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- Mickey and his friends Minnie, Donald, Pluto, Daisy, Goofy, Pete, Clarabelle and more go on fun and educational adventures.
- A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.
- Dino is a curious little dinosaur who is always eager to learn new things. He adores playing with toys, cars and trains, and discovers the world through his games. Like every baby, Dino learns shapes, colors, numbers and letters with enthusiasm. Learn with Dino.
- A psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.
- This is the 15th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced from Caesars Palace by David Copperfield himself, who describes an escapology number which would be performed in this location as the last feat of the special and is inspired by an illusionist of the past, Harry Houdini. Two assistants put a strait jacket on Copperfield and then wire his feet on some ropes fixed to a round platform which in turn is fixed to three ropes which will raise all in air, so Copperfield will come to be upside down, dangling in the air at 10 stories (or 33 meters, or 108 feet) on the stage. At this point the assistants set fire to the platform and to the three ropes. In addition, on the stage they place exactly under Copperfield two rectangular frames which support vertically dozens of steel and sharp spears, and then they also set fire to them. Copperfield has about two minutes to free himself and to grab a lifeline before the fire breaks the three ropes and drops him on the spears. So, the illusions performed are: "Flying Entrance", "Cocoon" (aka "Passion's Prison"), "Air Coppers" (aka "Ring Flight"), "Blueprint For Mystery", "$500,000 Challenge" (aka "Torn And Restored Baseball Card"), "After Hours" (aka "Vertical Asrah"), "Shot Through The Heart", "Touch The Magic - A Miracle In Your Home" (the third and penultimate of the interactive games performed in four specials) and then "Amazon Ritual" (aka "Burning Rope Escape" and "Fires Of Passion"). The "$500,000 Challenge" illusion is the first and only one that Copperfield has performed, with his host Wayne Gretzky, in a pre-recorded video set in his own Magic Warehouse and that he showed to the spectators in the theater via a monitor. Instead "Amazon Ritual" is an escape filmed at Caesars Palace and is one of the few escapes no more repeated.
- Losing weight and getting fit has never been easier! Shed those unwanted pounds with these simple tricks your gym doesn't want you to know about. You won't believe what happens next!
- A classic Russian fairy tale about Alyonushka and her naughty brother turned into a goatling.
- This is the 9th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Ann Jillian after a short presentation by David Copperfield himself from the Alcatraz prison's beacon. It is the first one to include officially in the title the name of the last illusion, that is "Escape From Alcatraz". Copperfield has chosen just this prison because of its reputation: Alcatraz, nicknamed "The Rock" or also "The Bastion", was opened on August 11th, 1934, as a maximum security federal prison, and has operated for 29 years, until the close of March 21th, 1963, caused by the high costs of maintenance and use. Then, in 1972, it was reopened as a tourist attraction. However, its reputation mainly comes from two reasons: it has held some of the most notorious criminals in American history, as Al Capone or George Kelly, and of the 14 escape attempts only the one of June 11th, 1962, has still not evidence of failure, after decades of FBI investigation. And Copperfield is the only illusionist that has performed his attempt, that is also one of the few escapes no more repeated. So, the illusions performed are: "Table Of Death", "Death Defying Duck", "On The Edge", "Dream Vision", "Duck-O-Matic", "Kid-O-Matic", "Reverse Duck/Kid-O-Matic" and then "Escape From Alcatraz". In addition to this feat, during this special's closing credits he performs a gag that somehow represents an opposite challenge: he can't get into his car because it is locked and the problem is that the same key is inserted in the dashboard's lock. He tries different ways to force the door but fails... This special is the first one produced by the Copperfield's first production company, and no more by the previous one, The Cates Brothers Company.
- Ethan is a small yet very active dump truck. He is always rushing into new adventures, and tries to learn as much as he can through the games he plays.
- Screen titles introduce the parabola as nature's poetry of motion: the path of every ball and bullet, of a fountain's jet and a falling star. Sculptor Rutherford Boyd's creations appear frame by frame under controlled lighting. Curved objects float by; mirror images appear. Paper sculptures separate into parabolic slices. One can see the abstracts of shells and fans, precursors of Sydney's opera house and the Chrysler Building. Shadows, unlit surfaces, and surfaces turning toward light add to the variations. Gravity's rainbow. The music is from "La Creation du monde" by Darius Milhaud.
- This is the 12th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by a voice offstage who describes the location of the escape that David Copperfield will perform in this special as his last challenge: the Niagara Falls. Just like his 5th special, this one is not introduced by a host. During the opening credits Copperfield reaches the stage from the backstage on his Harley Davidson, ready to use it to perform the first illusion. So, the illusions performed are: "Motorcycle Vanish", "Camera Trick" (aka "Camera Vanish"), "Cardiographic" (aka "Card From Paper"), "Slicer", "Misled" (aka "Pencil Through $100 Bill"), "Walking Through A Mirror", "Ring On The Hourglass", "Memories" (aka "The Attic") and then "Niagara Falls Challenge". For this feat Copperfield has his hands and feet chained to an axle which is almost entirely covered by a yellow steel box (leaving only his hands and legs exposed) and then suspended in midair by chains inside a cubic platform built over a raft. A Jet Ski is attached to the raft, and the raft is set on fire, raised from the lawn and dropped in the middle of the river, at about 152 meters, or 500 feet, from the falls. Copperfield has less than 60 seconds to escape from the box, detach the Jet Ski and rise upstream before the raft goes over the edge of the falls, with a vertical drop of about 51 meters, or 167 feet. This feat has been filmed in long take and is one of the few escapes no more repeated. This is the first CBS Copperfield TV special produced by his own production company DCDI Productions, that will also produce all the following ones.
- A surreal, dreamlike experimental film blending baroque, Victorian and space age imagery with odd sound effects.
- This is the 6th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Ricardo Montalban. It is officially titled "THE MAGIC OF David Copperfield VI" but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield VI: Floating Over the Grand Canyon", in witch "Floating Over the Grand Canyon" is a reference to the first illusion, given that for the first time David Copperfield performs an illusion in witch he floats in midair. This illusion is one of the few no more repeated, and also one of the few conceived and filmed for the TV audience only, since it was not possible to have a live audience. However in this special he finally reveals the name of his duck, called "pet duck Webster" and showed for the first time in the "David's Fable" illusion, the last one of the third special. So, the illusions performed are: "Grand Canyon Levitation", "Vanishing Giraffe Neck", "The Girl And Her Bird", "Instant Photo" (aka "Kids Allisa And Bo"), "Love Magic Lost" (aka "One More Night"), "Audience Jumping Rubber Bands" (aka "Project Magic", that is first a rehabilitation program founded by Copperfield in 1982), "Slow-Mo Duck" and "Escape From Death". This last feat is the first escapology number that Copperfield presents in a special, never performed before by anybody, and inspired to an illusionist of the past, Harry Houdini. During this escape, Montalban shows the Copperfield's parents, Hyman Kotkin and Rebecca Kotkin, who make their first appearance among the spectators in a Copperfield TV special.
- This is the 4th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Jason Robards and then presented by David Copperfield himself, inside a flying Lear Jet. For the first time he is also the producer. This special is officially titled "THE MAGIC OF David COPPERFIELD", but is better known as "The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane", in which "The Vanishing Airplane" is a reference to the last illusion, a feat that for the first time in the history of magic had to be performed in the open, outside the television studios, because of the dimensions of the object: a Gates Lear Jet model 25, year 1976, registration number N564CL, 7 tonnes, produced by Gates Learjet Corporation. And never before an illusionist has been able to vanish an airplane, or in any case something that big. To demonstrate the absolute absence of camera tricks or video effects, the illusion itself has been filmed in long take. The Lear Jet is surrounded at 360 degrees by a ring of 40 blindfolded spectators and also by external walls that have hidden all within a square area. Until a few seconds before the disappearance, only the shadows of the Lear Jet and of the ring of spectators were visible on the front wall thanks to some headlights. So, the illusions performed are: "Jet Emblem Vanish", "Picture Frame Illusion", "Zig-Zag Laser" (aka "Upside Down Laser Cutting"), "Doll To Life" (aka "The Ballerina"), "Clubhouse", "Finger Ring In Rose" (aka "Ring Flight To Rose"), "Love Isn't Just For The Young", "Levitating A Boy", "C.J.'s Card Trick" and then "Lear Jet Vanish", which is also one of the few illusions no more repeated by Copperfield during his own career.
- Michael "The Shape" Myers returns to Haddonfield in this fan made Halloween inspired short.
- This is the 16th and penultimate CBS Copperfield TV special, which six years later will be followed by the 17th and last one, Copperfield: Tornado of Fire (2001). The special is introduced by a voice offstage who talks about Barclay House, the set of the penultimate illusion of the special. The illusion in question is composed by four phases and the first of them consists in turn of four parts. All the phases regard the presence and manifestation of ghosts and spirits remained in the upper room which somehow escaped the destruction of a house that burned down because of a lightning during a storm. The room has a pentagonal shape and has been rebuilt on the stage, on which David Copperfield brings two boys and a girl from the audience. Then he asks the boys to tie his hands, back and neck, and then the ankles to the legs of a chair inserted into the room. This condition serves to prevent Copperfield from moving himself into the room itself and manipulating objects within it. Meantime an assistant put into the room a jacket and a box containing various objects including newspapers and a bell. The four parts of the first phase consist in the interaction of the ghosts and spirits with the objects placed in the room. In the second phase Copperfield asks the three spectators to enter the room and to blindfold themselves. At this point the two frontal walls of the room close themselves to hide the interior and then spark everywhere. At last, all five walls open themselves to show that the three spectators have disappeared from the stage. After a few seconds the room turns to ash because of several consecutive explosions from its interior. In the third phase five sheets that come from the stage begin to float in the theater going into the most different routes over the heads of the audience, until the lights go out, leaving everything in complete darkness for a few seconds. In the four and last phase, there is the reappearance on the stage of the three spectators: a table and a scaffolding are placed on the stage, on the scaffolding four sheets have been hung to hide the four sides of the space above the table, and when three shadows appear on the front sheet, the latter is dropped to show the three spectators standing on the table, still blindfolded. So the illusions performed are: "The Fan", "Vanishing Egg", "Floating Table", "The Blade", "Grandpa's Four Aces", "Touch The Magic - The Clock" (aka "Interactive Clock Illusion", the 4th and last of the interactive games performed beginning with the 13th special), "Barclay House" and then "Snow". At the end of this last illusion all the snow produced by the Copperfield's hands spreads in all the hall of the theater.
- An experimental short film from Robert Breer with various colorful animations.
- Screen titles introduce the film as an attempt to see sound. Reinald Werrenrath sings Wagner's "O Evening Song," as the artist creates moods through the eye. The abstract forms are generated by light playing on paper clips, jars, rings, and paper cut outs that are then rendered in multiple images. Shapes like stairways appear as the light exposes first the bottom then more; then the light gradually leaves. A statue of a woman appears. Shapes materialize then disappear. Reflection, refraction, dissolves, and superimposition combine with kaleidoscope effects. A lily appears as the song ends.
- The bear has strange dreams about a beaver, a lone duck, and a cube of abundance. A cartoon parody of the classics of surrealism.
- In this experimental short film, paint changes dynamically of shapes and colors against a musical background, conforming an abstract, suggestive and even mystical experience.
- This program has been conceived by ABC network to provide several anticipations about its upcoming season of programs. 14 ABC stars have taken part to this variety show, composed by dialogues, music, dancing, songs, and above all by magic. In fact the program was conducted by a 21 year old illusionist, David Seth Kotkin, whose stage name is David Copperfield, who made his "official" debut on television in this occasion, after a first appearance in Magic at the Roxy (1976). The official title of this program, "the magic of abc", is shown in the screen of the television set used as a prop in the first illusion, called "TV Appearance From Empty Box". The other illusions performed are: "Card Productions", "Production Of Hal Linden", "Psycho Shower Scene", "Levitating TV Antenna", "David Cut In Half Lengthwise", "Backstage With The Magician", "Maltese Canary, Lemon, Egg" and "Sailor Scene". By its nature, this program has been conceived for airing only once and on ABC network only, so it was never reaired, or officially redistribuited in home video. However, it has been so successful that it convinced the producer Joseph Cates to put Copperfield under contract to produce for CBS network an annual series of specials called "The Magic of David Copperfield", the first of which has been broadcasted the following year, on Friday, October 27th.
- A 30-second classical style experimental one-shot film of a guy carefully walking down the outdoor stairway of the Lebanese historical wounded movie theater "The Egg".
- Michael Myers returns in this short fan film based on the 1978 classic.