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What Counts As A Camera Trick?

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What Counts As A Camera Trick?

Magicians can't even agree on this...

Rory Adams
Mar 18, 2021
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What Counts As A Camera Trick?

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This week’s post is heavily inspired by this discussion thread and the opinions generated by members of Only Ideas and some Facebook groups.


Justin Willman Magic for Humans
I love this segment we did, based on a trick from an old magic book.

A couple of weeks ago, a friend shared an incredible Instagram video of a successful magician making a Rubik’s cube appear from an iPad screen.

The Rubiks cube trick was a camera trick; you could see the classic telltale signs of rotoscoping. I told this to my friend, and I think he felt let down.

“Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.”

- Karl Germain

But camera tricks aren’t allowed; that’s cheating? That’s why we feel let down when magicians use camera tricks? Right?

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