- Title: SR-81
- 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:01:00:29 - THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN (S PROGRAM 38 BEGINS. 01:00:34 - LIMO PULLS UP TO CURB, SNOW ON GROUND, KRESKIN WEARING WINTER COAT WITH FUR COLLAR GETS OUT WITH ANOTHER MAN. KRESKIN INTRODUCES HIM AS BILL LUSHTON (?) (KRESKIN: "THE GREATEST ASSOCIATION OF MY LIFE"). THE TWO SPEAK OF MUTUAL EXPERIENCES. 01:01:51 - KRESKIN SAYS," TONIGHT I WILL DO AN EXPERIMENT, AFTER THE 2 RUSSIAN GIRLS WHO ARE EXPERT ON ESP JOIN US". KRESKIN SAYS IN TODAY'S PROGRAM HE IS NOT GOING TO TRY TO PERCEIVE ANYONE'S THOUGHTS. HE WILL "REVERSE THE EXPERIMENT". ASKS THE VIEWING AUDIENCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EXPERIMENT. 01:03:09 - KRESKIN SPEAKS TO STUDIO ANNOUNCER FROM OUTSIDE. 01:03:11 - STUDIO ANNOUNCER, PING PONG BALL IN HAND, STANDS BEFORE AUDIENCE,SPEAKS TO KRESKIN WHO IS IN STREET OUTSIDE STUDIO. KRESKIN ASKS ANNOUNCER TO THROW BALL OVER HIS HEAD TO STUDIO AUDIENCE, WHO IS ASKED TO STAND WHEN HE CATCHES IT.. 01:03:31 - MAN WITH BALL STANDS, COMES DOWN STEPS TO JOIN ANNOUNCER. KRESKIN TELLS ANNOUNCER TO AS FOR MAN'S NAME. KRESKIN ASKS MAN IF "WE HAVE EVER MET BEFORE?" MAN (CLAUDE) SAYS "NO!" 01:04:15 - KRESKIN HOLDS UP DECK OF CARDS IN HAND, SAYS HE HAS PLACED A CARD FROM ANOTHER DECK, FACE DOWN IN THAT DECK . ASKS CLAUDE AND AUDIENCE IF THEY SEE HIM ON STUDIO MONITOR. THEY DO. 01:05:00 - KRESKIN ASKS CLAUDE IF THERE IS A CARD THAT PROJECTS IN HIS (CLAUDE) MIND. AND IF SO CALL IT OUT LOUD. "FOUR OF CLUBS", SAYS CLAUDE. 01:05:08 - KRESKIN PULLS DECK OF CARDS OUT OF HIS POCKET, CU RIFLES THROUGH THEM AND AMAZINGLY, 4 OF CLUBS IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE DECK FACING UP. IT ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE ONLY RED BACK CARD IN THE DECK, PROVING THAT IT CAME FROM ANOTHER DECK. 01:05:41 - STATION BREAK 01:05:44 - RETURN TO SHOW - ANNOUNCER INTRODUCES AUTHORS OF BOOK, " PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN". LYNN SCHROEDER AND SHEILA HOUFENDER (?) 01:05:54 - KRESKIN WELCOMES TWO AUTHOR GUESTS ON STAGE. ALL THREE SIT ON CHAIRS FACING AUDIENCE. PAN 1970S APPLAUDING AUDIENCE. INTERVIEWS THEM ABOUT BOOK WHICH IS ABOUT ESP. 01:07:06 - GUESTS SAY THEY HAVE BEEN WRITING ABOUT RUSSIA SINCE 1965. SAYS ESP HAS BEEN TABOO UBDER STALIN BOUT THEY WERE ENCOURAGE BY A RUSSIAN PUBLICATION WHICH SAID THAT "TELEPATHY DOES EXIST" AND THAT "SCIENCE SHOULD LOOK INTO IT". SO THEY BEGAN TO CORRESPOND WITH THEM. 01:07:19 - "WE RECEIVED AN INVITATION FROM THEM, INVITING THEM TO MOSCOW. RUSSIANS GOT INTO KILIAN (?) PHOTOGRAPHY WHICH SHOWED COLOR SURROUNDING THE HUMAN BODY AND ALL LIVING THINGS. "RUSSIANS WANT TO MAKE THIS VISIBLE TO ALL OF US, INSTEAD OF ONLY PHYSICS". 01:08:32 - KRESKIN ASKS THE WOMEN IF ANY OF OUR COUNTRY'S SCIENTISTS AGREE WITH THE RUSSIAN VERSION. THEY GIVE EXAMPLES OF A LOT OF RESEARCH BEING DONNE IN THIS COUNTRY. SHE GIVES EXAMPLES. 01:09:35 - THEY SPEAK ABOUT A MAN NAMED MESSING (NOW IN HIS 70S) WHO HAD GONE TO RUSSIA, FROM POLAND, TO ESCAPE THE NAZI. WAS TOLD "THEREWAS NO SUCH THING OF THESE MENTAL TRICKS YOU ARE DOING" 01:09:51 - "ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHP TESTED MESSING DIRECTLY WAS JOSEF STALIN HIMSELF" STALIN ASKED HIM TO "MENTALLY ROB A BANK". MESSING WENT TO THE TELLER, LAYED OUT A PIECE OF PAPER WITH THE AMOUNT HE WANTED., WHICH WAS 100,000 RUBLES. 01:10:18 - THE TELLER HANDED THE MONEY OVER TO MESSING, WHO TOOK IT TO STALIN. MESSING WAS REQUIRED TO TAKE THE MONEY BACK. BY THEN THE TELLER CAME TO. 01:11:02 - COMMERCIAL BREAK 01:11:05 - RETURN TO SHOW - APPLAUDING AUDIENCE. TO STAGE WITH KRESKIN AND 2 FEMALE GUESTS. SPEAKS OF FILM THEY BROUGHT OUT OF USSR, THAT WILL BE VIEWED. 01:12:06 - KRESKIN ASKS THEM ABOUT PSYCHOKINESIS (ABILITY OF MIND TO CONTROL OBJECTS), LIKE IN STAR-TREK . THEY SPEAK OF RUSSIAN HOUSEWIFE MARY MIKOLOVA (?) WHO SUPPOSEDLY HAD THIS POWER (MIND OVER MATTER). 01:12:37 - GUEST SAYS THE RUSSIANS ARE LOOKING FOR SOME KIND OF ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH A PSYCHIC EVENT.. THE MIND MAY BE ABLE TO TURN ON SOME KIND OF MACHINERY 01:13:29 - KRESKIN HAS STUDIO TURN ON THE FILM SHOWING MARY MIKOLOVA (?) ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A NEEDLE ON A COMPASS REVOLVE VIA PSYCHOKINESIS, BY RUNNING HER HANDS OVER IT. CU SHOTS OF EVENT. 01:13:52 - CU SHOT MIKOLOVA HANDS MOVING OVER COMPASS AND NEEDLE ON COMPASS REVOLVING. VOICE OVER KRESKIN GUEST TELLS OF OTHER EXTRAORDINARY EXAMPLES OF PSYCHOKINESIS DEMONSTRATIONS BY MIKOLOVA. 01:14:52 - FILM SHOWS MIKOLOVA MOVING SALT SHAKER ACROSS TABLE VIA PSYCHOKINESIS. 01:15:51 - STATION BREAK 01:15:57 - RETURN AMAZING KRESKIN WITH HE AND BOTH FEMALE GUESTS STANDING ON STAGE. KRESKIN SAYS HE IS GOING TO DO SOMETHING WHICH HE SAID "TOTALLY FAILED", THE LAST TIME HE TRIED IT. 01:16:37 - AS GIRLS WATCH, KRESKIN GETS A SHEET OF GLASS, PLACES IT ON FOLDING CHAIRS FACING BACK TO BACK , A FEW FEET AWAY FROM EACH OTHER. 01:16:59 - KRESKIN HANDS ONE GUEST A GLASS (GOBLET) AND THE OTHER A RUBBER BALL. HE NARKS THE GLASS WITH A PIECE OF TAPE,HAS GUEST QUEEZE THE BALL TO SHOW IT CONTAINS NO ELECTRONIC DEVICE IN IT. 01:18:08 - KRESKIN TAKES A BLACK BOX, WITH TOP OPENING HAVING A SLIDING CURTAIN, FACING CAMERA, PLACES CANDLE AND HOLDER ON TOP OF BOX. PLACES BOTH THE RUBBER BALL AND THE GOBLET IN BOX, FACING CAMERA, CLOSES CURTAIN HIDING BALL AND GOBLET. 01:19:08 - KRESKIN HAS ONE GUEST TAKE THE CANDLE , THE OTHER LIGHTS IT. HAS ONE GUEAT STAND BEHIND THE BOX WITH THE BALL AND GOBLET IN IT. THE OTHER TO THE SIDE. HE HAS GIRL PLACE THE CANDLE ON TOP OF BOX. 01:20:58 - USING HIS VERSION OF PSYCHOKINESIS, KRESKIN TELLS THE BALL TO MOVE OVER TO THE GLASS, CLIMB UP ITS SIDE AND FALL INTO THE GLASS. BOTH ARE STILL COVERED BY CURTAIN. 01:21:19 - KRESKIN HAS GUEST BLOW OUT THE CANDLE, HAS THE OTHER REMOVE IT FROM TOP OF BOX. HE THEN HAS ONE OF GUESTS OPEN THE CURTAIN TO SEE HOW MUCH THE BALL MOVED TOWARDS CANDLE. 01:21:40 - AMAZINGLY, THE BALL DID NOT ONLY MOVE TOWARDS THE GLASS, BUT CLIMBED IT AND FELL INTO THE GLASS. CU KRESKIN TAKES GLASS AND EMPTIES BALL ONTO ONE OF THE GUREST'S HAND. 01:22:34 - KRESKIN TELLS AUDIENCE THAT THE RUSSIANS ARE OPENING THE DOOR TO A NEW PERSPECTIVE, AND "I THINK WE SHOULD OPEN OUR EYES".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1976
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: SR-81
