Скачать или смотреть Ellisdons, The History: Volume 2. The story of the great magic and joke shop continues.

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In this video we look at some of the bizarre and interesting novelties connected to the new book on Britain's beloved mail-order joke shop Ellisdons.

The video features some of their illustrated catalogues and many of their tricks and jokes. It also includes some of the vintage magic tricks and magic sets that started the careers and hobbies of thousands of magicians.

00:00 Introduction to the books.
01:20 WWII and Woolworths.
10:15 The first post-war catalogues.
15:04 Ellisdons' 1953 magic set.
18:30 The magic department grows.
23:10 The 1958 joke set.
26:30 The 1960 magic set.
30:25 Packaging evolves.
39:46 Conclusion.