You Asked For It SET - Rare TV Magic Acts

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You Asked For It: Rare TV Magic Acts on Four DVDs! Over eight hours of footage on four DVDs for optimum viewing quality, 67 classic magic performances! Performers include Blackstone, Dante, Frakson, Tarbell, Birch, Jack Kodell, and other greats Illusions, challenge escapes, manipulation, and more! Between 1950 and 1959, the American television program "You Asked For It" presented dozens of magic acts, and these DVDs preserve 67 of them. You'll find not only priceless historic footage of prominent illusionists, but also a time capsule of some of the best (and often oddest) illusions, escapes, mindreading, and manipulation of the time! In the FOUR DVDs of You Asked For It: Rare TV Magic Acts you'll find Blackstone's Buzz Saw, Dante's Sawing, Kuda Bux's blindfold act, Jack Kodell's parakeets, Tarbell's Eyeless Vision, Frakson's famous cigarette act, "Think-a-Drink" Hoffman's any-drink-called-for routine, and hours of other delightful and weirdly fascinating acts. The roots of extreme escape challenges are here, plus much more of interest to both the performer and historian, now in convenient