Kennedy, John

1983
Written by John Kennedy
Work of John Kennedy

32 pages (Stapled), published by Kennedy Enterprises
Illustrated with drawings by Doug Moors
Language: English

14 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

Jeff Busby (Epoptica, Issue 5, Jan. 1984, p. 256)

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
John Kennedy	Forward			1	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
John Kennedy	The Magic Mat	rolled-up mat on table unrolls on command		5	Mat & Close-up Pad
John Kennedy	Multiplying Coins	four half dollars produced, some from under close-up mat		5	Mat & Close-up Pad Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Miscellaneous Coin / Gaffed / Shell
John Kennedy	Translocation	four coins in a vertical row on the table, both hands palm down on table, one by one they travel across	Related to Reversal Ending (Mark Lefler, 1983) Variations Table Squeeze (David Neighbors, 1990) Scotch and Soda for Real (Reed McClintock, 2002) Silver Surfer (Wolfgang Moser, 2011) Translocation (Juha-Matti Ristiharju, 2025)	8	Coin / Gaffed / Shell Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Tabled
Mark Lefler	Reversal Ending	backfire finale for "Translocation"	Related to Translocation (John Kennedy, 1983)	11	Coin / Gaffed / Shell Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Tabled
John Kennedy	Animated Card Location	three selections, one rises from pocket, second shoots from deck, last rises from deck and floats into hand		12	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Principles / Thread Work Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Floatation Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Thread Thread / Invisible Thread / Miscellaneous
	Dribble Bluff Pass			14	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Bluff Passes
Mark Lefler	Whirling Card	card shoots out of deck and floats into hand	Related to Hummer's Whirling Card (Bob Hummer, 1980)	16	Cards / Sleights / Shooting & Scaling Cards / Principles / Thread Work Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Floatation Thread / Invisible Thread / Miscellaneous
John Kennedy	Shrinking Cards	card case shrinks, then deck, then deck normal again, visual growing last card		18	Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Micro Macro Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Card Case
John Kennedy	Coins from Nowhere	two coins vanish one at a time and reappear in spectator's cupped hand		21	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / to or from Spectator's Hand Coin / Gaffed / Shell
John Kennedy	Inexhaustible Soda Can	can emptied several times, ganga/lota with can, can reseals itself, opened again and it is full again, no switch, glass with two walls		23	Liquid / Appearance & Production Glass / Miscellaneous Can Bowl / Lota Bowl
John Kennedy	Signed Card in Canister	box in spectator's pocket, signed card appears therein folded	Related to Karte in Schachtel (Alexander de Cova, 1990)	25	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Box Container (Hennig style)
John Kennedy	Folded Arm Cover	for folding		26	Cards / Sleights / Miscellaneous / Folding
John Kennedy	Instant Liquid Production & Vanish	using silk and stemmed wine glass without base		28	Liquid / Appearance & Production Glass / Production & Appearance Glass / Vanish Liquid / Vanish

Data entered by Denis Behr, August 2018.

Lecture III