This morning, I was thinking about uses for the latex vanishing bottles. Here’s one of the routines that I thought of:
Effect: You put a full beer bottle and an empty glass into a paper bag. A snap of the fingers and you remove an empty beer bottle and then a full glass of beer!
Method: You need a bag, a latex beer bottle, a matching real beer bottle, a glass full of beer, and a fake bottomless glass. This fake bottomless glass is basically a thin plastic tube. In the old days of magic, they would call it something like a “celluloid fake”.
Set Up: Place the empty beer bottle and the full glass inside the bag on your table.
Working: Show the empty glass (plastic tube) and put it into the full glass that’s inside the bag. Next, you show the full bottle (latex) and put it into the bag.
Snap your fingers, then remove the full glass (with the plastic tube inside), and then remove the empty beer bottle. Crumple up the bag (with the latex bottle inside) and toss it offstage.
That’s it, there’s really not much to it, but a bit more simply vanishing the bottle or making an empty one become full.
-Louie