World Magic Awards - Part 1 - Magicians - Jeff Hobson, Franz Harary, Max Maven - 2000

we're at a junkyard in Los Angeles come here I want to show you something tonight I'm going to attempt a most dangerous escape I'm gonna be bound by chains hand and foot we'll show you how we do that later I'm gonna be locked in the trunk of this car but that's not the escape to spend it above the car is that truck 30 feet above the car the release mechanism set a 30-second timer if I'm not out of cheese out of the trunk 30 seconds that truck is gonna barrel down and smash this cars smithereens that's not the hard part the car is rigged with explosive charges when that truck hits well you get the idea we got a lot of preparation to do so I'll see you later from Los Angeles California it's the world magical war tonight master magician press Ferrari will risk being burned alive then you'll attempt to make a russian battle tank vanish into thin air and he'll template with one of the most dangerous magic tricks of all time plus it's the spectacular magic of the world-renowned duo some adjustments then pinged illusionist I Ella dazzles with cutting-edge magic never before seen on television and the hilarious antics of comic magician and Alonso in a world-class performance the amazing the impossible the unbelievable feats of magic by tough magician Jolie Clark a death-defying escape that has a five-ton truck set to fall on this car with magician will Tremont locked inside the trunk all this and more of the world's most amazing magic as the top magicians on the planet gathered together tonight for the world magic Awards and now here is the host of our show Jonathan face [Applause] thank you very much and good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to the world magic Awards the biggest night of the year magic you know not too long ago the technology we have today would have seemed like magic now we're here to honor the world's top practitioners in the ancient and more popular than ever art of magical illusion the Award winners tonight have been selected by the prestigious world magic Awards Board of Directors and represent the greatest achievement in 14 categories plus a special award for outstanding lifetime contribution to the art of magic these are magicians who have perfected their craft to the highest level of excellence the one thing you won't see this evening long boring acceptance speeches will also be seeing reality throughout the evening the reigning Miss world USA Natasha Alice so prepare to be amazed and let's begin by presenting our first Award winners they're unique in the world of magic they're a team who has been dazzling audiences the world over with state-of-the-art illusions honed to perfection ladies and gentlemen this year's winner of the award for best illusionists the Majestics [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] winners of the award for best illusionist the logistics coming up on the world magic Awards front Ferrari flakes with fire see this first ever attempt to keep thinking and make it out alive or he's burned to a crisp depends magician ayala faces his own mortality with his dangerous double buzzsaw escape attempt that promises to be a float shape plus the hilarious antics of comic magician head Alonso in a world premiere performance featuring head and some of his favorite magical assistants and the impossible feats of magic by one of the world's top magicians the dazzling Tony Clark then a daring escape attempt that hits a five-ton struck suspended three stories in the air against top escape artist thrill free lunch as with the rest of the world a lot of today's magic is based on cutting-edge technology but some artists have dedicated themselves to perfecting the crafts most revered traditions ladies and gentlemen winner of this year's award for best classic magic Tony Clark [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the next award goes to not one magician but three working together as a team this tree about static performers have taken magic to new heights there this year's winners of the award for best magic review ladies and gentlemen behold the dazzle and sparkle of Carnival of wonders mark Kalin and ginger and Jeff Hobson [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] every year one magician is selected for his overall achievement and magical performance the artists you're about to meet is one of the most amazing performers in his field impressing audiences all over the world ladies and gentlemen our magician of the year from karate [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] winner of the award for magician of the Year frogs Harare Wow the next magician you're going to see is a master at getting out of tough situations running out of an exploding building seconds to spare dropping into a shark tank with his hands tied or being suspended in midair with a burning rope as his lifeline and he considers that the easy stuff tonight he's inside right here right now ladies and gentlemen the winner of the award for best escape artist Thomas Solomon Webster's dictionary defines escape in this way to avoid some danger or evil but mr. Webster in his dictionary give us no definition for how to escape this is good since the last thing we need are prisoners reading dictionaries hoping to escape handcuffs regulation handcuffs as used on dangerous criminals now there are many theories about escape artists for example people believe that in order to escape I must carry a large assortment of tools tools I'll let you be the judge of that [Applause] but there are those that would doubt the authenticity of these handcuffs and it is for those doubters in the audience ladies and gentlemen that tonight I will submit to an official handcuffing by the Los Angeles Police Department [Applause] tonight two officers in combination will fasten me into five of the most secure restraints on the planet all right first of all we have pre-arranged nothing before this performance is that correct these handcuffs are the absolute real thing I am NOT the owners of them and I have not seen them before tonight's performance correct that is good sir do you have the keys to these various restraints you may begin the history of restraints and handcuffs for that matter is really the history of the human condition since the beginning of time a man has sought to punish his fellow man unfortunately he's become quite creative in his methods torture isolation and iron shackles originally of Spanish origin word of the success of these metal restraints soon swept across Europe and soon it involved the finest craftsmen of the age good excellent ladies and gentlemen let's keep both of these officers our round of applause [Applause] what would a handcuffing be without a 20 pound ball and chain and the other officer has a padlock here and if you can just padlock that chain to the front excellent and now for a little escapist entertainment [Music] [Music] [Applause] winner of the award for best escape artist Thomas Sullivan it's doing the winner of the best up-and-coming magician someone you've already met this evening will Tremont who is preparing for a dangerous escape talk about explosives these guys are set in gasoline and black-powder bombs with impact up things in simple terms what that means when that truck it's the car got boom everything blows don't go away pieces of military hardware achieve 54 battle tank world without magicians on suwari once these barriers for Russians 5 weapon then hi Alice dazzles with some of the most amazing magic ever performed on television and the comedy magic event Alonzo plus the preparations continue on will Tremont skin sing escaped as I was technicians wire explosives to a par with a five-ton truck hanging overhead [Applause] but you're about to see one of my favorite forms of magic and it's also the most difficult to master it's called sleight of hand or close-up magic and it takes years of practice to get it right this year's award winner for best close-up magic has definitely got it right ladies and gentlemen Brian Gillis [Applause] all right you guys already know if you can't see the coins in the way they're arranged do you have a bad seat watch you've never seen me before now you'd be more excited look all you have to do is try to remember how many I have in each hand did you remember three and two I'll do it again lunch one two three - did you see that four on one hoodie handle squeeze them tight in fists put your fist right over here what's your name Kimberly hold them tight and I'll hold them tight so I can't get the fifth one in there now remember you've got four I've got one opening hand counter look I'll make it easy I'll start at the beginning I'll go slower so you can follow back to the start once again that's two three that's five altogether how many here there's five altogether point two one pick a corn select one may I use your left hand watch I'm gonna take that out of your hand without you knowing about it yeah make it difficult squeeze it so I can't get it real tight that's okay hold it tight what's your name and we hold it tight I'm gonna use another coin this is good for distracting people we're gonna distract Henry it's from Uganda it's in East African ten cent piece that's copper it's got a hole in it you don't seem too often while you're looking at it I took the half dollar out of your hand that's your cue squeeze it again real tight put your other hand right about here palm up same level as this now if something falls in that hand you catch it when I say three close that open that see understand constantly concentrate on that and on the count of three one two three when I look at this hand actually open this up alright no no open this up open this up then use fist your right hand this'll be easier now let's put Henry's benefit forget about this we use one hand can you all see the palm of his hand when you hear me say three grab the coin quickly you ready watch one two three little quicker I'm not gonna leave it there well you see it approaching anticipated grab it out of my hand look at your hand concert real fast watch one two open hand look at it you see it goes up instead of down here you can keep it for a souvenir till I show you a card trick now it's important that you realize that I don't use trick cards I'd rather I get the credit don't say anything I'm gonna riffle through as the cards go by you pick one in your mind but don't pick the end one but you do have to see it otherwise it's not arbitrary did you see one pick one in your mind did you see one did you pick one out did you see one I go fast I want to see a lot of cards pick one in your mind did you see one did you pick one did you see one did you pick one alright nobody picked the end one did they concentrate on the value whether it's higher or lower than a 70 I'll doing that yours was lower than a 7 it was a 3/3 of clothes you had an 8 8 of clubs you had a 6 6 of diamonds you had a 5 5 of Hearts he had a jack jack of spades you had a King of Diamonds yours was a 10 10 of Hearts you had a 4 4 of clubs I got them all [Applause] I do it quickly I'll do it I'll do it a little bit slower as the cards go but you watch to pick one in your mind as they go by not the end of one you know I'm gonna do it differently this time did you see what okay I'll do it differently what was it now you have to have seen the card yeah King of Hearts I always keep the King of Hearts in my pocket you didn't see the King of Hearts what was yours seven of clubs [Applause] say stop as I go through remember that card can we say stop is that okay say stop little quicker note okay I like ladies that have trouble saying something is that rough go through it just is that okay I'd do it again if you didn't like it will do one more use your left thumb break them like that and peek at a card this makes it fair that was quick you have a little thumb so I try to remember the number in the suit all right some possibly keep track of four cards I'll ask you one at a time what they were and then I'll try to find it'll mix them up try to find each one a little differently but I'll find it you want to cut up her cellphone we'll watch what she does she'll find your card quickly fast fast fast when she did this she found your card the one he peeked at what was it diam diamond five I've got yours in my pocket what was it Jack of Diamonds just call me Brian what was yours six of diamonds take a card out of the deck just pull one out because I couldn't find the six of diamonds that's why I wanted you to find it for me what was yours five of spades cut them real fast [Applause] I'm I'm I'm the best I've ever seen show you one more thing a little bit you know what this is this is triple like Star Trek if you rub this you get two of them I'll hold on to that you squeeze it real tight in a fist like this put your fist right up here shake your fist just like that you've got both of them squeezing both real tight put your fist all the way I've got another one no no no don't shake it you've got two I've got one shake your fist now slowly open up you've got all three this one goes in my pocket so we had three put one away how many to be left there's three squeeze them real tight real tight but fist all the way over here hey what's your name Ken if I invisibly take them out but in my pocket how many do you think you have left how many do you think of they're for real three open hand twenty-one [Applause] the little dog [Applause] now a lot of times a lot of times when I do this stuff I keep the watch but ken is so nice I think maybe I can I mean Henry is so nice let's give them all nice round of applause winner of the award for this go supplemented Brian Julie now please welcome back the winner of tonights best Mentalist Awards max made [Applause] Jonathan max maven several hours ago Jonathan I asked you to think of a famous person you did that was as much as I directed you I said it could be living or dead it could be someone local someone from another country you said not too obscure I wanted someone that you could visualize that's the only restriction I made I could you went into a room by yourself I did you wrote whoever this person is you wrote her name on a business card I did you've sealed that into an envelope I sealed it into an envelope you taped up the envelope I taped the envelope myself you put it in another envelope I put it inside another envelope and then you take that out I taped the second envelope and you have signed in any plastic tape so you cannot change I happen to have said envelope now this is a security envelope it's impossible to see what's inside and it's still signed I have not touched this envelope you have since I mean I did all the work and have you told anyone else who this person is that you're thinking of I chose not to yeah I'm not sure if it's male or female but but it's clean the face is clean shaven it is so so it's not so you didn't pick me or you or you I nobody avoided both of us okay um is this person wearing a hat usually I know what the image is well I'm gonna try you know the other magicians on the show would use a magic wand I'm going to use a magic marker all right let me give him the hat that you were visualizing are we in business yes so far so good let's see if I can get I've been reading my mail that hasn't been out of you're out of your sight or out of your possession I saw you walking around with it this afternoon in your breast pocket but I kept it budget what least of all me okay I tell you what I am going to train with you you hold that don't look at it cuz that's the Big Finish and let's take a look okay Jonathan's signature across the tape so there's no way it could have been opened without your knowing it okay and then on the inside go down there's a second envelope Oh perfect he folded it over so there's no way to get in all right let's try this it gets you to work for a security firm this is very alright now if we can just I want to do this without tearing up up the business cards and we have no evidence of okay here's the business cards of my business card so this is like a valuable souvenir him later and on this side it is a baseball player can we see this Sammy Sosa Sammy Sosa big homerun King yeah yeah we hold bad [Applause] I'm going to attempt the most dangerous escape I'm gonna be bound by chains hand and foot we'll show you how we do that later I'm gonna be locked in the trunk of this car but that's not the escape to spend then above the car is that truck 30 feet above the car the release mechanism set a 30-second timer they find that out of the cheese out of the trunk for 30 seconds that truck is gonna barrel down and smash this car smithereens but that's not the hard part the car is rigged with explosive charges when that truck hits or you get the idea we got a lot of preparation to do so I'll see you later they say that everything is for sale in the new rocker so we thought what better place the Moscow to undertake one of the world's most amazing magical feats and it was quite simple actually as we explained to our Russian military friends we didn't even want to buy a 24,000 pound tank we only wanted to rent it there was only one tiny detail that we left out franceour ari was going to attempt to make it disappear and we only hope that if he did make it disappear he would also be able to bring it back Thank You Roger more part 2 of the world magic Awards will be on screen next Friday night at 8:00 here next on thrive no big sibling watching you know lifelines no need to eat rodents to survive and no questions about his strength it's all good and greed here in moments [Music] you [Applause]

Channel: MagicWeek

Views: 2,410

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: World Magic Awards, The Majestix, Tony Clark, Mark Kalin & Jinger, Jeff Hobson, Franz Harary, Thomas Solomon, Brian Gillis, Max Maven, magicweek, magician, illusionist, dove magic

Id: s_FulDJh6es

Length: 44min 31sec (2671 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 07 2019