37 entries in Ball / Floatation / Zombie
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Jack Yeager Glorifying Your Magic
  • 1. Califaction of Handkerchiefs (silks in dove pan merge together)
  • 2. How to spell trust? (oddity on coin)
  • 3. Key Card Placement (Charlier Pass)
  • 4. 20th Century Silks idea
  • 5. Zombie Idea (floating flower pot)
  • 6. Comedy bits with a stooge
  • 7. Miser's Dream Shower (with handkerchief)
  • 8. Thumb Tip Idea (with scotch tape)
  • 9. Thimble color change
  • 10. The cotton bunny (cotton bunny to real one, dove pan)
1948
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1948)
12
Fitch Cheney Zombieeque with wooden ring as proof
Sep. 1949 581
Karrell Fox Impromptu Zombie floating roll, fork
Feb. 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 301)
3
Jesse J. Langston Jr. Zombie zombie with big billiard ball
Aug. 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 313)
55
Charly Eperny Kleine Experimente... Grosse Wirkung ghost in box, starts to levitate from box under handkerchief and answers questions, Zombie principle
1959
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 20 No. 4)
847
Henry Durkin Trickettes various ideas
  • A Clock Production
  • Zombie Flash Finish
  • Hypnotic Revelation
1960
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1960)
48
Allessandro Miracle Ball Christmas themed
1964
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1963-64)
38
John F. Mendoza The Zombie by John (aka Carendi, Our Teen Age Contribution), ball floats through a ring inside a hat and disappears
1964
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1963-64)
52
Karl Fulves, Aaron Wainer Three Bottles
  • tobacco and paper dropped in bottle and shake, transforms into cigarette
  • cork pops off second bottle after moving up and down (a la Zombie)
  • whistling in third bottle, bottle whistles by itself afterwards, see p. 308 for reference
Related to Dec. 1969 303
Theo "Okito" Bamberg, Joe Berg Zombie Cabinet cabinet for Zombie ball, ball vanishes eventually or changes into a skull
1973 87
Richard Merry, George Mackenzie Humoristische Vortragssplitter und Magische Gags various gags
  • Begrüßung
  • Freiwillige Helfer
  • Geld (Münzfang)
  • Handguillotine
  • Kopfguillotine
  • Karten
  • Mentalmagie
  • Schwebeeffekte (Sambakugel)
  • Seile
  • Verschiedenes
  • Wenn das Weihnachtsfest vorbei ist
  • Zauberstab
  • Zigaretten
Also published here
  • The Gen & Genii
Nov. 1975
Intermagic (Vol. 3 No. 1 & 2)
24
Lewis Ganson Introduction
1977 4
Lewis Ganson Supreme Moves
  • Requirements
  • Set-Up - The Get-Ready
  • The Ball Rises
  • The Ball Rises into View
  • The Ball Floats along the Arm
  • Around the Body
  • The Ball Suspends on the Cloth
  • The Ball 'Bounces' on the Cloth - A Routine
1977 5
Luis Gavilondo The Gavilondo Start and Finish
1977 11
Will Ayling Will Ayling's Zombie Routine
  • The Apparatus
  • The Routine
  • The Start
  • The Ball Comes to Life
  • The Ball on the Arm
  • The Cradle
  • The Ball on the Edge of the Cloth
  • The Hoop around the Ball
  • The Ball around the Body
  • The Ball Moves along the Cloth
  • The Ball Floats
  • The Finish
1977 13
Luis Gavilondo The Sacred Sun Ball
  • The Entrance
  • Attaching the Gimmick
  • The Ball Vanishes
  • The Ball Re-Appears
  • Showing Both Sides of the Cloth
  • The Ball on the Elbow
  • The Ball on the Knee
  • The Ball Floats - Climax
1977 21
Luis Gavilondo Additinal Sequence for a Zombie Routine
1977 29
Luis Gavilondo 'Wrong Side' Ball Appearance
1977 33
Don England The Upper Deck cased deck floats underneath silk Zombie like, then vanishes from case except for selection
1981 1
Al Schneider Props
  • the ball and gimmick
  • the cloth
  • your clothes - lighting - manipulating the wire - holding the cloth
1981 15
Al Schneider Theory on the floatation of a Zombie
1981 29
Al Schneider Drills movements for practicing the Zombie
1981 37
Al Schneider The Routine
  • prepare the ball for performance
  • starting the routine
  • the main part of the routine
  • final sequence of routine
1981 47
Al Schneider Summary & Patter for Zombie
1981 87
Neville Wiltshire Zombie Cube effect suggestion
1982 11
Rhett Bryson, John Riggs Zombie gag, bald head zombie
1987 340
Karl Fulves Spooky Spoon No. 43, zombie principle to levitate a spoon with a secretly attached fork behind handkerchief
1988 124
Tommy Wonder Thoughts In Mid-Air essay on Zombie and on floating
1991 41
Harald Kurz Z - Zombie using third hand
1991 38
Don Nielsen Impromptu Topit shirt in inside jacket pocket configuration, gag to produce the Zombie gimmick
Related to 1994
Rigmarole (Issue 6)
63
Tommy Wonder Thoughts in Mid-Air essay on the Zombie
  • Presentation
  • What is Levitation?
  • The Routine
  • The Acting
  • The Test
  • There's Nothing Wrong with Zombie
1996 255
Tommy Wonder Animating a Zombie
1996 260
Michael Ammar Impromptu Roll Floater bread roll floats à la Zombie
Feb. 2001
Magic (Vol. 10 No. 6)
74
John Bundy Halloween Zombie Halloween themed Zombie with haunted house
Oct. 2001
Magic (Vol. 11 No. 2)
76
John Dixon Floating M&M Doll themed Zombie routine
June 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 10)
88
Rising Bread bread zombie
2011 54
John Graham Lemon Zombie knife stuck in lemon
2021 277