Hello, and thank you for watching.
Our topic today is the History of the Professor’s Nightmare
In the Genii Forum, Richard Kaufman said,
“The Professor's Nightmare was invented by Bob Carver. The handling we all know today as the standard one is by our own Al Cohen. There is no question about its paternity.”
Typically, when someone asserts that there is “no question about” it, you might want to have a closer look
Michael Edwards did some excellent work on the history for Conjuring Credits dot com.
Michael said, “There has been some disagreement over credits.” So the assertion that there is “no question” isn’t quite so.
1920s
Michael said that “Douglas Kelley and Vincent Lynch developed the fundamental approach in the late 1920s”
1930
Tom Osborne advertised “Osborne's Rope Illusion” in The Sphinx, Vol. 29 No. 5, July 1930, p. 231.
By February 1934, the trick began to appear in other ads as Osborne's “Three to One Rope Trick”; see The Linking Ring, Vol. 14 No. 12, back page.
1933
Lyle Laughlin created his own version known as “The Sealed Rope Mystery”
This version was marketed in 1933 by E. Loyd Enochs.
1937
In 1937, Edward Victor published his rope routine, “My Rope Trick” (in his The Magic of the Hands, p. 84) it is this effect popularize the premise of the equal-unequal ropes.
1938
Abbott's Magic Novelty Co. published Harold Sterling's “Short and Long Rope Mystery
This trick was eventually included in Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks, 1941, p. 136.
1943
Hen Fetsch's marketed four-rope version “Rope Epic”, 1943.
1954
Hen Fetsch and Gene Gordon under the name “Quadropelets.”
The Unequal Ropes
Lewis Davenport reworked two phases of the Fetsch routine into a handling in which three apparently equal ropes are displayed, gathered together, made unequal, made equal again. One rope is then handed to a spectator, the remaining two are found to be unequal and are handed out. Davenport called this routine “The Unequal Ropes”.
1957
Bob Carver won the IBM Originality Trophy in 1957
But said it was based on Hen Fetsch material
1958
Professor's Nightmare was first marketed by Gene Gordon also based on Hen Fetsch material
Bob Carver wrote to Gene claiming he was the inventor
Gene added Bob’s name to the credits
1959
Harlan Tarbell’s handling
“Dr. Tarbell's Equally Unequal Ropes”
2008
The Linking Ring, Vol. 88 No. 2, Feb. 2008, p. 62
The Chronology of a Nightmare
William Spooner examines the history and claims that Bob Carver is the originator of the Professors Nightmare as it is done today
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