The fact that EVERYONE every magician that appeared on the show has been able to upload their participation on the show on their personal TH-cam account tells me that Penn and Teller are no fools, they're great human beings for allowing them to profit from those videos. MAGICAL act of kindness I say
I remember seeing one of their shows in Vegas and after the show they were outside in the foyer happy to meet and greet anyone who'd been to the show. No premium tickets, no pre-vetting, they'd happily speak (or mime!) to anyone.
@@Jax49 if you watch the show on TH-cam, you'll likely get recommendations of acts from the show that are actually uploaded by the magician to their own TH-cam channels, where they can monetize them. Penn & Teller don't seem to mind that the acts featured on their show upload their own segments to monetize. It's a rather uncommon feature in today's money first society. People might do it anyway without permission but the number of magicians featured on Fool Us who have their set uploaded to their personal TH-cam channel is far beyond average -- there are well over 100 cases, making it likely they're permitted to do so. That or, P&T aren't actively paying agencies to remove copyrighted content. Even your own act, performed on a show like Fool Us or America's Got Talent isn't owned by you, it's material owned by the show/producers/network. Your feature on it doesn't give you the rights to profit from it/use it commercially.
its so when they are discussing how tricks are done, after an act does a trick, the Judges can hear them and if need be make a judgment, if the act doesn't understand the code words and decide if someone fooled them or not
@@jerthon1 They haven't *really* done the code words thing since season 2 or 3. There were too many cases of misunderstandings or arguments or making too many guesses, so they full clear it through the judges beforehand. Now they know before they even talk to the contestant if they got it right, so the "guessing" is just for show. If its a fooler they won't even guess because they don't want to give anything away, they'll just make a joke and say "you fooled us". If they got it right, they use the code words because they know exactly what is safe to say, mostly because it's baked into the show's format. Once you notice that, it's the case 100% of the time. Either way it means they can spend the time complimenting the guest and the act, rather than spending all the time on breaking it apart. First couple seasons were wild before they had that set up.
I'm always tickled when the boys do their routines, but Teller's are always just a little bit more about the skill and the art, while Penn's are more about the show and the patter. Both greatly appreciated.
The people brought up also said a lot without uttering a word. Her miming a broken heart was instantly endearing. It's adorable how Teller not speaking pulls people into the moment.
Regardless of if you can figure out this trick or not. I have to say this is the MOST beautiful piece of magic I have EVER seen in my life. These two volunteers put their hearts and love into something and teller helped them make a happy memeory that they will never forget. It is truely toutching
So I think it's safe to say that 1) there are two paintings; 2) the image is recorded somehow - which I think is immaterial, probably the pens using the glass as a tablet or something like that, there's a dozen ways you could record her penstrokes (and they're obviously smoothed out and vectorized in the duplicate at the end) and 3) a glass pane inside the tray is dropped into the smoky box. But the actual printing is done DURING the reveal at 4:40. No need to push the glass pane forward - the projector behind the box is printing to some photosensitive material. Go frame by frame at 4:40-4:44 and you'll see individual lines/parts of the drawing appear every 3 frames, as the scanner is doing several passes to print the whole thing. Prior to this point, it's just a blank glass pane coated with a primer that can be printed to with UV light from the projector.
Loved this! Love them! Love ALL OF THIS SHOW, THESE PEOPLE, THE PENN AND TELLER!!!!! So awesome 100% of the time! Would love to meet them nice, just to shake a masters hand.
The real magic trick is how Teller joined their hands together at the very end (before they walked off the stage) and how the audience member guy was still able to quickly and effortlessly break free.
3:15 you can see Teller using a fair amount of wrist strength indicating some weight to the silver tray. 3:24 You can see how the tray has a curved lip. Hiding another glass panel in the middle of the tray allowing it to slide out easier. 4:04 pressing the lip against the glass box to keep the glass panel from sliding out. Once fully inside the glass case he releases the pressure holding the new panel and you can actually hear it slide out into the bottom of the glass cube at 4:08 . After he drops off the new panel of glass, 4:10 notice how lightweight the tray seems to be as he puts it away and how he is no longer exerting the same wrist strength. A powered arm then leans the panel up and it appears once its close enough to the front view panel. Was I close?
@@gifgoldblum7940 It was already predrawn, the people in the crowd are plants. The art is similar but if you look back at what was smashed vs. what is shown at the end there are slight differences.
@@gifgoldblum7940 Well seeing as the additional panel was brought in from offstage inside the silver tray. There is no sure way to know that method they used. But either recreated it using technology like a camera and 3d printer with a paint marker attached. Or a very talented sketch artist is watching live in the back.
@@fadedforest583 yes I'm sure Penn and Teller hire hundreds of people to watch their shows every week for years and none of them have even accidentally exposed them as frauds, it's definitely not that you can't figure out a trick performed by one of the most talented and successful career magicians in history.
I have one potential solution. Unfortunately the performance it is cut wrong which makes just looking at the footage confusing. (Evidence: 2:33 and 2:36 are different drawings. It may be double takes or just rearrangement of footage.) In either case, that giant UV lamp behind the glass box at 3:53 is a hint as to what may be going on. I do not think the painting is visible on the glass pane he puts into the glass box. Also, the way the tray is angled just below the drawing structure at 2:22 shows that there are multiple possible ways the painting could have been transferred to the secondary glass pane attached to the tray, such as laser. I e, the secondary glass tray would be prepared with a chemical that reacts to laser and gives off a certain color when exposed to UV light.
wow, finally i can see the switch.. first the stage has curtains to hide the table. an artists made a duplicate and hide it in a slot in the table. teller smashes the original panel and then places the tray exactly in the right position with the help of the small straight edge in black. the purpose is to hide the glass panel behind it then place it in the tank this is why the transparent tank has to have smoke first using an arm or string at the top of the tank to incline the panel forward to be visible
@@tihzho Dude. They ARE different. Open 2 tabs with the same video. Pause 1 video at 2:27 and one at 2:09. Look at the legs inside the pants. They are NOT the same 2:09 has a sharp angle in the crotch area where the two legs leave the abdomen. 2:27 has smooth edges in the crotch area. Its literally all you need to look at... If you still dont see it, compare the eyebrows in 2:09 and 2:27 NOT the same at all so NO They are 2 different pictures.
@@nyChannel09I have gone back and forth between the two timestamps a dozen times and I do not see any of the differences you are pointing out. The legs go through both pants, the angles are the same, the eyebrows are the same. Are you perhaps getting confused by the two different camera angles?
There are two different paintings. The painting at 2:13 and 2:28 are different (they have different eyelashes). But I have no clue when the switch happens. The original painting is the one he then smashes at 2:55 (again after a switch I do not see). And the second painting is the one he pulls from the smoke box.
I have one potential solution. Unfortunately the performance it is cut wrong which makes just looking at the footage confusing. (Evidence: 2:33 and 2:36 are different drawings. It may be double takes or just rearrangement of footage.) In either case, that giant UV lamp behind the glass box at 3:53 is a hint as to what may be going on. I do not think the painting is visible on the glass pane he puts into the glass box. Also, the way the tray is angled just below the drawing structure at 2:22 shows that there are multiple possible ways the painting could have been transferred to the secondary glass pane attached to the tray, such as laser. I e, the secondary glass tray would be prepared with a chemical that reacts to laser and gives off a certain color when exposed to UV light.
ok... I've compared every appearance of the drawing, I'm more confused than I was before. To be clear, there are two drawings. Lets call them A and B. If you screenshot every time you can see the drawing, you can tell they are different. There are several differences, but the easiest to spot is the right pant-leg, drawing A has a square pant leg, drawing B has points on the right pant leg. again, there are other markers, but this is the most obvious one at a glance. 2:06 - the woman is tracing his face, we see pant leg from drawing A. 2:27 - teller holds up the drawing for the first time, here we see drawing B, he places it in the bag we can see it is still drawing B. 2:40 - the piano crash, music stops. it's not 100% clear,, but sure as hell looks like it's already swapped to drawing A. it'd be easier to pinpoint if this were uploaded in HD not 480p 2:54 - teller holds the glass up to the anvil, hammer in place, clearly we see it's drawing A. he breaks it, we never see A again. 5:06 - the big reveal, teller holds up the restored drawing, we see drawing B. which, is an *almost* perfect copy of drawing A, but it clearly isn't the one the woman drew at 2:06. So, I'm a bit confused on why there seems to be an extra swap here. was that required for the trick, or was it multiple takes, or....? idk. regardless, it's such a beautiful performance, love it. I just wish we could see it with less editing, I'm not saying the editing changes the trick, but it gives people the chance to speculate there's editing tricks going on here when I highly doubt it's the case having been a fan of P&T for many years.
Nope, I took screenshots of the original and the "restored" panels. I then superimposed them adjusting for angular differences and they DO line up perfectly. Graphic designer here.
@@tihzhobro you can very clearly see they are not the same painting. Just compare the line at the bottom of the pant leg at 2:10 to 2:27. The line goes through at 2:27 but not in 2:10.
Open 2 tabs with the same video. Pause 1 video at 2:27 and one at 2:09. Look at the legs inside the pants. They are not the same 2:09 has a sharp angle in the crotch area where the two legs leave the abdomen. 2:27 has smooth edges in the crotch area. Its literally all you need to look at... If you still do not see it, compare the eyebrows in 2:09 and 2:27 not the same at all They are 2 different pictures.
I think they have an artist backstage? Then bring in the duplicate on the tray… they do seem a little off and if they got a good freeze frame from a cam when it was in that holder they could even have it projected on the other glass (with a backing). then quite a bit of time to recreate a simple drawing during the smashing etc. the signature is harder though. Just my thoughts but I think I’m close
@@sublim8designs427 These things can be measured. Besides, that's a rather inelegant method and P&T are not prone to using labor-intensive methods unless it's them doing the labor. (Liftoff For Love.) So no, it's definitely not a reproduction by a human. But the produced item is surely a reproduction.
@@tihzho They're noticeably different. No superimposition required, and no camera angles necessary for the difference. The strokes are simply not the same. I'm not sure if you're just not being honest about not having superimposed the two images (as I suspect) or incompetent to the point of bending your own reality (no offence - I don't think this is the case) - I suspect you're mostly trolling.
Of course, it's the trick hammer, that answers every question anyone could possibly have. It's so obvious it doesn't even warrant an explanation, it's crazy that a Penn & Teller trick could be explained so simply
Weirdest part about this for me is how at 3:29 there's no light, and then just a second later, there's been a blue light on them this whole time?? What kind of cut must have happened here
I don’t claim to know exactly how the trick was done, but I do know video editing and something I noticed is that at 3:20 the black curtain is closed behind them and there’s no table behind them. Then at 3:24 there’s a close-up shot of him pouring the glass shards onto the tray. The next shot at 3:30 the black curtain is gone and at 3:37 you can see the table behind them. Maybe this was just an edit for time, but who knows. I can guess as to how the trick is done. I think the final “repaired” glass is just a duplicate. The shards are still in the glass box, covered up by the smoke. As to how the duplicate was made to be so close to the original I’m not sure.
There could be a camera in the wooden frame, you can even see a suspicious "knot" in the wood at 1:24 That helps a lot in the duplication process. If you examine both image very carefully, you may even see very small differences.
@@attilakiss8585 More importantly, I don't believe that the returned/repaired/duplicate glass is the same because the smudges on the glass are different. Before it was bagged, there were fingerprints visible all along the upper edge, see 2:32 and 5:01 where you can see the smudges. Unless it was wiped clean, the upper edge on the repaired glass doesn't bear fingerprints. On the other hand, there's a line of prints going down the side to the signature in white and I don't see the repaired glass touched in that area. Hmm.
@@nygmustheoriginal The smudges are what got me. It looks like it was just filmed out of order. The smudges at the start look like the glass pane was pulled up from somewhere... maybe pulled up from the container?
Has to be a second piece of glass on the table that he picks up after he sets the tray down and picks up the tray again. The second piece of glass is a a close replcia of the one he smashes
Well performed. You can see the glass is double layered when it moved to the Anvil. The marker is thick enough to transfer the image. I'm guessing that the ink/marker/paint is now on the opposite side of the surviving piece of glass.
When the couple get on stage they seem to know what to do so i think they do a rehearsal first and don't show them the rest of the trick; they keep the picture from the rehearsal which will be similar enough to use as the duplicate. This is the reason Teller is kind of directing her and controlling the colour of the pens at different points.
Funny how pretty much one single person in the comments figured this one out for real and the rest are stuck arguing over editing mistakes when there were obviously two takes shot of the trick and for unknown reasons had to be combined together. Here's a few hints: The trick could probably have been performed in the early 1900's. There is nobody else involved in the trick apart from the three on stage. Only one person on stage is performing an act. Biggest of all: items on stage are placed the way they are for a reason, the tray and the glass in particular.
Yeah something fishy is happening here. I was looking at before and after the smash, which look identical. But her drawing is different from what he holds up. Unless they filmed it twice or something?
@@busby10 Filming twice is very common for a tv production to get different camera angles. Make sure to get the dress rehearsal in case something goes wrong in the live show.
My best theory is that the drawing lady is an “instant stooge” being shown what to draw by a reflection on the glass. This is why her head has to be positioned just right in the cradle. In this way she makes a drawing that is very similar but not the same. The smash one drawing and use the tray to swap the other in.
P&T do not allow stooges on the show, and I suspect they would hold themselves to the same burden. I strongly believe this effect requires no coaching.
2:27 and 2:54 you can see that they are not the same drawing. Looks like some kind of switch as it is going into the bag, I can't see it happen though!
@@rudolfgernd8760The drawings at these 2 timecodes are different. For instance, look at the swish at the end of the guests signature. it's at a different angle. When you look at details like overhangs and gaps, it's easy to see that it's a recreation at that time.
I took screen shots and the drawings are identical. I think the glass with the drawing was never smashed. Somehow he let it slide out of that bag and left another piece of glass get smashed. Then at the end it’s under or inside that tray.
@@TerrapinCreations666 they are not identical. Look at the picture while she is drawing it and then look at the next screen before he puts it in the bag. They are two different pieces.
Fabulous illusion. Those who say there's only one way it could be done aren't imaginative enough. The drawing is not a duplicate, but there is a duplicate of something else. (There are also two bags, but they're both in plain view at the same time, so I don't think that's a secret.) The ink from the markers appears to be UV reactive. That may just be to make the drawing highly visible on stage, but it could also be helpful in making the drawing appear in the box. I don't think there's an edit between multiple takes; it's just unfortunate the black curtain was pulled during a close-up. (Then again, there's a pile of what looks to be broken glass on the stage floor, so maybe some was spilled accidentally and that was edited out. If so, I don't think that edit is relevant to the method.) There's a rail on the final table to make it easy for Teller to place the tray in precisely the right location. The curved lip on the tray is to ensure all of the shards slide off when Teller withdraws the tray. Oops, Teller touches a button on the back of the fog machine a split second after the fog starts coming out because it's actually controlled by someone offstage. (The fog machine fires a second time without Teller touching it doing anything.) The fog leaks out the back of the transparent box by design. The transparent box is deeper (in two senses of the word) then it might seem. Ask yourself how and when the anvil was removed from the stage.
Well this is an unofficial upload ripped from a bootleg and designed to upload hundreds of videos as fast as possible before youtube pulls it for copyright claims. If this was an official channel it'd certainly be higher quality.
These days I would say the marks digitally record the image. Available tech. It is printed on a transparant in the back and placed in the box before the curtain goes up.
50% of the trick for me is obvious - there are almost 3 paintings. The "first" one is shown at @2:06 . Notice the two green dashes on the right eye (from out point of view). Then when the magician removes the "painting" @2:28 they are gone. Do notice that the magician removes, for no aparent reason, the head-resting-peg @2:23. The third painting is shown at the end and it's just a copy of the second. I believe that @2:24 the trick has already been perfomed and everything else is just spectacle.
Almost certainly the variations in images are caused by them having to film the trick more than once and for some reason needing to combine footage from the two tricks.
So, the editing makes sussing it all out kinda moot, but anyway: - pinhole camera in the lady’s chin rest -> takes picture of the drawing that’s used for duplication off-stage. At least that’s my guess since there are definitely duplicates in play, and that chin rest is perfectly positioned to get a flat-on photo of the plate with minimal distortion. It’s suspiciously dead center and perpendicular to the plate. If the idea is to “trace the face”, then that’s where you’d want your eyes to be, not your chin (hence why they add that stick figure body to make the drawing seen centered). Also, it doesn’t detach like the other chin rest, and is just designed differently. Seems like a hassle to make two different chin-rests, no? The setup is supposed to look a little roughly-hewn and slapped-together out of plywood and off-cuts, but someone took extra care with that chin rest. - anyway, given a clean photo, I’d just put a piece of glass on top of a screen backstage and trace off that. No need to think glass printers or super-talented artists copying freehand or motion tracking pens or anything high-tech. Just make sure the photo’s shown actual size on the screen and start tracing. - the glass Teller smashes is weirdly _not_ the one we saw her actually draw, though that’d be simplest. It’s close, but it’s different. What’s strange is that the one that gets smashed _is_ identical to the one they get to keep. So the one she actually drew is just… gone? but there are two duplicates? With all the editing, it’s hard to tell how that swap occurred. Or if things were simply shot at two different times, the footage is mixed, and they’re stooges. Point is, the simple thing would be to let her draw, smash that original drawing, and send them home with the duplicate. Seems like cheating to actually destroy the original, but it looks like she’s sent home with a duplicate either way you cut it. It’s like “look, I can’t actually make _your_ card reappear, but I can produce close copies of it all day” - um, ok? - I suspect there are bits cut out of the act. There’s the obvious jump where the curtain’s just suddenly pulled aside revealing the table. Might just be edited for time, but it also looks like there are glass shards on the floor now. We don’t see any glass get dropped, but maybe there was a step where some glass gets dropped as a misdirect? But for what? - what’s obvious enough is that the surviving glass plate is placed in the fish tank by Teller who’s holding it under the tray. He picks it up from under the table, right under where he’d placed the tray _just so_ against a little guide. The tank is notably recessed into the tabletop, so you can’t see the bottom edge of the plate - or all the glass shards he dumped in. Those should be visible if the tank wasn’t recessed. Some mechanism takes care of tilting the plate forward for the reveal.
I think it has to do with branding. Penn & Teller is also the name of the performance group, not just the individuals. The trick he's performing was likely designed by the both of them.
Are we sure this the official Penn & Teller channel? Most of the videos have just a couple hundred views. Show as popular and successful as it is, that just seems... odd.
The images look identical, I made screenshots and compared them. My best guess is that the pens electronically register the movements. A technical device is in the tray and colors a glass plate hidden in the tray.
that would be super cool; i figured it was some sort of carbon-copy type deal but no freaking clue how that'd work through glass. curious about how thick the material was
I think it doesn't even need to he in the tray. It just needs to to be in the glass container with trick ink. If it's up against the front it looke like nothing is in it.
They aren't identical. Look at the final image pant leg on the right side of the glass compared to the original drawing, there's a mark on the final one that isn't on the original. Still a very cool trick!!
@@sko19sko the drawing at the beginning, she drew the pant leg in one continuous motion without picking up the marker. The pant leg at the end was definitely drawn one line at a time with the bottom hem of the pants drawn last, so it sticks out a little farther than the other two lines.
Damn. I wish I knew how he did this. Please tell me it was simpler than I can imagine. The simple miss directions are so much more annoying and amazing when you can perform them. I know that this show has been edited and even multiple takes may have been performed even they might have ask these two to come back for another round to do another shot of the same trick but so we don't see everything on tv. I mean back when In Florida the Nickelodeon shot many days with different groups of people in the background but you never new that on tv.
I'm about 90% certain that the differences in images are irrelevant and just remnants of having to have repeated the trick. Most important details seem to be the position of the first glass on the table compared to the position and stance of the tray underneath, at 2:16 clearly visible. Perfectly set up to slide a clear film down and onto the tray after Teller moves the bag away and releases the glass panel. The second important detail is at 4:03 where he slides the tray down in a very specific way, a way that would allow a clear film on it to stay upright against the glass.
I'm going to throw in my guess. I think the fact that her drawing looks different to what teller holds up before smashing is just due to them doing a couple of takes for TV. If you compare what he holds up to the audience pre-smash to what he holds up at the end its identical to my eye. I'm ruling out it just straight up being an editing trick as these guys do this trick live. I also think this would be really hard to freehand replicate so accurately. Because it matches not just in the line work, but the position on the glass. Also nothing happens in a magic trick for no reason. Why does she have a chin wrest? There really isn't any need for it. I think her chin wrest has a camera in it. You can see it has two screw holes underneath the chin piece while his has none. One of these screw holes actually contains a small camera that is streaming the image to make an exact copy on a new piece of glass. This could be done by just printing it onto clear film and slapping it on a new bit of glass, or some sort of plotter pen that replicates it exactly, or tracing the image. I think this is done behind the curtain and then left in a compartment just underneath the bench top. Then Teller collects it when he picks up the tray to tip the shattered glass in. Notice there is a stop on top of the bench so he puts the tray down in exactly the right place to then pick it and the replica up at the same time without it looking weird. He deposits the replica in the tank and then the giant light they had behind it illuminates it for the reveal.
I think they hand-make a reproduction. The scene starts with the glass locked in place. So there could be a video camera off stage with a long lens preset perfectly to display the image on a large TV with another glass same size lined up on top of the TV. The whole thing about tracing on glass is you can trace on glass.
Take a look at the tray below the stand where the glass is held at the beginning, around 2:13. I'm pretty sure it's down there and in that position for a good reason. As if something like a transparent film could maybe slide down from the stand and end up resting on the tray. Combine that with the way Teller slides the tray down with the glass shards later and you'll be getting close I'd say.
I really don’t want to tell you how this trick is done, so I’m going to say it in codes. Ok. There was two people that crossed the road and one got smashed.
The one thing they taught in their early career is that one may never trust the camera perespective. There were way too many camera cuts to trust that what was edited to video was all that Teller did.
@@grantkohler7612Yes. The audience picture doesn’t match the restored. There was a close up cut of the restored shown before the break. That way the home audience would see identical pictures. It’s one thing to fool live audience. It’s another to fool tv audience. Well done Penn and Teller!
camera in the wood @ 1:24 takes an image and then later it somehow is duplicated on the glass either by a machine underneath the table and the slotted in from the bottom. (The broken glass is still in the box covered up by the smoke.
@@YouMakeItHappen yea ok i see theres a possibility there a camera in the wood of the girl ( 1 of those 2 holes is sus) and can look straight at drawing but what going on in the fish tank is a mystery its open in the bottom no one can give a copy need to have a printer rdy and print on a glass that is allready in position when we see the face appear
Take a look at the holder for the chin, which removes the plate. Sometimes it lies with the chin side facing the camera, sometimes with the chin side to the right. The magic trick was recorded twice for the camera and then cut together like this. Of course, it is impossible to find out how the trick is done.
They got a copy, the original got smashed, what they got was a copy made by a parson that had direct view of the drowing that has some artist talent. The trick falls apart because the tank and table at the end apears only at the end which already has the copy.
The reshoot and the editing ruin whatever sort of magic that this trick might have had. The drawing was swapped out with a duplicate at the cut at 2:13. The entire scene being blocked in a way to hide the splice makes it seem like splicing footage was the entire method for the trick. But if that was the plan, why even bother reproducing the painting? The entire sequence could have been done with just the original drawing. I assume the second drawing was there to fool the live audience in some way. But why show them a stage magic trick and everyone else something that obviously wasn't and couldn't have been done live? If it was just to cover up the difference between drawings a little bit, then it wasn't worth the trade-off.
I can't wait until all of you 'know it all's ' get your own show in Vegas so I can come watch it and then try to get people to believe that I know how it's done!
It's not about being able to smugly say "I know how its done". Its about figuring out the puzzle. I find magic tricks so much more impressive once I know how they are done, and trying to think of all the ways they could have pulled this off is fun as well.
@@busby10 if you are just trying to figure out how it's done, then you are definitely in the wrong place! Magic tricks are not meant to be puzzles but a way to provide entertainment to the people who want to be entertained!
You think people who want to figure out how a magic trick is done shouldn't watch a show where the whole premise is to figure out how a trick is done?... What a stupid take. Penn and Teller themselves reveal how a bunch of their tricks are done because it's someone more interesting how it's done.
@@manomagik6634 you can't just say you are enjoying something in the wrong way, somebody had to figure out those magic tricks in the first place and it's just as much fun when you figure out the tricks
There is a clear difference between hair of what she drew and what Teller shows to viewers before and after. What Teller shows before and after are identical, but that is not what she drew. The first letter of her sign is also different.
You didn’t fool me. It’s like going grocery shopping and you get Bogo. You know what I mean? That’s all I’m saying I don’t want to give it away. I’m just mimicking. I have no fucking idea what took place. lol!! 😂😂😂
Why ? Why tell ? What does it gain you ? If you want to feel smart do a suduko or some shit but these guys feed their families with this shit. ( I also realize they are rich as fuck too but it’s the principle)
This is disappointing for penn and teller, as they claim they hate camera tricks and such. You can clearly see there are weird edits in this one. Even if it's that they made 2 takes for whatever reason, not showing one full take seems sketchy. Just look at the drawing at 2:04 vs the drawing at 2:28, they are clearly 2 different pictures (for example, just notice how her name is further away from the face in the picture in the first one). How did teller change the picture? Is this just a merge of 2 takes, or did they remove part of the trick to hide the effect? (which would be pretty lame). I dont see how the girl wouldnt notice that the drawing is different right after he takes it out. Whatever the reason, the fact that this was edited so much makes it suck imo. Again, considering who penn and teller are.
I think this is unfortunately two takes edited together...and it may not be intentional either. At the end you can see shards of glass on the floor...I feel like something went wrong and they had to do two takes...more than likely it was the editor who decided to splice two takes together rather than just use the second one. It does lessen the impact of the illusion for viewers watching on tv or youtube...but it doesn't seem like this was a choice by P&T, nor do I think it was necessary for the trick to work...just the unfortunately reality of TV production.
There is a difference in the drawings but you would not notice them if you were seeing the trick performed live. For those of you who want to tell me that there are not any differences, I encourage you to open up a new window and compare each pane of glass side by side.
There are but there are also differences in the stage and it's more than likely the trick was shot twice but the performances were edited together. Unfortunate but it happens and it's unlikely that it has anything to do with the actual trick.
Ok my take on this , there are two drawings , but it's not the original that goes in the bag and gets broken , the original is only seen at the reveal ... There are no plants , no actors , they just follow the instructions. Editing is not the trick , it's just how TV works unless it's live.
@@PhilippeP62 Exactly. This was just sleight of hand, showmanship, and some modern tech. A lot of these people commenting don't realize this was a live performance in Los Vegas in front of random people. If it was staged, you'd have to pay off hundreds of people and it would have leaked to the Internet by now, thus ruining their entire career. This condensed version for TH-cam was poorly done, however.
There was no misdirection. He actually broke the original. The trick is easy enough to pull off. Its not the same drawing for starters. Close but not close.
So I will GUESS (very good guess)... that they are chemically staining the glass and using a transparent semipermeable sheet to transfer the image from pane 1 to pane 2 using transparent chemicals. Explanation below. Each marker has no actual dye or paint, but rather a different transparent chemical. Once those chemicals come in contact with the glass (maybe using a heat or chemical reaction with gas from the chamber), they react and form each of the 3 unique colors. Essentially they are making stained glass. The reaction occurs within the glass itself, so there is no risk of color contamination with any non-glass surface. A transparent semipermeable sheet absorbs the chemicals from the original drawing and then gets transferred by Teller to the pan and eventually the chamber. I'm thinking the sheet removal happens 2:26-2:28. Who would EVER hold a large glass frame with one hand? Other hand is very close to the pan that gets placed in the gas chamber, so Teller probably sticks the sheet to the bottom of the pan. Camera cut and angle prevent us from verifying this. A very thin and absorptive sheet would allow the chemicals to pass through the sheet while still reacting with the glass behind it. Notice the large amount of marker smear that occurs between 2:06 and 2:27, especially on the left (viewer's right) face. If that was because of excess liquid, we would see some smearing in the full minute it had been sitting there. It's impossible to remove a sheet without at least some lateral movement. Hence the smearing. Presumably the process to stain the glass occurs during that smoke show for the second pane. The first pane was prepped shortly before the performance and perhaps has some component trapped between the glass and the transparent sheet. Problem with this theory: -How does the sheet get removed without any light reflection? Presumably the sheet is coated or entirely something that reduces glare, but I really don't know how they could entirely eliminate light reflection.
Having looked through it a bunch of times now I'd say you're about 99% correct on all accounts. The position of the tray and the stand above it would allow for Teller to easily drop a transparent film down from where the glass was held and on to the tray. His motion to slide the tray along the glass wall into the gas later also supports the idea that he's just chemically transfering the image on to another pane.
The fact that EVERYONE every magician that appeared on the show has been able to upload their participation on the show on their personal TH-cam account tells me that Penn and Teller are no fools, they're great human beings for allowing them to profit from those videos. MAGICAL act of kindness I say
So, you think of it more like uhm... America Got Talent?
Yeah, Penn and Teller even let Penn and Teller upload their own act, how cool!
I mean this entire show was made for their love of magic. They're both rich as fuck from all the shows in vegas.
I remember seeing one of their shows in Vegas and after the show they were outside in the foyer happy to meet and greet anyone who'd been to the show. No premium tickets, no pre-vetting, they'd happily speak (or mime!) to anyone.
@@Jax49 if you watch the show on TH-cam, you'll likely get recommendations of acts from the show that are actually uploaded by the magician to their own TH-cam channels, where they can monetize them. Penn & Teller don't seem to mind that the acts featured on their show upload their own segments to monetize. It's a rather uncommon feature in today's money first society. People might do it anyway without permission but the number of magicians featured on Fool Us who have their set uploaded to their personal TH-cam channel is far beyond average -- there are well over 100 cases, making it likely they're permitted to do so. That or, P&T aren't actively paying agencies to remove copyrighted content. Even your own act, performed on a show like Fool Us or America's Got Talent isn't owned by you, it's material owned by the show/producers/network. Your feature on it doesn't give you the rights to profit from it/use it commercially.
What I want to know is ... "Why does Teller have a tie mic?"
For the hammer sounds.
its so when they are discussing how tricks are done, after an act does a trick, the Judges can hear them and if need be make a judgment, if the act doesn't understand the code words and decide if someone fooled them or not
It's misdirection 🎩🪄
@@jerthon1 They haven't *really* done the code words thing since season 2 or 3. There were too many cases of misunderstandings or arguments or making too many guesses, so they full clear it through the judges beforehand. Now they know before they even talk to the contestant if they got it right, so the "guessing" is just for show.
If its a fooler they won't even guess because they don't want to give anything away, they'll just make a joke and say "you fooled us". If they got it right, they use the code words because they know exactly what is safe to say, mostly because it's baked into the show's format. Once you notice that, it's the case 100% of the time.
Either way it means they can spend the time complimenting the guest and the act, rather than spending all the time on breaking it apart.
First couple seasons were wild before they had that set up.
Most “silent performers” still wear mics to communicate with stage and crew.
I'm always tickled when the boys do their routines, but Teller's are always just a little bit more about the skill and the art, while Penn's are more about the show and the patter. Both greatly appreciated.
Remember Penn is the Actual Professional Clown. The one who distracts you from what is going on in the back.
Penn has said it himself. Teller is the magician, Penn is the carney.
I love how Teller's solo tricks are like poetry in motion
Forget the trick itself - it amazes how much Teller can say without moving his mouth.
The people brought up also said a lot without uttering a word. Her miming a broken heart was instantly endearing. It's adorable how Teller not speaking pulls people into the moment.
Regardless of if you can figure out this trick or not. I have to say this is the MOST beautiful piece of magic I have EVER seen in my life. These two volunteers put their hearts and love into something and teller helped them make a happy memeory that they will never forget. It is truely toutching
Highly recommend Teller's Rose routine, also Shin Lim
look up the one with the coins, it’s amazing
The only sad part was seeing the "something" destroyed and them only getting a copy... :(
Smashing.
Beautiful trick, very classy with the piano music and smoke, plus the couple got a wonderful souvenir.
Don't know how they did it and I don't care how they did it. That was pure good fun.
There was a very tiny person inside the gas cloud putting it all back together very quickly 😂
@@dr.floridamanphdobviously 🙄
@@gocubs2224 you’re a Cubs fan. No wonder sarcasm is lost on you.
@@dr.floridamanphdLeprechauns can fix anything!
@@dr.floridamanphd Nac Mac Feegle
Iconic. Best magicians in the world.
So I think it's safe to say that 1) there are two paintings; 2) the image is recorded somehow - which I think is immaterial, probably the pens using the glass as a tablet or something like that, there's a dozen ways you could record her penstrokes (and they're obviously smoothed out and vectorized in the duplicate at the end) and 3) a glass pane inside the tray is dropped into the smoky box. But the actual printing is done DURING the reveal at 4:40.
No need to push the glass pane forward - the projector behind the box is printing to some photosensitive material. Go frame by frame at 4:40-4:44 and you'll see individual lines/parts of the drawing appear every 3 frames, as the scanner is doing several passes to print the whole thing. Prior to this point, it's just a blank glass pane coated with a primer that can be printed to with UV light from the projector.
I suspect it's the other way around. Since he gives the "restored" painting away at the end, but he is the only one to touch the "original"
@@DannyBeveridgeEsq yep that's the way to do it, he destroys the evidence of the trick as part of the trick
Australia Tour 🇦🇺 exciting!
Bless you
Thanks, thumbs up, have a great day.
Loved this! Love them! Love ALL OF THIS SHOW, THESE PEOPLE, THE PENN AND TELLER!!!!! So awesome 100% of the time! Would love to meet them nice, just to shake a masters hand.
that's not how math works
The real magic trick is how Teller joined their hands together at the very end (before they walked off the stage) and how the audience member guy was still able to quickly and effortlessly break free.
Very cleaver. 😊❤ now teller, talk us through it 😂
3:15 you can see Teller using a fair amount of wrist strength indicating some weight to the silver tray. 3:24 You can see how the tray has a curved lip. Hiding another glass panel in the middle of the tray allowing it to slide out easier. 4:04 pressing the lip against the glass box to keep the glass panel from sliding out. Once fully inside the glass case he releases the pressure holding the new panel and you can actually hear it slide out into the bottom of the glass cube at 4:08 . After he drops off the new panel of glass, 4:10 notice how lightweight the tray seems to be as he puts it away and how he is no longer exerting the same wrist strength. A powered arm then leans the panel up and it appears once its close enough to the front view panel. Was I close?
How was the drawing duplicated tho?
@@gifgoldblum7940 It was already predrawn, the people in the crowd are plants. The art is similar but if you look back at what was smashed vs. what is shown at the end there are slight differences.
@@gifgoldblum7940 Well seeing as the additional panel was brought in from offstage inside the silver tray. There is no sure way to know that method they used. But either recreated it using technology like a camera and 3d printer with a paint marker attached. Or a very talented sketch artist is watching live in the back.
@@fadedforest583 yes I'm sure Penn and Teller hire hundreds of people to watch their shows every week for years and none of them have even accidentally exposed them as frauds, it's definitely not that you can't figure out a trick performed by one of the most talented and successful career magicians in history.
@@fadedforest583 P&T are forbidden from using plants. They have spoke about this many times
Beautiful and fascinating trick.
My clue to anyone interested in figuring it out: look closely at her signature all throughout the trick.
Teller is a genuine master of stage magic. Not disrespecting Penn. Doing it with being mute as a handicap brings it to a whole different level.
I love how you think his being mute is a handicap.
You do realise he is not a mute and this is just part of his theatrical performance ... 🤦♀
Thr mute isnt a handicap it a adv
He can talk just fine.
When they used to meet with fans after their shows, Teller does 99% of the talking. He's not mute lol
Broken and restored. All others are done. This is now the ultimate restoration effect.
This is inspired magic, completely unique.
I have one potential solution. Unfortunately the performance it is cut wrong which makes just looking at the footage confusing. (Evidence: 2:33 and 2:36 are different drawings. It may be double takes or just rearrangement of footage.) In either case, that giant UV lamp behind the glass box at 3:53 is a hint as to what may be going on. I do not think the painting is visible on the glass pane he puts into the glass box. Also, the way the tray is angled just below the drawing structure at 2:22 shows that there are multiple possible ways the painting could have been transferred to the secondary glass pane attached to the tray, such as laser. I e, the secondary glass tray would be prepared with a chemical that reacts to laser and gives off a certain color when exposed to UV light.
wow, finally i can see the switch.. first the stage has curtains to hide the table. an artists made a duplicate and hide it in a slot in the table. teller smashes the original panel and then places the tray exactly in the right position with the help of the small straight edge in black. the purpose is to hide the glass panel behind it then place it in the tank
this is why the transparent tank has to have smoke first
using an arm or string at the top of the tank to incline the panel forward to be visible
you suck
Nope, I took screenshots of the original and the "restored" panels superimposed them and they line up perfectly. Graphic designer here.
@@tihzho Dude. They ARE different.
Open 2 tabs with the same video.
Pause 1 video at 2:27 and one at 2:09.
Look at the legs inside the pants.
They are NOT the same
2:09 has a sharp angle in the crotch area where the two legs leave the abdomen.
2:27 has smooth edges in the crotch area.
Its literally all you need to look at...
If you still dont see it, compare the eyebrows in 2:09 and 2:27
NOT the same at all
so NO
They are 2 different pictures.
@@nyChannel09I have gone back and forth between the two timestamps a dozen times and I do not see any of the differences you are pointing out. The legs go through both pants, the angles are the same, the eyebrows are the same.
Are you perhaps getting confused by the two different camera angles?
At the very least, it looks like the fingerprint smudges at the top are different.
His childlike manner makes it all the better.
What makes Penn and teller good is they do simple tricks and it’s just good fun.
I absolutely love how no one in the comments can detail how this was done, thats the magic touch that Teller always seems to have
you are everywhere
I love how some people don't read comments
there are too many cuts in the video
There are two different paintings.
The painting at 2:13 and 2:28 are different (they have different eyelashes). But I have no clue when the switch happens.
The original painting is the one he then smashes at 2:55 (again after a switch I do not see).
And the second painting is the one he pulls from the smoke box.
I have a feeling it's an editing thing because it doesn't make semse why we wouldn't see the panels switched
I have one potential solution. Unfortunately the performance it is cut wrong which makes just looking at the footage confusing. (Evidence: 2:33 and 2:36 are different drawings. It may be double takes or just rearrangement of footage.) In either case, that giant UV lamp behind the glass box at 3:53 is a hint as to what may be going on. I do not think the painting is visible on the glass pane he puts into the glass box. Also, the way the tray is angled just below the drawing structure at 2:22 shows that there are multiple possible ways the painting could have been transferred to the secondary glass pane attached to the tray, such as laser. I e, the secondary glass tray would be prepared with a chemical that reacts to laser and gives off a certain color when exposed to UV light.
ok... I've compared every appearance of the drawing, I'm more confused than I was before. To be clear, there are two drawings. Lets call them A and B. If you screenshot every time you can see the drawing, you can tell they are different. There are several differences, but the easiest to spot is the right pant-leg, drawing A has a square pant leg, drawing B has points on the right pant leg. again, there are other markers, but this is the most obvious one at a glance.
2:06 - the woman is tracing his face, we see pant leg from drawing A.
2:27 - teller holds up the drawing for the first time, here we see drawing B, he places it in the bag we can see it is still drawing B.
2:40 - the piano crash, music stops. it's not 100% clear,, but sure as hell looks like it's already swapped to drawing A. it'd be easier to pinpoint if this were uploaded in HD not 480p
2:54 - teller holds the glass up to the anvil, hammer in place, clearly we see it's drawing A. he breaks it, we never see A again.
5:06 - the big reveal, teller holds up the restored drawing, we see drawing B. which, is an *almost* perfect copy of drawing A, but it clearly isn't the one the woman drew at 2:06.
So, I'm a bit confused on why there seems to be an extra swap here. was that required for the trick, or was it multiple takes, or....? idk.
regardless, it's such a beautiful performance, love it. I just wish we could see it with less editing, I'm not saying the editing changes the trick, but it gives people the chance to speculate there's editing tricks going on here when I highly doubt it's the case having been a fan of P&T for many years.
It really doesn't make sense why they would swap to B and then smash A afterward. I'm not saying that didn't happen, I just don't follow the design.
Nope, I took screenshots of the original and the "restored" panels. I then superimposed them adjusting for angular differences and they DO line up perfectly. Graphic designer here.
@@tihzhobro you can very clearly see they are not the same painting. Just compare the line at the bottom of the pant leg at 2:10 to 2:27. The line goes through at 2:27 but not in 2:10.
Nope to you, @@tihzho. You might be a graphic designer, but you're not a magician. @ZebPalmer is correct. Note the timestamps.
Open 2 tabs with the same video.
Pause 1 video at 2:27 and one at 2:09.
Look at the legs inside the pants.
They are not the same
2:09 has a sharp angle in the crotch area where the two legs leave the abdomen.
2:27 has smooth edges in the crotch area.
Its literally all you need to look at...
If you still do not see it, compare the eyebrows in 2:09 and 2:27
not the same at all
They are 2 different pictures.
I think they have an artist backstage? Then bring in the duplicate on the tray… they do seem a little off and if they got a good freeze frame from a cam when it was in that holder they could even have it projected on the other glass (with a backing). then quite a bit of time to recreate a simple drawing during the smashing etc. the signature is harder though. Just my thoughts but I think I’m close
Sorry but no. I took screenshots of the original and the "restored" panels superimposed them and they line up perfectly. Graphic designer here.
@@tihzho sorry how can’t you tell the difference
@@sublim8designs427 These things can be measured. Besides, that's a rather inelegant method and P&T are not prone to using labor-intensive methods unless it's them doing the labor. (Liftoff For Love.) So no, it's definitely not a reproduction by a human. But the produced item is surely a reproduction.
@@tihzho They're noticeably different. No superimposition required, and no camera angles necessary for the difference. The strokes are simply not the same.
I'm not sure if you're just not being honest about not having superimposed the two images (as I suspect) or incompetent to the point of bending your own reality (no offence - I don't think this is the case) - I suspect you're mostly trolling.
I know straight away how this was done. That innocent hammer is the key
Of course, it's the trick hammer, that answers every question anyone could possibly have. It's so obvious it doesn't even warrant an explanation, it's crazy that a Penn & Teller trick could be explained so simply
@@skylark.kraken I'm not so sure of that. I think the explanation is: Teller is the key.
@@HarveyHirdHarmonics the hammer already solves the Teller aspect
Weirdest part about this for me is how at 3:29 there's no light, and then just a second later, there's been a blue light on them this whole time?? What kind of cut must have happened here
I don’t claim to know exactly how the trick was done, but I do know video editing and something I noticed is that at 3:20 the black curtain is closed behind them and there’s no table behind them. Then at 3:24 there’s a close-up shot of him pouring the glass shards onto the tray. The next shot at 3:30 the black curtain is gone and at 3:37 you can see the table behind them.
Maybe this was just an edit for time, but who knows.
I can guess as to how the trick is done. I think the final “repaired” glass is just a duplicate. The shards are still in the glass box, covered up by the smoke. As to how the duplicate was made to be so close to the original I’m not sure.
There could be a camera in the wooden frame, you can even see a suspicious "knot" in the wood at 1:24
That helps a lot in the duplication process. If you examine both image very carefully, you may even see very small differences.
@@attilakiss8585 But if there's a camera involved, there should *not* be such differences!
@@KenLieck The difference is so subtle, but visible
@@attilakiss8585 More importantly, I don't believe that the returned/repaired/duplicate glass is the same because the smudges on the glass are different.
Before it was bagged, there were fingerprints visible all along the upper edge, see 2:32 and 5:01 where you can see the smudges. Unless it was wiped clean, the upper edge on the repaired glass doesn't bear fingerprints.
On the other hand, there's a line of prints going down the side to the signature in white and I don't see the repaired glass touched in that area. Hmm.
@@nygmustheoriginal The smudges are what got me. It looks like it was just filmed out of order. The smudges at the start look like the glass pane was pulled up from somewhere... maybe pulled up from the container?
Has to be a second piece of glass on the table that he picks up after he sets the tray down and picks up the tray again. The second piece of glass is a a close replcia of the one he smashes
Should have had the two guests on stage try to figure out how he did it and see if Teller could fool them.
The most baller flex that pen and teller use is letting a rando walk away with the feature prop. It’s freaking maddening
Well performed. You can see the glass is double layered when it moved to the Anvil. The marker is thick enough to transfer the image. I'm guessing that the ink/marker/paint is now on the opposite side of the surviving piece of glass.
When the couple get on stage they seem to know what to do so i think they do a rehearsal first and don't show them the rest of the trick; they keep the picture from the rehearsal which will be similar enough to use as the duplicate. This is the reason Teller is kind of directing her and controlling the colour of the pens at different points.
Funny how pretty much one single person in the comments figured this one out for real and the rest are stuck arguing over editing mistakes when there were obviously two takes shot of the trick and for unknown reasons had to be combined together.
Here's a few hints: The trick could probably have been performed in the early 1900's. There is nobody else involved in the trick apart from the three on stage. Only one person on stage is performing an act. Biggest of all: items on stage are placed the way they are for a reason, the tray and the glass in particular.
between 2:08 and 2:28 those are different pictures, look at the differences
Yeah something fishy is happening here. I was looking at before and after the smash, which look identical. But her drawing is different from what he holds up. Unless they filmed it twice or something?
@@busby10 Filming twice is very common for a tv production to get different camera angles.
Make sure to get the dress rehearsal in case something goes wrong in the live show.
Amazing and wholesome
My best theory is that the drawing lady is an “instant stooge” being shown what to draw by a reflection on the glass. This is why her head has to be positioned just right in the cradle. In this way she makes a drawing that is very similar but not the same.
The smash one drawing and use the tray to swap the other in.
P&T do not allow stooges on the show, and I suspect they would hold themselves to the same burden. I strongly believe this effect requires no coaching.
So... did he fool them or not?
Clever trick, shame it didn't fool Penn & Teller
2:27 and 2:54 you can see that they are not the same drawing. Looks like some kind of switch as it is going into the bag, I can't see it happen though!
They look totally the same.
But it is a great trick if people start thinking way to complicated.
@@rudolfgernd8760The drawings at these 2 timecodes are different. For instance, look at the swish at the end of the guests signature. it's at a different angle. When you look at details like overhangs and gaps, it's easy to see that it's a recreation at that time.
I took screen shots and the drawings are identical. I think the glass with the drawing was never smashed. Somehow he let it slide out of that bag and left another piece of glass get smashed. Then at the end it’s under or inside that tray.
@@rudolfgernd8760 they are different. look at the distance between the signature and the face, and look at the bottom of the pant.
@@TerrapinCreations666 they are not identical. Look at the picture while she is drawing it and then look at the next screen before he puts it in the bag. They are two different pieces.
Thank god I was never called to do something like this because I would have fallen in love with her as she traced my face
How? How? How?!!
Fabulous illusion. Those who say there's only one way it could be done aren't imaginative enough.
The drawing is not a duplicate, but there is a duplicate of something else. (There are also two bags, but they're both in plain view at the same time, so I don't think that's a secret.)
The ink from the markers appears to be UV reactive. That may just be to make the drawing highly visible on stage, but it could also be helpful in making the drawing appear in the box.
I don't think there's an edit between multiple takes; it's just unfortunate the black curtain was pulled during a close-up. (Then again, there's a pile of what looks to be broken glass on the stage floor, so maybe some was spilled accidentally and that was edited out. If so, I don't think that edit is relevant to the method.)
There's a rail on the final table to make it easy for Teller to place the tray in precisely the right location. The curved lip on the tray is to ensure all of the shards slide off when Teller withdraws the tray.
Oops, Teller touches a button on the back of the fog machine a split second after the fog starts coming out because it's actually controlled by someone offstage. (The fog machine fires a second time without Teller touching it doing anything.) The fog leaks out the back of the transparent box by design.
The transparent box is deeper (in two senses of the word) then it might seem.
Ask yourself how and when the anvil was removed from the stage.
480p video?? Is this the 1990's??
2019 actually, back when Allison was still hosting
Well this is an unofficial upload ripped from a bootleg and designed to upload hundreds of videos as fast as possible before youtube pulls it for copyright claims. If this was an official channel it'd certainly be higher quality.
no wayyyyyyyyy
вот как они это делают??? и я не про фокус...
He has a tie mic so you can hear him smash glass and hear sound effects with wine glass and hammer
These days I would say the marks digitally record the image. Available tech. It is printed on a transparant in the back and placed in the box before the curtain goes up.
2:57 The look he gave them
50% of the trick for me is obvious - there are almost 3 paintings. The "first" one is shown at @2:06 . Notice the two green dashes on the right eye (from out point of view). Then when the magician removes the "painting" @2:28 they are gone. Do notice that the magician removes, for no aparent reason, the head-resting-peg @2:23. The third painting is shown at the end and it's just a copy of the second. I believe that @2:24 the trick has already been perfomed and everything else is just spectacle.
Almost certainly the variations in images are caused by them having to film the trick more than once and for some reason needing to combine footage from the two tricks.
So, the editing makes sussing it all out kinda moot, but anyway:
- pinhole camera in the lady’s chin rest -> takes picture of the drawing that’s used for duplication off-stage. At least that’s my guess since there are definitely duplicates in play, and that chin rest is perfectly positioned to get a flat-on photo of the plate with minimal distortion. It’s suspiciously dead center and perpendicular to the plate. If the idea is to “trace the face”, then that’s where you’d want your eyes to be, not your chin (hence why they add that stick figure body to make the drawing seen centered). Also, it doesn’t detach like the other chin rest, and is just designed differently. Seems like a hassle to make two different chin-rests, no? The setup is supposed to look a little roughly-hewn and slapped-together out of plywood and off-cuts, but someone took extra care with that chin rest.
- anyway, given a clean photo, I’d just put a piece of glass on top of a screen backstage and trace off that. No need to think glass printers or super-talented artists copying freehand or motion tracking pens or anything high-tech. Just make sure the photo’s shown actual size on the screen and start tracing.
- the glass Teller smashes is weirdly _not_ the one we saw her actually draw, though that’d be simplest. It’s close, but it’s different. What’s strange is that the one that gets smashed _is_ identical to the one they get to keep. So the one she actually drew is just… gone? but there are two duplicates? With all the editing, it’s hard to tell how that swap occurred. Or if things were simply shot at two different times, the footage is mixed, and they’re stooges. Point is, the simple thing would be to let her draw, smash that original drawing, and send them home with the duplicate. Seems like cheating to actually destroy the original, but it looks like she’s sent home with a duplicate either way you cut it. It’s like “look, I can’t actually make _your_ card reappear, but I can produce close copies of it all day” - um, ok?
- I suspect there are bits cut out of the act. There’s the obvious jump where the curtain’s just suddenly pulled aside revealing the table. Might just be edited for time, but it also looks like there are glass shards on the floor now. We don’t see any glass get dropped, but maybe there was a step where some glass gets dropped as a misdirect? But for what?
- what’s obvious enough is that the surviving glass plate is placed in the fish tank by Teller who’s holding it under the tray. He picks it up from under the table, right under where he’d placed the tray _just so_ against a little guide. The tank is notably recessed into the tabletop, so you can’t see the bottom edge of the plate - or all the glass shards he dumped in. Those should be visible if the tank wasn’t recessed. Some mechanism takes care of tilting the plate forward for the reveal.
You can tell instantly that it is a completely different picture
Completely different picture? Why don't you take a freeze frame of each and compare?
What I would like to know is why when introducing the performance, Alyson says "PENN and Teller?"
I think it has to do with branding. Penn & Teller is also the name of the performance group, not just the individuals. The trick he's performing was likely designed by the both of them.
"Pen", surely? As in the things they use for drawing?
For the same 'reason', presumably, that Americans tend to say ROBIN Hood, whilst Brits say Robin HOOD.
@@iantaylor8018 That's actually pretty good, although I think Mr Jillette has heard a joke about that too many times for them to use it.
I'm sure Penn was involved in creating the trick
Definitely not the original. The show has poisoned me to look for those little details. What a great story and illusion!
just one this time boys?
Teller is genius. And I can prove it!
Mirrors, every magic trick is done with mirrors.
Teller didn't even win a trophy for that, that's messed up.
I suspect Penn knew how it was done. Probably got tipped off somewhere in all the times they would have practiced it together.
I think I know how it was done, but i could also be completely wrong :D
Are we sure this the official Penn & Teller channel? Most of the videos have just a couple hundred views. Show as popular and successful as it is, that just seems... odd.
It sure is. We just started uploading videos. We plan to fill the page over the next few months leading up to their 50th Anniversary!
wow
Das ist nicht das gleiche glas. Zeichnung und Unterschrift sind minimal anders
There is something at 2:32 and 5:01, together, that reveal something about this trick, and it is not the drawing itself.
fingerprints.
The images look identical, I made screenshots and compared them. My best guess is that the pens electronically register the movements. A technical device is in the tray and colors a glass plate hidden in the tray.
that would be super cool; i figured it was some sort of carbon-copy type deal but no freaking clue how that'd work through glass. curious about how thick the material was
I think it doesn't even need to he in the tray. It just needs to to be in the glass container with trick ink. If it's up against the front it looke like nothing is in it.
They aren't identical. Look at the final image pant leg on the right side of the glass compared to the original drawing, there's a mark on the final one that isn't on the original. Still a very cool trick!!
@@briancheneyneuromotion6208 Thanks - I look at the right leg of the figure, but I see no mark.
@@sko19sko the drawing at the beginning, she drew the pant leg in one continuous motion without picking up the marker. The pant leg at the end was definitely drawn one line at a time with the bottom hem of the pants drawn last, so it sticks out a little farther than the other two lines.
Damn. I wish I knew how he did this. Please tell me it was simpler than I can imagine. The simple miss directions are so much more annoying and amazing when you can perform them. I know that this show has been edited and even multiple takes may have been performed even they might have ask these two to come back for another round to do another shot of the same trick but so we don't see everything on tv. I mean back when In Florida the Nickelodeon shot many days with different groups of people in the background but you never new that on tv.
I'm about 90% certain that the differences in images are irrelevant and just remnants of having to have repeated the trick. Most important details seem to be the position of the first glass on the table compared to the position and stance of the tray underneath, at 2:16 clearly visible. Perfectly set up to slide a clear film down and onto the tray after Teller moves the bag away and releases the glass panel. The second important detail is at 4:03 where he slides the tray down in a very specific way, a way that would allow a clear film on it to stay upright against the glass.
It's so clearly different this only works once, on stage.
On youtube - IT'S NOT THE SAME DRAWING.
I'm going to throw in my guess. I think the fact that her drawing looks different to what teller holds up before smashing is just due to them doing a couple of takes for TV. If you compare what he holds up to the audience pre-smash to what he holds up at the end its identical to my eye. I'm ruling out it just straight up being an editing trick as these guys do this trick live.
I also think this would be really hard to freehand replicate so accurately. Because it matches not just in the line work, but the position on the glass.
Also nothing happens in a magic trick for no reason. Why does she have a chin wrest? There really isn't any need for it. I think her chin wrest has a camera in it.
You can see it has two screw holes underneath the chin piece while his has none. One of these screw holes actually contains a small camera that is streaming the image to make an exact copy on a new piece of glass. This could be done by just printing it onto clear film and slapping it on a new bit of glass, or some sort of plotter pen that replicates it exactly, or tracing the image. I think this is done behind the curtain and then left in a compartment just underneath the bench top.
Then Teller collects it when he picks up the tray to tip the shattered glass in. Notice there is a stop on top of the bench so he puts the tray down in exactly the right place to then pick it and the replica up at the same time without it looking weird. He deposits the replica in the tank and then the giant light they had behind it illuminates it for the reveal.
It wasn't the same piece of glass
I can think of a way to do it. But is it THE way to do it?
I think they hand-make a reproduction. The scene starts with the glass locked in place. So there could be a video camera off stage with a long lens preset perfectly to display the image on a large TV with another glass same size lined up on top of the TV. The whole thing about tracing on glass is you can trace on glass.
Take a look at the tray below the stand where the glass is held at the beginning, around 2:13. I'm pretty sure it's down there and in that position for a good reason. As if something like a transparent film could maybe slide down from the stand and end up resting on the tray. Combine that with the way Teller slides the tray down with the glass shards later and you'll be getting close I'd say.
He Prestiged the poor drawing
thank you for this compilation of pixels. truly wish i could see what is on screen. maybe up the upload quality? xD
get a better computer
Looks fine to me.
i watched on my phone and you can see all you need to see.
PLEBS AND YOUR TINY SCREENS STOP @ ME
3:33 Walter White at it again.
Tear and restore? Ha! Shatter and restore! Obviously.
I really don’t want to tell you how this trick is done, so I’m going to say it in codes. Ok.
There was two people that crossed the road and one got smashed.
The one thing they taught in their early career is that one may never trust the camera perespective. There were way too many camera cuts to trust that what was edited to video was all that Teller did.
But was one smashed before they crossed the road? He could have had a fun night at the bar for all we know...
@@grantkohler7612Yes. The audience picture doesn’t match the restored. There was a close up cut of the restored shown before the break. That way the home audience would see identical pictures. It’s one thing to fool live audience. It’s another to fool tv audience. Well done Penn and Teller!
Sounds like Snoopy music.
Any reveal anywhere ?
camera in the wood @ 1:24 takes an image and then later it somehow is duplicated on the glass either by a machine underneath the table and the slotted in from the bottom. (The broken glass is still in the box covered up by the smoke.
@@YouMakeItHappen yea ok i see theres a possibility there a camera in the wood of the girl ( 1 of those 2 holes is sus) and can look straight at drawing but what going on in the fish tank is a mystery its open in the bottom no one can give a copy need to have a printer rdy and print on a glass that is allready in position when we see the face appear
It would be fun to be the guy who gets to copy the original backstage
Hair and eyelashes were different.
Take a look at the holder for the chin, which removes the plate. Sometimes it lies with the chin side facing the camera, sometimes with the chin side to the right. The magic trick was recorded twice for the camera and then cut together like this. Of course, it is impossible to find out how the trick is done.
I did see the second glass..... But I won't blow it for ya😎
I think Teller just fooled himself
They got a copy, the original got smashed, what they got was a copy made by a parson that had direct view of the drowing that has some artist talent. The trick falls apart because the tank and table at the end apears only at the end which already has the copy.
where the hell did the table come from at 3:35 ? poor editing I guess
The reshoot and the editing ruin whatever sort of magic that this trick might have had. The drawing was swapped out with a duplicate at the cut at 2:13.
The entire scene being blocked in a way to hide the splice makes it seem like splicing footage was the entire method for the trick. But if that was the plan, why even bother reproducing the painting? The entire sequence could have been done with just the original drawing.
I assume the second drawing was there to fool the live audience in some way. But why show them a stage magic trick and everyone else something that obviously wasn't and couldn't have been done live? If it was just to cover up the difference between drawings a little bit, then it wasn't worth the trade-off.
Yes, the cut att approximately 3:37 (when he the shards are spread out) is jarring, has to be two different takes.
The live audience is seeing the same illusion as the TV audience. I am certain Teller could perform this trick in a non-televised stage show.
I can't wait until all of you 'know it all's ' get your own show in Vegas so I can come watch it and then try to get people to believe that I know how it's done!
It's not about being able to smugly say "I know how its done". Its about figuring out the puzzle. I find magic tricks so much more impressive once I know how they are done, and trying to think of all the ways they could have pulled this off is fun as well.
@@busby10 if you are just trying to figure out how it's done, then you are definitely in the wrong place! Magic tricks are not meant to be puzzles but a way to provide entertainment to the people who want to be entertained!
You think people who want to figure out how a magic trick is done shouldn't watch a show where the whole premise is to figure out how a trick is done?... What a stupid take. Penn and Teller themselves reveal how a bunch of their tricks are done because it's someone more interesting how it's done.
@@manomagik6634 you can't just say you are enjoying something in the wrong way, somebody had to figure out those magic tricks in the first place and it's just as much fun when you figure out the tricks
Its just a shame the camera crew spoiled the experience by cutting the camera away to show the couple
Sight lines are everything! 😢
There is a clear difference between hair of what she drew and what Teller shows to viewers before and after. What Teller shows before and after are identical, but that is not what she drew. The first letter of her sign is also different.
I was just about to say the same, and then saw your comment. Yes it is two different pictures.
You didn’t fool me. It’s like going grocery shopping and you get Bogo. You know what I mean? That’s all I’m saying I don’t want to give it away.
I’m just mimicking. I have no fucking idea what took place.
lol!! 😂😂😂
Yes, nice trick. In 3:14 he gets the copy in a 2 tray that a helper has traced. It even looks almost like the original.
Why ?
Why tell ?
What does it gain you ?
If you want to feel smart do a suduko or some shit but these guys feed their families with this shit. ( I also realize they are rich as fuck too but it’s the principle)
The tray was visible the whole time. When was the copy placed in the tray?
I think you are wrong. I think it gets added into the box much later and by someone else entirely!
I was one of the production team. And it is not this way how he does it
I'm actually pen & tellers father. And it is not this way how he does it
This is disappointing for penn and teller, as they claim they hate camera tricks and such. You can clearly see there are weird edits in this one. Even if it's that they made 2 takes for whatever reason, not showing one full take seems sketchy. Just look at the drawing at 2:04 vs the drawing at 2:28, they are clearly 2 different pictures (for example, just notice how her name is further away from the face in the picture in the first one). How did teller change the picture? Is this just a merge of 2 takes, or did they remove part of the trick to hide the effect? (which would be pretty lame). I dont see how the girl wouldnt notice that the drawing is different right after he takes it out. Whatever the reason, the fact that this was edited so much makes it suck imo. Again, considering who penn and teller are.
I think this is unfortunately two takes edited together...and it may not be intentional either. At the end you can see shards of glass on the floor...I feel like something went wrong and they had to do two takes...more than likely it was the editor who decided to splice two takes together rather than just use the second one. It does lessen the impact of the illusion for viewers watching on tv or youtube...but it doesn't seem like this was a choice by P&T, nor do I think it was necessary for the trick to work...just the unfortunately reality of TV production.
There is a difference in the drawings but you would not notice them if you were seeing the trick performed live. For those of you who want to tell me that there are not any differences, I encourage you to open up a new window and compare each pane of glass side by side.
There are but there are also differences in the stage and it's more than likely the trick was shot twice but the performances were edited together. Unfortunate but it happens and it's unlikely that it has anything to do with the actual trick.
Isn't magic just smoke and mirrors?
Ok my take on this , there are two drawings , but it's not the original that goes in the bag and gets broken , the original is only seen at the reveal ...
There are no plants , no actors , they just follow the instructions.
Editing is not the trick , it's just how TV works unless it's live.
@@PhilippeP62 Exactly. This was just sleight of hand, showmanship, and some modern tech. A lot of these people commenting don't realize this was a live performance in Los Vegas in front of random people. If it was staged, you'd have to pay off hundreds of people and it would have leaked to the Internet by now, thus ruining their entire career. This condensed version for TH-cam was poorly done, however.
Isn’t life just smoke and mirrors ? Our final page is all the same.
Well if I've ever watched enough penn and teller the misdirection wasn't subtle.. saw what was done and not fooled
You doesnt saw shit, there is nothing to see, they chose every camera point of vue
@@fritzyann3832 what's 'vue'?
There was no misdirection. He actually broke the original. The trick is easy enough to pull off. Its not the same drawing for starters. Close but not close.
It's a totally different drawing :D
They knew not to talk and exactly what to do
So I will GUESS (very good guess)... that they are chemically staining the glass and using a transparent semipermeable sheet to transfer the image from pane 1 to pane 2 using transparent chemicals. Explanation below.
Each marker has no actual dye or paint, but rather a different transparent chemical. Once those chemicals come in contact with the glass (maybe using a heat or chemical reaction with gas from the chamber), they react and form each of the 3 unique colors. Essentially they are making stained glass. The reaction occurs within the glass itself, so there is no risk of color contamination with any non-glass surface.
A transparent semipermeable sheet absorbs the chemicals from the original drawing and then gets transferred by Teller to the pan and eventually the chamber. I'm thinking the sheet removal happens 2:26-2:28. Who would EVER hold a large glass frame with one hand? Other hand is very close to the pan that gets placed in the gas chamber, so Teller probably sticks the sheet to the bottom of the pan. Camera cut and angle prevent us from verifying this.
A very thin and absorptive sheet would allow the chemicals to pass through the sheet while still reacting with the glass behind it. Notice the large amount of marker smear that occurs between 2:06 and 2:27, especially on the left (viewer's right) face. If that was because of excess liquid, we would see some smearing in the full minute it had been sitting there. It's impossible to remove a sheet without at least some lateral movement. Hence the smearing. Presumably the process to stain the glass occurs during that smoke show for the second pane. The first pane was prepped shortly before the performance and perhaps has some component trapped between the glass and the transparent sheet.
Problem with this theory:
-How does the sheet get removed without any light reflection? Presumably the sheet is coated or entirely something that reduces glare, but I really don't know how they could entirely eliminate light reflection.
Having looked through it a bunch of times now I'd say you're about 99% correct on all accounts. The position of the tray and the stand above it would allow for Teller to easily drop a transparent film down from where the glass was held and on to the tray. His motion to slide the tray along the glass wall into the gas later also supports the idea that he's just chemically transfering the image on to another pane.