0:00:02 > 0:00:04Prepare to enter a world of magic
0:00:04 > 0:00:07where nothing is quite what it seems.
0:00:07 > 0:00:09No! I say no.
0:00:09 > 0:00:10I say no!
0:00:10 > 0:00:13We've got a dancer standing tall...
0:00:13 > 0:00:14You're going to hurt yourself.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16..a bunny that falls...
0:00:16 > 0:00:18and a father getting a dent in his...
0:00:18 > 0:00:20pride.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22Welcome to Now You See It.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35First, Harry Potter and the boring old stick.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Avada Kedavra!
0:00:38 > 0:00:40OK...
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Meanwhile, in a toy shop far, far away...
0:00:43 > 0:00:44Let's see you, buddy.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49I don't care if you are a Jedi Knight -
0:00:49 > 0:00:51all breakages must be paid for.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54And in a galaxy far, far closer to home,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57give the pinata a thwack and make sweets magically appear.
0:00:57 > 0:00:58All right, go ahead.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Oh!
0:01:02 > 0:01:05We would, of course, advise dads keep well away from pinatas.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Here's GloZell, with magician Chris Ballinger.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15So, if you could do me a favour and just touch any one of the cards.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18This one right here. Can you say it out loud for the camera?
0:01:18 > 0:01:19This one right here.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20- Is...- Is a jack of hearts.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- Jack of hearts. We'll leave it right where it is.- You know my card.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25- OK, so you're seeing it live. - Yes.- They're seeing it on a screen.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30Wouldn't it be a little more fair if you saw it through a screen?
0:01:30 > 0:01:32- Wouldn't that be more fair? - I don't wear glasses.
0:01:32 > 0:01:33But I've got a screen here,
0:01:33 > 0:01:36a little piece of plastic and you can see the cards through it,
0:01:36 > 0:01:37- right?- Can they see it?
0:01:37 > 0:01:39They'll be able to see it.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42- We're just going to put the little screen right here.- OK.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Just like this, so you can see the cards through the screen.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48- Yeah.- OK, watch.
0:01:48 > 0:01:49- Oh, my gosh, what's going to happen? - Watch...
0:01:49 > 0:01:51No, it's going to explode.
0:01:52 > 0:01:53Oh, no!
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Imagine her reaction if it HAD exploded
0:01:59 > 0:02:01rather than just changed to the colour green!
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Although something tells me that green might be her favourite colour.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08You're seeing it through the screen,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11it'd be better if you didn't see it through the screen at all.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12What in the world?
0:02:12 > 0:02:13No...
0:02:13 > 0:02:16- No! I say no!- Every single card.
0:02:16 > 0:02:17- I say no!- Oh wait, I missed one.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19I think she's saying no.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21No, no, it's OK. I think this might be...
0:02:21 > 0:02:23- What was your card? - It was the jack of hearts.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26- No! Don't turn it over. No! - That's the jack of hearts.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27No, I say!
0:02:27 > 0:02:31All the other cards are green, except for the jack of hearts.
0:02:32 > 0:02:33It's...
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Giant pencil or tiny hands?
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Hard to tell.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47- Did you get it? - Not quite, try it again.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Hold up one sec.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56All right.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57- Ow! - LAUGHTER
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Quick, draw an ambulance!
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Time now for our beginner's guide to magic.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10A great magic trick requires speed and dexterity.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Or, at the very least, the ability to unfold a sheet.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19It's important to build up a sense of anticipation.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24But try and get round to doing the trick at some point.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Seamless. The sheet, not the performance.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Now, in my best, not very good, American accent, it's time to say...
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Magician Mat Ricardo spent years perfecting this skill,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44only to discover there's absolutely no call for it whatsoever.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Master the fiendishly difficult art of yo-yo,
0:03:50 > 0:03:52and you could end up on stage.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Bit of an up and down sort of career, though,
0:03:54 > 0:03:56and not always in the way you'd think.
0:04:01 > 0:04:02But it is important to keep practising
0:04:02 > 0:04:04if you want to keep your hand in...
0:04:07 > 0:04:08..and your nose out.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Here's men in coats.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15I wondered what Noel and Liam were doing these days.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17That's an Oasis reference, kids.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Oh, hang on - Liam's got something in his eye.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24They've got more tricks than you could shake
0:04:24 > 0:04:26a carefully concealed massive stick at.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35APPLAUSE
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Moving on now to some levitation.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Is there nothing these guys can't do?
0:04:59 > 0:05:00Ah, yes...
0:05:01 > 0:05:02..levitation.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Shall we take a look at some... GROWLS
0:05:12 > 0:05:14We've all heard of flying carpets,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17but here's a cat test-driving the world's first flying doormat.
0:05:20 > 0:05:21Lovely outfit, by the way.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Here's a hedgehog that really wants to be a magician's rabbit.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36One day, if he keeps practising,
0:05:36 > 0:05:38he'll get the hang of popping out of a hat.
0:05:38 > 0:05:39One day.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43But not today.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Meanwhile, this rabbit's thinking,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48"That hedgehog's pinched my hat again." So he does his
0:05:48 > 0:05:50rabbit-vanishing-off-bed trick instead.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53You're going to hurt yourself. OK.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Now, let's take a peek behind closed trapdoors, as we ask...
0:06:05 > 0:06:07No, that's not Michael Ball performing Phantom of the Opera
0:06:07 > 0:06:09in a shopping centre.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Although that's not to say he doesn't do that.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15It's from Japanese channel NHK,
0:06:15 > 0:06:17and this masked magician...
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Oh, he's a little bit creepy, isn't he?
0:06:19 > 0:06:23This masked magician is about to produce something spectacular
0:06:23 > 0:06:25from behind his dining room curtain.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30A ballerina's appeared out of thin air.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Or is it a thin ballerina appearing out of air?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Anyway, the question is - how did they do that?
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Well, brilliantly, we can see exactly how that was done.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41First, she cleverly concealed herself behind the cameraman,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44making them look like they're forming the world's shortest
0:06:44 > 0:06:45conga line.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Then, as the masked man shoves his face into the camera and brandishes
0:06:48 > 0:06:50a bit of curtain, she stands directly behind him.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52At the right moment, she runs forward,
0:06:52 > 0:06:56skids delicately between his legs and voila - instant lady.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00And now to magical Hertfordshire, with well-dressed wizard DMC,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02for our big finish.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Joining DMC, it's Belinda Challis, a top motorsport professional.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12You'll see at the far end of the runway we have two paper screens,
0:07:12 > 0:07:15one with the cross and one with the circle.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18In a moment, I'm going to have you get inside your car,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20I'm going to have you look at both symbols,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23and I'm going to have you think of one of the symbols,
0:07:23 > 0:07:25just in your head, OK?
0:07:25 > 0:07:28When you've done that, I'm going to ask you to drive...
0:07:30 > 0:07:31..through that screen.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34There is one thing you need to know.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37You won't know which one,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40but I'm going to go and stand behind...
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- ..one of the two screens.- Right.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Oh, good - no pressure then, Belinda.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47- I'm going to go and get ready. - Good luck.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Yeah, good luck. Hope I don't run you over!
0:07:51 > 0:07:53If we could please put the screen into position.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54I've said it before and I'll say it again,
0:07:54 > 0:07:56don't try anything like this
0:07:56 > 0:07:59unless you are international illusionist DMC.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Actually, I've never said that before, but it's true.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06And Belinda you have no idea which of the two screens
0:08:06 > 0:08:07I'm standing behind, correct?
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Nope, I haven't got a clue.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10No more contact.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Three, two, one.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Oh, and Belinda, if you want to change your mind,
0:08:20 > 0:08:22once you've set off, you can.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Go.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39I'm sorry, I can't resist saying it.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41When else am I going to get the chance?
0:08:41 > 0:08:42Run, DMC!
0:08:44 > 0:08:45Phew!
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Nice that DMC checks his suit's unblemished.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51The first thing we'd all do.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54He should check round the back as well, though.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Thank God! Good choice.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Amazing trick, but here's an almighty twist.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Belinda, let me-let me show you something.
0:09:02 > 0:09:08Behind this screen we have a ten foot, five tonne
0:09:08 > 0:09:09concrete wall.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13Come and have a look, come and have a look.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- You could have driven into that, Belinda!- Whoa...
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Quite.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21That's all we've got time for.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23No! I say no!
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Well, I'm afraid, GloZell, I have to say yes.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27But join us next time on Now You See It
0:09:27 > 0:09:29and until then, watch out -
0:09:29 > 0:09:30magicians are everywhere.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34Although, to be fair, some are easier to spot than others.