- Title: SR-79
- Summary: The Amazing Kreskin: From 1971 to 1975, Kreskin's television series The Amazing World of Kreskin was broadcast throughout Canada on CTV and distributed in syndication in the United States. The series was produced in Ottawa, Ontario at the CJOH-TV studios. An additional set of episodes was produced in 1975, billed as The New Kreskin Show. He appeared on The Tonight Show 61 times from 19701980. In the 1980s and 1990s he came to prominence again through several appearances on Late Night with David Letterman. In 2009, he became the first guest to make three appearances on the new Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.[citation needed] He is still active as a live performer, appears regularly on WPIX in New York City, and appears annually on the Fox News Channel and CNN to give his New Year's Day predictions for the coming year.[3] One of his best known tricks is finding his check for a performance, which he instructs the audience to hide while he is escorted off stage and into seclusion by other members of the audience. While finding the check on most occasions, he has failed to find the check nine times.[ Though Kreskin makes "predictions," he does not claim to have paranormal or clairvoyant powers, and does not like to be considered a "psychic".[5] He teaches classes for law enforcement groups, which "focuses on psychological methods such as jogging lost memories through relaxation techniques or detecting lies through body language and voice inflections."[5] GEORGE JOSPEH KRESKE
- Description:01:00:14 - KRESKIN IN THE BRITISH ISLES. VOICE OVER "....WELCOME TO THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN". 01:00:18 - SHOW STARTS, KRESKIN (MENTALIST) COMES OUT TO STAGE, USUAL PAD, PENCIL IN HAND. ZOOM AWAY MAN IN AUDIENCE TO FULL SHOT OF AUDIENCE APPLAUDING. KRESKIN WELCOMES A YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN FROM AUDIENCE ON STAGE. 01:01:52 - CU KRESKIN SHOWS TWO WHITE CARDS SANDWICHED BETWEEN 2 PIECES OF CLEAR PLASTIC. HE THEN HANDS MAN FOLDED PIECE OF BROWN PAPER WHICH HE ASKS MAN TO UNFOLD. HE THEN HAS MAN WRAP THE TWO WHITE CARDS IN PLASTIC, WITH LARGE PIECE OF BROWN PAPER. 01:03:34 - CU KRESKIN TAKES DECK OF PLAYING CARDS, REMOVES JOKERS, SHUFFLES DECK SEVERAL TIMES, QUICKLY SPLITS DECK, FLARES IT, HAS GIRL TAKE CARD AT TOP AND NOT SHOW IT... 01:04:25 - KRESKIN THEN FLARES DECK OF CARDS BEHIND HIS BACK, HAS MAN PICK 2 CARDS PLACE ONE IN HIS POCKET. KRESLIN TURNS HIS BACK AND HAS MAN AND WOMAN SHOW THEIR CARDS TO AUDIENCE. CU MAN SHOWS 9 OF SPADES, WOMAN SHOWS QUEEN OF DIAMONDS. 01:05:10 - KRESKIN NOW OPENS THE BROWN WRAPPING PAPER, BEFORE IT IS FULLY OPEN HE HAS BOTH MAN AND WOMAN PLACE THEIR CARDS ON PACK OF DECK HE HOLDS IN HAND, CUTS THE DECK, SHUFFLES DECK. 01:05:44 - KRESKIN HAS BOTH GUETS TO PLACE RUBBER BAND AROUND UNROLLED BROWN PAPER PACKAGE., MAN THEN PLACES MARKING PENCIL UNDER THE RUBBER BAND. HE THEN HAS GUESTS HOLD DOWN BOTH ENDS OF PAPER 01:06:21 - KRESKIN THEN TAKES THE DECK OF CARDS AND PRESSES THEN VERY HARD DOWN ON THE CENTER OF LONG PAPER ROLL BEING HELD DOWN ON EACH END BY 2 GUESTS. HE SCATTERS THE DECK ON BROWN WRAPPER 01:07:05 - AS HE SPREADS CARDS ON PAPER WRAPPER, AMAZINGLY, THE TWO BLANK WHITE CARDS WHICH WERE ENCLOSED IN PLASTIC, MAGICALLY APPEAR AMUID THE SCATTERED CARDS. 01:07:32 - ON FURTHER EXAMINATION, BOTH CARDS PREVIOUSLY SHOWN TO AUDIENCE BY THE MAN AND WOMAN (9 OF SPADES AND QUEEN OF DIAMONDS) ARE ABSENT FROM THE DECK. 01:07:46 - HE THEN ASKS GUESTS TO OPEN UP THE PACKAGE. AMAZINGLY, THE QUEEN OF DIAMONDS AND 9 OF SPADES ARE REVEALED SANDWICHED BETWEEN THE 2 CLEAR PLASTIC SQUARES 01:08:26 - MAN THEN SHOWS CARD HE EARLIER PLACED IN POCKET (4 OF CLUBS). CU KRESKIN SHOWS "4 OF CLUBS"WRITTEN ON BACK OF THE 2 PLASTIC SQUARES.MAN AND WOMAN EXIT STAGE. 01:08:50 - STATION BREAK 01:10:53 - KRESKIN SHOW RETURNS - INTRODUCES SPECIAL GUEST, AUTHOR MISS ROSEMARY DOWNS. WRITER OF BOOK "UNFINISHED SYMPHONY"BOTH SEATED ON SWIVEL CHAIRS ON STAGE., KRESKIN TALKS OF HER APPEARANCE ON "JOHNNY CARSON SHOW". 01:11:43 - CU ROSEMARY BROWN SPEAKS OF BEING BORN WITH THE UNIQUE ABILITY TO (MENTALLY) COMMUNICATE WITH SUCH GREAT COMPOSERS AND OTHERS, SUCH AS FRANZ LIST, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN , ETC. SHE SAID IT BECAME APPARENT AS A CHILD, 01:12:28 - ROSEMARY SAYS THAT THE MUSIC SHE WROTE IN HER BOOK WAS TRANSMITTED TO HER BY THE COMPOSERS WHO TOLD HER WHAT TO WRITE., ROSEMARY SAYS SHE HAD VERY LITTLE TRAINING IN MUSIC. 01:13:56 - CU ROSEMARY SAYS, THE COMPOSERS HAVE TRANSMITTED ABOUT 500 SONGS TO HER. LIST GIVING HER THE MOST, FOLLOWED BY CHOPIN. 01:14:28 - STATION BREAK 01:15:32 - ROSEMARY BROWN AT BABY GRAND PIANO AND KRESKIN STANDING BY HER. KRESKIN SAYS ROSEMARY'S UNIQUE ABILITY NAY BE A FORM OF CLAIRVOYANCE. ROSEMARY SAYS SHE MET KEONARD BERNSTEIN, WHO COMMENTATED ON HER WORK. SHE EXPLAINS. 01:16:39 - TO 01 20 06 VARIOUS SHOTS ROSEMARY PLAYING CHOPIN ON PIANO. AUDIENCE APPLAUSE AFTER FINISH. 01:20:22 - STATION BREAK 01:22:25 - RETURN TO AMAZING KRESKIN AT PIANO, DOING GOOD JOB PLAYING CLASSIC MUSIC- KRESLIN THEN INVITES, ASSURES THEY WERE PICKED BY CHANCE FROM AUDIENCE WITHOUT KRESKIN'S KNOWLEDGE. 01:23:44 - STILL SEATED AT PIANO, KRESKIN HANDS EACH OF THE 2 GUESTS A LARGE WHITE CARD, HAS THEM TURN TO A LIST OF 40 SONGS, SOME POPULAR, SOME OLD, ON A LARGE BLACKBOARD. 01:24:13 - KRESKIN ASKS EACH OF GUESTS TO LOOK AND MEMORIZE ONE OF THE SONGS, HAS THEM ESCORTED BACK STAGE, WHERE THEY WILL WRITE THE SONG ON THE CARDBOARD, RETURN TO STAGE WITH CARD HELD AGAINST THEM, SO NO ONE CAN SEE THE NAMES OF SONGS. 01:24:44 - CU KRESKIN SHOWS AUDIENCE A STACK OF SMALL CARDS, WITH EACH OF THE 40 SONGS WRITTEN ON THEM. HE SHUFFLES THEM. HE [PLACES CARDS ON PIANO AS GUESTS RETURN WITH THEIR LARGE CARS IN FRONT OF THEM, SONG NAME CONCEALED. 01:25:49 - KRESKIN HAS MAN STEP BEHIND HIM AT PIANO, PLACE MANS HAND ON HIS (KRESKIN) SHOULDER. 01:25:53 - KRESKIN AT PIANO TELLS MAN, "WHEN I SAY "BEGIN", "I WANT YOU TO CONCENTRATE ON THE SONG". AMAZINGLY, KRESKIN PLAYS THE SONG MAN HAD CONCEALED ON CARD (LOVE STORY). WHICH KRESKIN PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY. 01:27:00 - KRESKIN THEN ASKS WOMAN TO APPROACH WITH HER CONCEALED CARD. KRESKIN TAKES THE STACK OF CARDS WITH 40 SONG NAMES ON THEM, SCATTERS THEM, NAME DOWN ON PIANO SEAT. 01:27:14 - KRESKIN HAS WOMAN GRAB HIS WRIST, HAS HER RUN HIS HAND ALONG TOP OF CARDS, THEN PRESS DOWN HIS EXTENDED FINGER ON CENTER OF STACK TO A SINGLE CARD. WHICH HE FORCES OUT OF PACK. 01:27:25 - HE TURNS CARD OVER AND AMAZINGLY, IT IS NAME OF SONG SHE PICKED ("HI LILI, HI LO"). KRESLIN DISMISSES GUESTS, SITS TO PLAY PIANO.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1976
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: SR-79
