Magic at War

Introduction In my presentation on Louis Lam’s life, I demonstrated a colour changing deck routine. A spectator freely selected a card from a red backed deck, and its back changed to blue. Its matching card, taken from a blue backed deck, changed to red. When the decks were examined, every card in each pack had also changed back colour.  Watch the performance here: The routine combined two of Louis Lam’s colour changing deck effects: The Movie Colour Cards and Coloro . Both are explained below in Louis’ own words. [1] To combine the two effects, I made several changes. The first change was to use only one deck for The Movie Colour Cards . Instead of using a double backer and secretly reversing it, I placed an ordinary card from the differently coloured deck on top, so a blue backed deck appeared to be red backed. I reinforced this impression with the Hindu Shuffle Display. I then attached a small piece of double-sided tape to the back of that red card. [2] After the displ...