Christian Fechnerは1979年のFISMインベンション部門第1位であり、ローベル・ウーダンの熱心な研究家としても知られています。
こちちは1988年に出版された『Soirées Fantastiques』の英語版です。写真2枚目デックとのサイズ比較でおわかりいただける通りバカでかいです。このサイズで2巻セット。1冊目は430ページ以上あり、Fechner考案の本物の魔法のようなイリュージョンが生まれた経緯や開発秘話、製作段階の苦労などが細かく記載されいています。
2冊目はパラパラ漫画ミニ本(イリュージョンが楽しめます)が3冊と各種ギミック製作のための細かい図面が用意されております。
この中の1つでも実際に製作し、営業へ行けば一晩で元は取れます。
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ACTI SOLANGE'S BOOK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BY WAY OF PREFACE
THE FIRST MAGICIANv
THE ACT: IBM CONVENTION-BRIGHTON GALA-SHOW SEPTEMBER 13 - 1980
APPEARANCE
IN A ROCKING CHAIR
CHRISTIAN FECHNER'S
VANISHING TV SET
THE VANISHING TV
HERVÉ -JUNIOR: THE SKELETON NON SMOKERS KEEP AWAY
THE APPEARING CIGAR
BOOMERANG CIGAR
THE VANISHING DECK
CIGAR INTO A CANDLE, CANDLE INTO A CIGAR
THE VANISHING CIGAR OR THE ONE ARM HOLD-OUT THE SILK VANISHING CIGAR
LEVITATING THE CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE
THE LEVITATING BAR STOOL LEVITATION OF THE LAMP
LEVITATION ON A BAR STOOL
THE REAPPEARING TV SET
APPEARANCE OF WATER AND FISH IN AN EMPTY AQUARIUM
THE NEW VANISHING TV
INTERMISSION
ACTⅡ SIMON JARDIN: A MAGIC... SABBATICAL FOREWORD
"FIRST ENCOUNTER"
BOOK I
SELF LEVITATION
1: The Embryo Stage
2: The General Conception and Design
3: The Man In The Iron Leg
4: Where there's Movement, There's Life
5: A Question of Amperes
6: Nuts and Cones
7: The Control Systems
8: Safety Devices Batteries and WARNING!
BOOK II
THE DISAPPEARING TV
9: A TV in Pieces the table
10: Precision and Weight Effects
11: In Which We are Introduced to the Bar
12: The Inner TV Shell
13: The "Magic Carpet", projector, and "Monster".
BOOK III
LEVITATIONS AND COUNTER-LEVITATIONS
14: Bar-table, Bar Stool, and Levitation : the Theory
15: Levitation of the Bar Stool : in Practice
16: The Carrara Marble Lamp
17: First Aid for a Lamp
18: S.O.S. Batteries in Peril!
BOOK IV
THE APPEARANCE OF CHRISTIAN FECHNER 175
19:The Birth of an Apparition
20: A Shell for a Rocking Chair
21: Hans-Walter Müller's House
22: Firing Pins, Curtains and Smoke
23: Weighing the Bottles
24: The Rue Pernéty Tests.
BOOK V
HERVE LELIEVRE'S CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE
25: Beneath the Waterless Ice
26: The Glass and the Bottle
27:Christian's Concoctions
28: Hesitations of an Invisible Wine Waiter.
BOOK VI
HISTORIC REHEARSALS
29: The Néva Mansion: A Stage of Dreams
30: Les Bouffes Parisiens
31: The last Nights of Liane de Pougy
32: Bound For "Glory".
BOOK VII
BRUSSELS 1979 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
33: Knightly Vigil in a Truck
34: The Championships Seen from the Wings
35: Laurel Wreaths and a Gala.
BOOK VIII
AFTER BRUSSELS
36: Turmoil in the Grevin Museum
37: Dijon, City of Smoke
38: A Magic Laboratory
39: Floating Ladies, Doors and Diamonds
40: A New Bone Shaker
41: Hervé the Skeleton and Christian Fechner's Cigar
42: Remote Controls Made to Order
43: An Unexpected Reappearance
44: The Use of a Famous Die
45: Pure Speed
46: A Question of Crates.
BOOK IX
"SENTIMENTAL JOURNEYS"
47: The Revue at the Ecole Normale
48: Brighton on the Sea
49: Germany and Lausanne : Cancelled
50: Tis only Goodbye, not Farewell...
INTERMISSION
ACT III MAGIC FOR THOSE I ADMIRE...
THE GREAT SECRET
DEDICATIONS
"HELP"!
VIDEO MIND-READING
MUSICAL CARD... THROW...
SELF LEVITATION
THE FLOATING BALL WHICH LEVITATES THE MAGICIAN
FISH ACT AND AQUARIUM
VIDEO MANIPULATION
FROM BUATIER DE KOLTA'S DIE TO THE EXPANDING TV!
THE PACHA'S DREAM
THE VISIBLY
SHRINKING HORSE
THE CHANGING PORTRAIT
SAWING A WORMAN IN HALF
HORIZONTALLY
THE TWIN'S MIRROR
PIANO LEVITATIONS
THE PACHA TRANSFIXED 1988
APPEARANCE OF PARTNER IN 4 TV SETS
HAPPY MEMORIES
A WORD OF GOODBYE
STOP PRESS
1: Levitation on A Bar Stool
2: The Levitating Bar Stool
3: The Skeleton
4: Herve Junior Bar ON Whells
5: The TV Table
6: The Champagne Bottle
7: The Bar Table
8: The Stage Carpet
9: The Aquarium
10: The New Vanishing TV
11: The Rocking Chair
12: The Levitating Lamp
13: The Reappearing TV