over to the cra-

dled deck and lift up two cards with the

right forefinger - a method described by

Dr. Jacob Daley in the Stars of Magic

series - I have found that this approach is

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