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The Canadians: Dai Vernon

Dai Vernon, Patrick Watson, Max Maven, David Ben, Ricky Jay, Herb Zarrow, John Carney, Steve Freeman

November 2017

This documentary was produced to explore the life and magic of Dai Vernon (David Frederick...

Ricky Jay - Wild Weird and Wonderful (Thornton)

Ricky Jay

October 2016

Ricky Jay performs on The Magic Palace

Ricky Jay - Phoenix Aces

Ricky Jay

May 2018

Ricky Jay performs “The Laughing Kings,” which is also known as Cliff Green’s “The Aces of...

Ricky Jay

Ricky Jay

May 2016

Ricky Jay performs on The Magic Palace

Ricky Jay - Difficult and Deadly Watermelon

Ricky Jay

May 2018

Ricky Jay, the American sleight-of-hand artist and magic historian, is famous for his ability to...

Ricky Jay Difficult and Deadly Watermelon

Ricky Jay, the American sleight-of-hand artist and magic historian, is famous for his ability to throw playing cards. In this performance, he has set his sights on the deadly watermelon.

Chantatachán was a program produced for Telemadrid in 1992-93. We would like to thank Juan Tamariz and Luis Piedrahita for making this content available.

Ricky Jay The Laughing Kings

Ricky Jay performs “The Laughing Kings,” which is also known as Cliff Green’s “The Aces of Spades as a Sorcerer's Apprentice.” Ricky also called this routine “Laughing Aces.” Thank you to Dustin Stinett for the correciton (March 2020).

Chantatachán was a program produced for Telemadrid in 1992-93. We would like to thank Juan Tamariz and Luis Piedrahita for making this content available.

Dai Vernon The Spirit of Magic

This documentary was produced to explore the life and magic of Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner, 1894-1992), the most influential magician of the twentieth century—possibly of all time.

Directed by Daniel Zuckerbrot

Narrated by Patrick Watson.

Featuring interviews and performances by (in order of appearance) Max Maven, Derek Verner, Jackie Flosso, Herb Zarrow, David Ben, Edward Verner, Ricky Jay, John Carney, Persi Diaconis, Steeve Freeman. 

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