The magician displays his deck of cards, and eight rather special cards: four of them are blank-faced, and on the face of each of the other four ones, a bumblebee is drawn. One by one, the bumblebees change places with the blank cards, and at the end, the magician strikes the packet of bumblebees... which all end up crushed! The icing on the cake: all the cards in the deck are now shown, and they're all crushed bumblebees! Everything is handed out for examination.  

In the first part of the “Happy Lecture”, you can watch the performance part of the lecture; the tricks will be explained in subsequent videos. We suggest you go and look at the French video, as it's a different recording, even if the tricks are broadly the same.  

The magician shows four Jokers... which turn into a Royal Flush in Spades! To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

It's an incredible Three Card Monte, as the 3 cards are each isolated in a holder, making sleight of hand impossible. And yet, the spectator always loses! To buy the trick click here.  

The spectator shuffles the deck and thinks of a card under absolute laboratory conditions. The magician puts one card in his pocket. The card is named, the magician takes the card out of his pocket: it's the one! An absolute miracle! To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

The spectator thinks of a number between 1 and 10. The magician count ten cards, and asks the spectator to recall the card that corresponds to his number. The magician taps the deck... and shows that the card has disappeared! He then asks for a number between 1 and 52... and the chosen card ends up at that number! To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

I want you to know that it's free choice, it's very clean and it's great. I'll say no more! To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

David Stone explains the following tricks: "Carbonier" (Torn and restored Card). We suggest you go and look at the French part of this publication, as it's a different recording, even if the tricks are broadly the same. To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

David Stone explains the following tricks: "Mirage", "Glass and Bottle Production", "Easy Splash" and “Card to Foot - Tool”. We suggest you go and look at the French video, as it's a different recording, even if the tricks are broadly the same. To buy: - an ordinary deck of cards click here. - the trick Splash Bottle 2.0 click here.  

A Tsunami of madness. A card is chosen, and lost in the red-backed deck, under impossible conditions. The magician not only finds the card, but pulls a blue-backed card from his pocket... Which turns out to be the card chosen by the spectator! A real killer! To buy : - an ordinary deck of cards click here. - some regular cards click here.  

David Stone explains the following tricks: "Prediction", “M-Case”, “Wet and Restored” and “Splash Bag”. We suggest you go and look at the French part of this publication, as it's a different recording, even if the tricks are broadly the same. To buy: - an ordinary deck of cards click here. - the trick Splash Bottle 2.0 click here. - the trick M-Case click here.  

Tsunami: Japanese word meaning "tidal wave". It's a trick that will devastate your spectators' brains, whether they're laymen or magicians. Here's another crazy Tsunami, where you'll go back in time to find the spectator's card, thanks to the "power" of your left hand! A true miracle! To buy: - the book « Livre Duvivier » click here. - a regular deck of cards click here. - the DVD « From Old to New, Volume #1 » click here.  

David Stone proposes the following tricks: « Splash », « Wallet » and « Double Zenith ». We suggest you go and look at the French part of this publication, as it's a different recording, even if the tricks are broadly the same. To buy: - an ordinary deck of cards click here. - the trick Splash Bottle 2.0 click here. - the trick Zenith click here.  

Dai Vernon explained this technique to Howard Hamburg. Dai emphasized that the Optical Move was used as a subtlety, not a trick. For example, one could incorporate the Optical Move in conjunction with a Three Card Monte presentation or within an Oil and Water presentation. To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

From a shuffled deck, a spectator first selects one card, then a series of three cards. The first card, the Leader card, is turned over... and it's the Ace of Spades. The other three cards are turned over... but they're three Kings! Never mind, the magician transforms the Ace of Spades into a King of Spades, but when he turns over the three kings, they are now Aces... and the King of Spades becomes an Ace of Spades! As a climax, the four Aces transform into Kings, and the Aces end up face-up in the middle of the deck! A maelstrom of effects that will leave your audience completely stunned! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

This extract from the DVD “L'Ecole des Cartes - Volume 1” is Alexandra and Dominique Duvivier's presentation of the program.