- Title: SR-80
- 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:01:00:00 - START " THE AMAZING KRESKIN (ENGLAND)SHOW". KRESKIN COMES OUT TO STAGE. KREAKIN SAYASHIS SHOW WILL BE ALL ABOUT "THE PENTHOUSE PETS (BEAUTIFUL WOMEN). SAY BEING A MENTALIST HE MAY FIND IT VERY HARD TO CONCENTRATE. 01:00:48 - KRESKIN INTRODUCES 3 OF THE PENTHOUSE PEtS. "CHEROKEE, HELEN AND JOANN COME OUT TO STAGE.. THREE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS CONME OUT ON STAGE. 01:02:09 - KRESKIN TOSSES OUT TWO LONG RIBBONS IN FRONT OF THE GIRLS, HAS THE GIRL ON EACH END OF THE 3 STRETCH OUR THE RIBBONS, THEN TAKES THE RIBBONS BACK, FOLDED AT THE CENTER. 01:02:28 - WITH RIBBON IN HAND, KRESLKIN HANDS GIRL IN CENTER (CHEROKEE) A FOLDER WITH HIS PASSPORT IN IT. HE TAKES BACK THE PASSPORT AND HAS HE HOLD ON TO THE FOLDER. KRESKIN HAS CHEROKEE ATTACH THE FOLDER TO THE STRETCHED OUT RIBBONS, WITH PAPER CLIPS. 01:04:08 - KRESKIN HANDS EACH END OF THE RIBBONS, WITH FOLDER CLIPPED ON IN THE CENTER, TO EACH OF THE TWO GIRLS AND HAS CHEROKEE IN THE CENTER HOLD ONTO EACH END OF THE FOLDER. HOLD IT AGAINST HER STOMACH. 01:04:42 - KRESKIN THEN TAKES EACH END OF THE RIBBONS FROM THE TWO GIRLS AND RUNS THE RIBBON THROUGH EACH OF THE BRACELETS CHEROKEE HAS ON EACH HAND, THEN GIVES THE GIRLS BACK EACH ENDS OF THE RIBBONS. 01:05:24 - KRESKIN THEN TAKES ONE END OF THE DOUBLE RIBBON FROM EACH GIRL AS HE STANDS BEHIND CHEROKEE AND TIES THEM TOGETHER BEHIND CHEROKEE, THEN HANDS THEM BACK TO EACH GIRL.. 01:05:37 - KRESKIN ASKS CHEROKEE TO TAKE 3 STEPS FORWARD AS THE GIRLS HOLD ON TIGHTLY TO THE RIBBONS. MAGICALLY THE RIBBONS BREAK AWAY FROM CHEROKEE, LEAVING HER WITH FOLDER IN HAND AND GIRLS HOLDING ONTO THE ENDS OF THE (UNBROKEN) RIBBONS. . 01:06:12 - STATION BREAK 01:06:13 - KRESKIN RETURNS, THIS TIME HE HAS 7 PENTHOUSE PETS, 6 SEATED ON BENCHES AROUND HIM AND CHEROKEE STANDING. KRESKIN ASKS CHEROKEE TO STEP FORWARD. ANNOUNCES THAT CHEROKEE WAS "MISS PENTHOUSE PET OF THE YEAR 1873". FACE SHOT CHEROKEE. 01:06:45 - KRESKIN INTERVIEWS CHEROKEE AND EACH OF THE OTHER 6 PENTHOUSE PETS. 01:09:54 - STATION BREAK 01:09:56 - KRESKIN RETURNS WITH 3 OF PENTHOUSE PETS *NAGELA, SUZIE AND ANGELA) SEATED AT CARD TABLE ON STAGE. KRESKIN SHOWS THEM A DECK OF "EDUCATIONAL" CARDS, WHICH HAVE WORDS, NAMES, OBJECTS, ETC. ON THEM, OF WHICH KRESKIN WILL DO "AN EXPERIMENT IN MENTAL DIRECTION". 01:10:43 - KRESKIN DEALS OUT THE CARDS INTO 3 PILES IN FRONT OF THE GIRLS, ALONG WITH A PENCIL A COIN(A QUARTER) AND A CIGARETTE,. HE HAS ONE OF THE ANGELAS MIX ONE PILE OF CARDS. LYS ALL 56OF THEM FACE DOWN ON TABLE. 01:11:56 - KRESLIN HAS ANGELA DROP THE PENCIL ONTO 3 OF THE 6 CARDS, WHICH SHE DOES. OF THE 3 CARDS WHICH THE PENCIL WAS NOT DROPPED, THE WORDS "TWO", "THREE", AND "ONE" " APPEARED ON THEM WHEN TURNED OVER.ONE" 01:12:20 - KRESKIN ASKS ANGELA TO TAKE THE PENCIL AND DROP IT ONTO 2 OF THE REMAINING 3 CARDS. SHE DOES. WHEN REVEALED THE CARDS HAD "RING" AND "WATCH" WRITTEN ON THEM. KRESKIN PUSHES THE REMAINING CARD ASIDE, FACE DOWN, WITH THE PENCIL ON IT. 01:12:47 - KRESKIN LAYS SUZIE'S CARDS FACE DOWN IN FRONT OF HER, HAS HER HOLD CIGARETTE UP IN HAND AND SAY ANY NUMBER FROM 1 TO 6.. SUZIE SAYS "FIVE" 01:13:07 - CU KRESKIN COUNTS ALONG ALONG THE TOPS OF THE 6 CARDS LAYING 6 ACROSS, STOPS AT 5. HAS HER PLACE THE CIGARETTE ON THE 5TH CAR. KRESKIN PUSHES THAT CARD AWAY FROM THE OTHERS. 01:13:25 - KRESKIN NOW ASKS ANGELA #2 TO LAY HER 6 CARDS FACE DOWN, THEN AS HE TURNS HIS BACK ON HER, TELLS HER TO RUN HER HAND WITH THE QUARTER ACROSS THE CARDS, THAN PLACE IT DOWN ON ONE OF THEM. SHE DOES. KRESKIN TAKES THAT CARD AND PUSHES IT ASIDE NEXT TO THE CARDS WITH THE PENCIL AND THE CIGARETTE. 01:14:22 - AMAZINGLY WHEN HE TURNS OVER THE CARD WITH THE PENCIL ON IT, IT CONTAINS THE WORD "PENCIL THE WORD "TOBACCO" ON THE CIGARETTE CAR, THE WORDS "TWENTY FIVE CENTS" ON THE QUARTER CARD. 01:15:23 - STATION BREAK 01:15:25 - KRESKIN RETURNS - AUDIENCE APPLAUSE. - SPEAKS OF GREAT AUTHORITY ON MAGIC ,JOHN MORGAN HILLIARD WHO IN 1934 WROTE FOR A GROUP OF 20 MAGICIANS, "IT WAS THE NEAREST APPROACH OF EXPERIENCING REAL MAGIC I SHALL EVER HOPE TO ACHIEVE. KRESKIN SAYS HE IS GOING TO DUPLICATE THAT MAGIC. 01:16:26 - KRESKIN SAYS HE IS A MENTALIST AND NOT NECESSARILY A MAGICIAN, SO HE WILL ADD A TOUCH OF THOUGHT READING TO IT. HE HAS ASSISTANT ANN KING JOIN HIM. HE HAS ANN OPEN A NEW DECK OF CARDS FOR HIM. 01:16:52 - CU KRESLIN SHUFFLING THE CARDS. HE HAS ANN GO TO AUDIENCE WITH CARDS, HAND IT TO A GENTLEMAN IN AUDIENCE. SHE DOES AND RETURNS TO STAGE. 01:17:44 - KRESKIN ASKS MAN WITH DECK IN HAND 1970S LONG HAIR STYLE), "HOLD IT UP TO YOUR EYES, SOON AS YOU SEE A CARD, IMMEDIATELY CLOSE DECK". KRESKIN ASKS HIM TO TOSS DECK TO ANOTHER MAN. THAT MAN DOES SAME AND PASSES DECK TO WOMAN WHO DOES SAME. 01:18:28 - KRESKIN ASKS WOMAN TO TOSS CARDS TO HIM ON STAGE. SHE DOES. KRESKIN ASKS THE 3 IN AUDIENCE TO STAND AS HE GOES TO BLACK BOARD. HE WRITES 1, 2, 3 ON BLACK BOARD, THEN ASKS STANDING AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO CONCENTRATE 01:19:04 - 3 MEMBERS STANDING IN AUDIENCE WITH EYES CLOSED (CONCENTRATING). "THEY ARE PHOTOGRAPHING IN THEIR MIND, CLEARLY WHAT THEY SAW", SAYS KRESKIN 01:19:19 - KRESKIN WRITES ON BLACJ BOARD, 1.5 SPADES; 2. JACK HEARTS; 3. 9 CLUBS..KRESKIN SUCCESSFULLY GUESSED ALL THREE CARDS. AUDIENCE APPLAUDS.. 01:20:19 - KRESKIN NOW PLACES THE DECK OF CARDS IN A GLASS ON TABLE STEPS AWAY FROM IT, SAYS, "I WANT THE 5 OF SPADES TO BE ACTIVATED" HE STEPS NEAR THE GLASS, HOLDS HIS HAND OVER IT AND DAYS, "5 OF SPADES, I WANT YOU TO RISE" 01:20:41 - CU 5 OF SPADES MAGICALLY RISES FROM THE DECK IN THE GLASS. HE THEN ASKS ASSISTANT TO HOLD GLASS WHICH SHE DOES. KRESKIN ASKS HER TO TELL THE JACK OF HEARTS TO RISE, SHE DOES, AND MAGICALLY THE CARD RISES AS DID THE OTHER ONE. 01:21:40 - KRESKIN COVERS THE DECK IN A GLASS JAR, WALKS AWAY FROM TABLE TO BLACK BOARD, SAYS "9 OF CLUBS, PLEASE RISE, NOW!". ZOOM IN ON JAR. CARD MAGICALLY RISING. 01:22:18 - KRESKIN TELLS AUDIENCE THAT HE VOWED TO CARRY THE MYSTERY OF THIS TRICK TO HIS GRAVE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1976
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: SR-80
