Paul Daniels Orange Tree automata illusion-No Spoilers
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- Invented by Robert Houdin Father of modern magic in France.Performed by Paul Daniels on his BBC Tv series.Refurbished by John Gaughan.
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A beautiful piece of mechanical precision engineering, and yes I know exactly how its done, this was performed by Daniels to show off a piece of antique magic, when this was first performed by Robert Houdin oranges were rare and expensive never mind seeing them being grown in front of your eyes, must have looked like witchcraft at the time. brilliant to see it recreated and performed on TV. Simply brilliant.
im a black cab driver in london picked him up twice and you know what? a really top bloke 100%
I never feel worthy of watching Paul's magic, it's always so exceptionally good and often times very beautiful.
Was thinking the same! I really just enjoy watching the orange tree videos to enjoy the mechanics of the automata.
That tree is absolutely gorgeous! I love the way how the oranges start appearing and the top one reveals the ring that the lady thought was smashed! Wow! £3.000 pounds for that ring! Phew!
That was a fucking nice presentation! Your showmanship was so relaxed and confident that it feels like real magic, even for me, a magician :D
Wow, that is really cool! Back then, that mechanical trick must have been awesome, it still is. It's true that once you know how something works, it's not as wonderful anymore, but to make something like this is just awesome.
I can remember watching this years and years ago, and being absolutely fascinated by it. It's a lovely trick, and reminiscent of Penn and Teller's watch/hammer/fish trick too, now I think of it!
Great showmanship + great talent= great trick!
That tree is absolutely beautiful. What a mechanical wonder.
As for the Orange Tree, its anyone's guess, but I suppose he has found a way stop the growth of an orange until the very last step which is sprout. Once the tree figures it has enough fluids to produce the oranges, which is when the box is turned, it sprouts.
That's probably it, but it's possible to do that trick without someone backstage. (The ring is removed, yet still felt through the same mechanism as the "unbroken match" trick. From there, when putting the knife down behind the tree, the ring could be attached to a hook, pulled up the tree, and onto the hankie.)
Loved this performance. He also did a bit of Malini on another show, didn't he?
Would have liked to see him pay homage to other great magicians 'in-character'.
Thanks for posting!
yes, the ring was genuinely wrapped in the hanky and put into the box with it.
The Marvelous Orange Tree also plays a central role in the movie The Illusionist.
After he put the ring and the handkerchief in the casket (suspiciously near the wall) he stood in front of it and distracted attention with the pistol. Plenty of time to open a concealed door in the wall and remove the ring. I don't know if that was how it was done but it easily could have been.
Actually Isaac Fawkes invented the growing apple tree (similar to this) around the 1700's, then Chevalier Giuseppe Pinetti presented the first Orange tree illusion over half a century later and few decades before Robert Houdin did. Robert Houdin only popularized it, he didn't invent it.
Nevertheless, this is one of my favorite illusions to watch and I would love to recreate this one day!
Wow !, I thought the illusionist effect didn´t exist, thank´s a lot for this vid.
Right. In Houdin's real version, he placed a seed into a pot with soil, and the entire tree grew out, then sprouted flowers, then oranges, which could be passed out. That's damned good for clockwork.
At - 2:12 - he stands in front of the small glass case blocking any view of it. It would be easy for part of his team to switch the ring at that point...thus perfecting the illussion.
Interesting to see Basil Fawlty in the audience at 0:05.
that tree is soo cool
i saw something like that in a film about a magician. the one in the film was probly just animated but i didnt think it would realy exist...
@icedbread Agreed - he's an easy target, but performed some of the greatest stuff during an era when magic was seen as old fashioned and out of date. Superb stuff.
Those are some fantastic muttonchops.
No I didn't contradict myself. I am agreeing with you. Diamonds are both hard and brittle - they will shatter if struck with a hammer.
Unlike hardness, which only denotes resistance to scratching, diamond's toughness or tenacity is only fair to good. Toughness relates to the ability to resist breakage from falls or impacts. Due to diamond's perfect and easy cleavage, it is vulnerable to breakage. A diamond will shatter if hit with an ordinary hammer. The toughness of natural diamond has been measured as 2.0 MPa m1/2, which is good compared to other gemstones, but poor compared to most engineering materials. (Wikipedia)
Ehrich Weiss - Ehrich was his fist name - later known as Harry Houdini.
the ring was kept in the cage under it so you can a little hight above there
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Diamonds will shatter if struck hard enough. They're hard but not indestructible - otherwise you wouldn't be able to cut them.
I dont know why you are so excited. Whats the big thing in this show? I really can't understand. Is it all about how the ring moved from the small box to a tree? Answer me please ;)
Diamonds are so hard that you couldn't smash one to pieces with a hammer, so I don't know why they were worried.
Wasn't this in the illusionist? - Why does he say "Just for those who thought it was all mechanical" - cut an orange? He wound it up on a timer around 4:50secs, you can hear it. Paul Daniel has great patter accompanied by his gags but he contradicted! I mean you do not want the audience to think that you think that they are thinking that it is mechanical? do you? It is like going into a shop/store telling the sales assistant, "Im looking not stealing" I think Paul Daniels chop cup was the best!
@yobnez A member of his team who is invisible?
what is basil fawlty doing beside that woman?
What would he need her as a plant for??? She just supplied the ring.
That's cool though....that's the trick from "The Illusionist"
@MavisRileyJunior...Thanks for the heads up :-)
Paul has a British accent, more exactly he has Yorkshire accent from east England. Don't worry it is fairly thick and a lot of people have trouble understanding it. Even people who do have english as a first language
If its so easy go make one.I'd like one.
Not quite the orange tree in The Illusionist..
light travels at about 50 mph through diamond
no the trick from the illutionist is taken from here, the original tree is much older than the film
Only in on it as far as supplying an expensive ring.
There's somebody in the fireplace...
Ah Ha....Just found the Max Malini thing too.....Another thanks!
doubt the ring even went in the box, would have been palmed and swapped either after it went in the hanky or even before.
@MavisRileyJunior no someone puts their hand through the wall and in to the bottom of the table top and switches whats in the glass with another cloth without the diamond. thus switching it. quite obvious realy
@yobnez the ring was gone before he even put it in the glass
well when houdin would do that he wouldn't show that it was clock work and would have the illousion that he could speed up and down time the dude here just showed how it actually worked
No they wont shatter with a hammer, in fact I have never heard of a diamond shattering, sure they can be cut, they are usually laser cut, back in the days people use to cut them with a hammer and chizzle, though this would take a very very long time to do.
@jmjmartin I think I uploaded him doing another .Dante illusion. Have a look.
I think you need to remember it's a magic trick.
Hammers dont break diamonds and orange trees dont grow rings!
Neither did Jim Davidson. These people raise our hopes only to dash them.
I liked the automata, I'm an engineer! Buut...ummm this is a magic show. Seemed to me like PD just wanted to feature that tree in some way, and fair enough. However the patter just sounded convoluted, and really the use of the tree seemed entirely inconsequential to the flow of the trick.
Now THAT'S Magic!
@TheLostSupport Hammers can actually smash diamonds. Diamonds are hard, but rather brittle.
@MavisRileyJunior A member of his team who is behind the wall, the other side of the small hatch that we cant see!
yeh it was originally invented by magician jean eugene robert-houdin in the 1800's
thanks anddd noo i said that i do understand it so well its amazing i love this accent i dont knoww is perfect in my ears lol
thanks for the answer
@TheLostSupport You actually have no clue how fragile is a diamond. It is the hardest elements on earth (nothing can scratch it), but precisely because of that it is also the most fragile. The harder, the weaker to shocks.
You should review your physics textbooks ;)
i want that cartie
Sorry ,
a diamond can be the hardest stone . .. it is still breakable !
@remix311 u cant expect too much from her considering he borrowed her ring
@TheStickOwnage the rest of the ring maybe? Gold can break.
what kind of accent does this magician has i can understand his English pergfectly work by word my i say english is not my first langauge but comparing the accent of a British is a lil more hard to capture and understand word by word
Oh, was that meant to be the magic bit? Pretty easy, conceal the blossoms in tubes looking similar to the leaves and the oranges in suitably shaped leaf arrangements - a gear and cam system in the box might then pull on wires to push out the blossoms and open the leaves at intervals.
Paul's greatest trick was promising to leave the UK if Labour got elected. He never went of course, prat!
it was never in the gun..
huh? 300,000 pounds is correct ($600,000) (as fraserkatie said, with an unnecesary comma after the 3) - however Paul Daniel's Magic Show ran from 1979 - 1994, so you might be able to double the amount by now
Plant or what?
@nyce2meetu No. Incorrect. He already had it sequestered away before he closed the box. So much easier than an idiot behind the wall. lol
I found this video off of wiki leaks link
@TheLostSupport Truly incorrect, smashing a diamond to pieces with a hammer is indeed possible. It is _the_ hardest substance known to man, but it is also brittle and thus possible to destroy with a simple hammer.
so easy illusion ,this woman from audience is with him , and there were 2 rings one in the gun and the 2nd at the orange tree ,, so easy illusion
@Jourell1 But i didn't have any problem...!
And my first language is not english!
@WylieWatson Oh my god it's really him!!! :D
I love this :D
Didn't you just contradict yourself? Diamonds are brittle but hard, like ice.
@mikelheron20 agreed
@mickf479 No.Orange tree.
It would be expensive! heh, although I could provide a drawing...
cant really see where your going with that comment,dont think you would ever get past the producers of Britains got talent do you geezer?
A real gent.
Did you happen to look like the lovely Debbie macgee...He probably fancied you
£3,00,000! Whew!
I figured it out.
Damn. :'(
@TheTrilbyWill That's what I was gonna "say"
Wow inflation!
Oh. Well then we all agree. :D
Er...lets see you make a tree that produces real oranges!!
Can't decide if that's is a pun or wether you are stupid enough to think she is in on it.
the illusion is not in the illusion so ask yourself if i was an illusionist would i see things as an illusion or just another illusionist pretending to be an illusion,EDFGTHJ
Hmmm...didn't really like that trick.
Aw, you go on and ruin it. ;)
This is just rubbish!