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  • the reason they laughed so hard at 2:18 was because the window shut down loudly... basically the glass window is much larger than it appears and goes below the framework at the bottom... some people in the shop push the window up where there is a gap in the window fitting behind the newspaper..then they slammed it back down so hard but these two heard it, lol.

  • Wow I saw the glass move. The first exposed trick I've seen by David Blaine

  • ele e o maio

  • At 2:13 you can both see and hear Blaine shutting the window panel. Impressive nonetheless, of course.

  • @ACDCfloyd No offense intende at all mate but that's one of the most irrational explanation to this trick. It goes to show people will disregard what they don't know.

  • SheaG00dbye...you write all them...NO ONE GIVES A FUCK!

  • I saw him open and close the glass wow and I know most of his tricks but that time it was oveuions

  • It's a fake store with a movable pane of glass with a hole in it.

  • Also, the panel could have originally been there but just locked at all times. Perhaps Blaine talked to the store owner to unlock the panel just for the effect. He didn't necessarily have to install anything. My fault on that.

  • Also, the panel could have originally been there but just locked at all times. Perhaps Blaine talked to the store owner to unlock the panel just for the effect. He didn't necessarily have to install anything. My fault on that.

  • Just as a little follow up (sorry i'm limited in characters)

    If he did angle his spectators in the fashion where he "appeared" to put his arm through the glass but really didn't, originally, from the camera's POV nothing would be seen going through the glass. That would mean his arm was edited in later.

    But that doesn't explain how the watch disappeared from the little podium, unless that was a graphics edit as well.

    Either way, if you read my last post, i don't believe he uses edits.

  • (Conclusion)

    6. But that would mean, he never handed the watch off, which is false. This is where I am stumped. The only possible explanation (and a total shot in the dark at that) is the idea that the store owner agreed to instal a panel just for the effect and the cuff of his sleeve got caught in the panel while he was reaching into the store's display.

    Sources: Studied magic my entire life (since i was a toddler), the most extensive research on Blaine. Street magician for 6 years.

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    5. Questions have arisen that suggest the panel theory is bogus.

    A. When Blaine puts his arm through the glass, "his" arm that is on the other side is missing the white cuff of his sleeve. This suggests that the arm is possibly not his and was edited in for TV.

    B. That would mean, as suggested by others, he angled the spectators and just "appeared" to put his arm through the paper. From directly behind, he could have concealed the watch and pretended to put his arm through.

  • (continued)

    4. I am sort of stumped on the "hand through glass" illusion aspect of this. At first, I believed a panel was the explanation due to the following reason

    a. Blaine acts suspicious and appears to conceal something after retrieving the watch from the display. Also, the male spectator observes everywhere on the glass but the area where Blaine put his arm through.

    But if you really think about it, what store in New York City would have a panel available in its display glass?

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    3. The cut scene theory is correct, although it is risky. Blaine does move on to perform other effects after he steals the watch to provide the person he handed the watch off to time to plant it on display. This was cut from the national airing, because the main focus is intended to be on the watch effect. This is risky because the longer Blaine avoids her watch is gone, the greater chance she will notice it.

    it also makes sense he talked to the store owner before the effect.

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    2. The guy that walks behind them (the weird guy) is significant, but not in the way everyone thinks. People are stating David hands the watch off to him, but if you watch Blaine his hands go nowhere near the guy, his hands actually go behind him. The truth is, the "weird guy" walks behind them to act obnoxious to distract the viewers and the spectators while Blaine stole the watch and handed it off to one of his camera crew to be later planted in the store.

  • I usually hate reveling magic, but since no one is sure how this is done, I'll give my thoughts after reading comments and examining for quite a long time.

    1. First off, there is NO way possible there is another guy in the window using his hand to grab the watch. The timing, misdirection, and angle this would take to pull off to fool the spectator and the camera is nearly impossible.

  • It's fake their all acting

  • @lolololol5172 People have done this on live television. Specifically, a famous Chinese magician.

  • Also at the start with the card trick you can see david remove her watch with his right hand as for putting his hand through the glass I am not sure.

  • SEE how that guy said QUEEN OF DIMONDS MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and david suddenly stoped it triggered something in davids mind to make him stunned for a seconed any thoughs on this let me know it was like a trigger for david.

  • ahh we meet again 240p my old friend.

  • seems like everyone try prove him wrong the guys is amazing

  • He could make a ton of money stealing watches.....

  • The watch displayed on the extreme left is not really a watch on the podium. It's the glass cut in a similar shape, resembling a watch on the podium from the camera angle we see it from. Notice David putting his hand through exactly the same spot. It's the camera angle that does the trick!

  • When he took the watch off her wrist, he kept it in his sleeve. Then when he was "reaching into the glass" he was really just pulling his arm up into his sleeve to get the watch, while using the newspaper to cover an assistant on the other side of the glass whose arm that really was. He pulled the watch out, gives it to the lady and tada!

  • @MsEffervescent But how do you explain the fact that the woman sees her watch in the display case and says "That's my watch!" if her watch is in his sleeve?

  • @jpsned Well, I guess that's just where the magic part comes in :P

  • @MsEffervescent Indeed!

  • He slides some type of revolving glass with his arm. At the end when he is pulling it out you seem him slide it back with his elbow.

  • I've seen the hand through glass trick before, still don't know how it works. But I like their conversation. David- "Look here let me get your watch. How did i do that?" other people- "There's a hole in the newspaper."

    David- "Yes, yes there is a hole in the newspaper there's a hole right there. But not in the window."

  • :3

  • i stil think his magic is real but tht wierd man obviously did help him...but tht doesnt explain his hand thru the glass o.O

  • david blaine si es un buen mago y de los mejores sin miedo a decir que es el mejor, no como david copperfield y sus shows

  • everyone quit trying to solve what he did. lol....its REAL!

  • O.o GYPSY!! we must burn him

  • "Watch it very closely and you will see it's a different hand inside

    the window. It's lighter in color than David's and the movements of

    the hand don't exactly line up with the movements of David's arm. As

    David pretends to push his hand through the window he is actually

    pulling his arm back into his sleeve and the hand you see through the

    glass is actually an assistant inside the store."

  • @TbroWn676 If it's another person's hand, then how did he hand the watch to David? The "other" hand is inside the glass right? Please explain

  • i dont care what anyone says, i will always believe his magic is real, cause i dont want it to be fake lol

  • he practiced it by fisting ur mom

  • why is it that if I was there I would try to examine it more than to enjoy it.... Its like I would fully examine the window, or to see if its a mirror effect.. blah blah blah.

  • no, im talking bollocks, he doesnt palm watch off at all, it is in his possesion all the time, the watch in the shop is an identical copy. assistant hidden in shop window extends his hand at the same time blaine appears to reach in for it, his arm is hidden by the newspaper, blaine simply tucks his arm into jacket to make it appear that it is actually extending into shop. palms real watch into hand when he takes his arm out of jacket sleave. watch it again. i guarantee thats how he does it.

  • @danofthedead1979 I'm not saying but if you had the 15,000 or so it cost to have the effect made you could do it too.

  • @danofthedead1979 How could he have an "identical copy" of a watch belonging to a woman he has never met before?

  • he palms watch off to assistant walking past behind him while 'weird dude' distracts us from that. second part, why do you think he puts a newspaper up against window? unless he is blocking our view from something. he has assistant in shop ready to be his hand when he pretends to reach in through window. Blaine simply stuffs arm into jacket while his hand appears to reach in through window. we know this doesnt actually happen because its impossible.

  • @danofthedead1979 Sorry that wasn't even close. I will tell you this that wasn't a real store front however.

  • @RS1963 does he slide glass aside?

  • youtube masked magician climbs through glass...

  • quando o video começa a mulher esta com o relogio.... e quando ele pega nos braços dela ele tira o relogio e passa para um cara que esta atraz dele...

    depois o cara que pegou o relogio leva e bota na vitrine!!!!!!!!!

    magico de bosta!

  • prop window/store

    the window slides...hence the newpaper covering the hole coming from the left side of the window frame...pulls it out and the window is slid back ...

  • @skotfree999 if it was a different piece of glass that actually slides out the I'm sure it would have a visible cut showing that and a pissed off store owner who has to keep his jewlery behind it.Also he reached striagh in a pulled striaght back within that time period his hand was visible and not in any way moving or replacing glass.

  • Hey guys guess what you see that other watch behind hers? Well that's the hole.

  • WHAT THE F !?!?!??

  • ok if anyone know tht clear plastic window thing tht you put a hole through a card with a pencil i think its the same way

    he covers it so you dont know there is a hole there but he slides a peice of glass in the way

    sorry if im not making sense but if you kno w the trick im talking about it makes more sense

  • genius :D

  • the trick is simple, he just heats his hand up to a million degrees so that when he touches the glass his hand just melts through. see nothin to it

  • @aJollyHobo (dbz joke) so hes nova shenron

  • @aJollyHobo he would only need to heat his hand up to over 2,300 degrees celsius to put his hand through the glass and steal all the watches he wants... lol

  • cool trick..

  • Very nice done. The passing guy distract atention and the shopping window (with a hole) can move horizontally making the hole disappear.

  • haha i get it,the bald guy passes and takes her wacth goes inside and puts it there,haha im a genious.lol

  • I prefer derren browns type of 'magic' because he tells you it's all tricks and mis direction and still manages to amaze you. And he picks volunteers out the crowd with a frisbe to prove it's not rigged

  • If it wasn't trick glass he wouldn't need the newspaper to cover it.

  • its real

  • notice his hand comes out of a hole

  • what the fudge...

  • super crazy!

  • I fuhking love football...

  • SUDDENLY newspaper

  • i just shit my self

  • taking off the watch was slight of hand he undid it plain as day. Watch the blaine chronicles he does it some black guy and uses his fingers to make it disappear.

  • LOL! she didn't even recognize her own watch

  • hahuhm I know this is not a real chat but.. Anyone up for some cam chat

  • DEMON DEMON!!

  • why didnt david to her a favour and get her a better wactch with diamonds the watch shes got isint worth a fuckin dime :)

  • HOLY SHIT! O: i totally freaked when he put his hand through that glass window and pulled out her watch. damit that was awesome

  • Lol its pretty obvious once you know.. see how he makes sure he stays to the left of the glass thats to hide the sliding backwards glass

  • @TheGreekRasta i dunno if its that simple. i didnt see any sliding door in a glass window. and besides what kind of jewelly store has a sliding door on the display case for people to grab shit from? i dont know how he did this and i dont think you do either.

  • @lankball911 Look at the store window its obviously not a real store, because 1) why would you leave the window display out like that with no cage anyone could just punch the glass and take it and 2) Look at the sign thats obviously fake or just some really bad advertising.

    All he does is waits for someone to walk past with a specfic model watch which he knows is in the pre set display window and just does the trick on them.

  • @TheGreekRasta true enough but i still dont get how he got the watch in their in the first place

  • @lankball911 Thats because it was always in there in the first place, he just took her watch and pocketed it then just gave her the same model watch from the pre set window

  • @TheGreekRasta

    No, it really is her watch.

    Notice the scene cut after he says "let's try this" at 0:39? During that scene cut, he performed a different trick. There could have been many minutes between that cut and what we see it cut into.

    He palms the watch off to the "weird" guy that walks past. During the scene cut, that guy walks into the shop, and places it there.

  • @Ilikemustard explain how he puts his hand through the glass

  • @Ilikemustard the random guy and david even come close enough 4 him to pass the watch???

  • @usernameflop IT WAS A DISTRACTION TO THE WOMAN WALKING BEHIND HIM YOU SEE HER WALK BEHING HIM OVER HIS SHOULDER

  • @Ilikemustard yo the weird guy walk the opposite way

  • @Ilikemustard how'd he palm it to that guy if he did not get close to blaine???

  • @Ilikemustard but that still doesnt explain how he puts his hand through the glass

  • @Ilikemustard

    YEa i just hate when they cut scenes, just like the coffe in the palm scene he just cut the part when he "raises her hands a little higher"

  • its amazing ,,, i wish to meet himmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • he just amazing ,never seen any thing like this before

  • the people and the camera didn't notice the whole store window was built to slide in its frame, the camera moved in and people didn't notice the name on the glass moving , blane covered the hole with the paper reached in grabbed watch, notice he's touching the glass, sliding the whole glass back into the frame, therefore hiding the hole. he would only have to move the glass about 12'' to 16'' to do the trick, and yes that guy walking behind her was in on it(he put the watch in the store)......

  • you know something's up when david blaine calls some guy "weird". i've never seen a person with such awkward social skills get so many ppl to like him with the first impression

  • notice that all stores around are closed and got metal crate on windows and jewelery store doesnot..

  • Awesome !!!

  • but who takes her watch to the window??

    he takes the watch and hold it behind his back, but who takes it?

  • @Secret96Magic A dude who worked at the jewelry store took it for David and places it in the window when the couple were too busy looking the other way at the "queen of diamonds" guy.

  • there was a glass pane that he moved on the window that was hidden by the newspaper

  • In Soviet Russia glass goes through hand.

  • the jewelry shop has already have a hole in it !! watch it carefully

  • lol see that? SEE THAT? SEE THAT!?!? look! LOOK! LOOK!!! Look! LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol David Blaine rules.

  • i really dont care if magic is fake ... i dont care what mathmatical process finds out that magic is fake... please for the love of god or whatever the fuck u believe in stop trying to find out how it works or y ur stumped... its magic... get over it...

  • look at 0:27 hi pass the watch in his back

  • If you watch closely you will see that he puts hss back to the end of the shop window to hide the guy inside, he slips the watch into his hand and as the hand advances to the paper he bends his arm away to create the hand through the glass trick, timing is vital and if you watch the shop window you will see the shadow of the guy inside waiting to do the hand trick, its not magic, its a trick but a good one! enjoy!

  • HOW THE HELL DOES HE DO THAT?!

  • i dont care if magic is fake you lot cant do it so its still impressive

  • All i can add on to is the theory of david passing the watch to the strange man in the begining. It could be possible after he steals the watch from her wrist, he hands it to the guy in the blue shirt below the camres view, the man in blu then passes off the watch to the strange man.The reason i think this is, is bkuz b4 the weird man goes out of the shot the man in blu turns toward him and blocks the spectators view with his bak. His body language after shows hes nervous of a present action.

  • They were looking at the watch to the far left... but he took the watch from the center?

  • U 2 ladies stop it

  • It annoys me the fact people can't just enjoy the trick. We all know it's fake, there's not need to prove it.

  • I love how David Blaine always visits hicks, red-necks and poor inner city blacks. Why doesn't he do these "tricks" somewhere in Hamptons...lol

  • @ForcedAgenda Because you can't see a magic trick when your nose is always in the air. And besides.. who wants to fake do tricks around fake ass people? Laugh out loud at that BITCH!

  • @jsicud901 Uhhh, yeah. Did you take that personally or something? What makes you think I am a "Hampton go-er"? Why don't you look in the mirror, I'm sure you'll get a "laugh out loud" moment ...

    I think my question was pretty legit by the way...(__!__)

  • @ForcedAgenda How is it legit dumbass? I know you've seen the numerous clips he's done with celebraties. Plus, he's stated that he prefers to do his tricks on the streets and not in some glamorus setting so his routine won't look so fake. So take you're little slick ass comments and go wipe your ass with them. Pretend that i'm a dying cancer patient, and grant me one last wish. GO KILL YOURSELF!

  • @jsicud901 Hey! You scumbag! Keep your friggin' opinions to your self! What an ass...did you prove to yourself that somehow you matter through your high minded correspondences with me?  Do us ALL a favor and just put the keyboard away!

  • omg hand through glass is like WTF HOW? :s

  • @kevinlmanon its called acting and special effects buddy, those two got paid to act

  • he is guud

  • he gave the watch to that bald guy who went into the store and place it in there!!! wala!

  • he's so hot!!!

  • Plenty of time after he grabs the watch, you see him put it below camera so it can be taken away - the guy who crosses in back maybe? Then someone runs it into the shop window.

    With the glass, it slides to the right, putting a hole (once hidden on the left side behind the wall) behind the paper. Then when the watch is grabbed through the hole, they slide the window back while he keeps the paper there. Eh!?

  • @OFR Nobody cares if you know how it happened, the fact is, hes an illusionist not jesus so quit acting like your so upset because he doesnt actually do magic

  • Gah, I hate the fact that people spend ages working out the secret to the trick instead of enjoying it as the extension of disbelief. Who gives a shit if it's not real? It looks real and I love it. Perhaps this is the attitude people should have towards life in general...

  • This is how I think it went...There are 2 watches. And all of the 3 persons are acting. The man in blue is clearly involved as he already watches the window from 0:47, from the first moment he can see it, and even before Blaine said anything about stopping there and @2:32 he touches a totally different part as where the watch went through... And according to me, the most faraway watch behind the window is just an optical illusion, it's no more than a perfect shaped hole in the glass :)

  • @rednal4451 no ur totally wrong.

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  • Some people have special talents, some men are just Envious SOB's that cant do but complaining about the doers.

    Trick or not, he is freaking strong and talented and there are only a few like him, if any. 

  • all of the disbeleivers need to go and watch politics, if your gonna leave comments saying how "magic isnt real" or "this is fake" go do somthing boring with your lives and not watch this. :D

  • when he makes her count her watch disappears ;o maaagic

  • first he pick pockets the watch,

    then goes over to the window (there is no hole)

    look at the shadow, it is another guy putting his hand as if it is davids, and david just puts his hand in his sleeve

  • @TheRailroadworker

    Thats not right dude! This is very simple and easy trick. The glass slides up when he blocks the hole in the glass with paper.

    With tricks like this which a comman man can do, david is really taking a huge risk of loosing his high profile magician status. So lame...

  • @TheRailroadworker By George I believe you've got it! lol I wish there was a better quality one to see it better, but good catch on your part!

  • Notice how he grabbed a different watch then the one she said was hers when they went over but wen grabbed the other one out she still said it was her watch

  • "did you see my hand just go through the window? how amazing am i, really how amazing?"

  • that is a illusion okokokokkoko

  • LOL noclip

  • I love this MAN !! Marry me David, Pretty please w/ Cherries on top!! lol ;-)

  • its just sv_cheats 1 and noclip

  • @pivotdeadking lmao skulltag/zdoom

  • lol, he says the other guy is weird...

  • There's another guy in the store wearing all black. It almost looks like david's reflection or shadow, but it move independently. There was someone else in there helping with the trick somehow.

  • @generalbenson dude you are so freakn smart,i would never have thought of that,so some guy inside(which is disguised by the newspaper)moves with davids hand and david already has the ladies watch(which he took earlier)which is the one he pulls out supposedly.the only part i dont get is how did they know what her watch looked like.

  • @freakman707 I wonder if they just picked a popular watch, and had one with them. Then just walked around on the streets until they saw someone that had that watch.

  • @freakman707

    Its simple. Its all planned the the people are lame actors. and yes with bad acting. Similar bad acting you can see with other trick where he disappears behind table with a mirror below it. So lame...lolz

  • @mahendrarc How do you feel about Chris Angel?

  • @mahendrarc Really they are all lame actors because the guy in the blue cut off shirt is my english teacher and he said it was all real so nice try you fucking cunt.

  • @generalbenson Just saw that...he was trying to stay in sync with David but he was off a bit here and there. So the only thing I can think of was that the woman was in on the gag due to the watch being the same one. She sort of gives it away with too much chatter, but definitely better than the morons Criss Angel hires.

  • @Lorizh no when he does the card trick everyone's focusing ont he cards and not on his hands holding her wrists and loosening the watch strap

  • @jingleyone Oh I can see him take the watch off her wrist, I paid close attention to that portion of it. I am saying that either she's in on it (most likely because of the too much chatter from her) or they had a watch that looked similar to hers in the window. It's a cool trick but you can tell that someone is inside the window when you pay attention...I love David Blaine.

  • LOVE YOU DAVID BLAINE.

  • ive seen Chuck Norris doing this with a jet engine.he round house kicked it off a flying plane...

  • @kozakhanda hahahhahahahahahaha i m dead

  • I would have stolen everything else too.

  • watch watch watch watch watch look look look look look look

  • omg yoll stupid he rubs his arm on the glass part and moves the glass back in place

  • If you look closely at the far left side of the window, the whole damn thing moves.

  • Lol , soudenm84 your right actually at got to 2:00 (Basically soudenm84 was right hard to explain but fake)

  • 'that's a weird guy'

  • there was a hole in the glass when they first walked up to it

  • @12streetballer its a watch...

  • @TheHabagat oh ok

  • u can see the whole in the glass when thew first come up to it

  • Why does he speak to the people like they can't comprehend? having explained what happen bit by bit..."you see that there's a hole in the newspaper" "you see there's no hole in the glass"

  • why the fuckin paper ???

  • yes it very fake

  • heres how its done. The watch is taken from her wrist..as you know...then he approaches what looks like a shop window...or is it a big tv screen behind glass with a pre recorded hand reaching in and taking the watch :) then he pulls his hand out from behind the newsaper and give her back her watch that hes put onto the plastic watch holder while walking them to the window.

  • @soudenm84

    lmao. you are completely wrong.

  • I bet he couldnt push his hand through a newspaper without breaking it, but funny how can through glass some shiny trick that :)

  • We shot this in Los Feliz on Vermont about 10 years ago. Crazy night!

  • @HersheyBomar You were one of the camera crew? Awesome. Any idea on how he actually did it?