- Title: SR-84
- 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:01:01:12 - TITLE: "AMAZING KREAKIN SHOW 2-27, AUGUST 8, 1977" 01:01:33 - KRESKIN COMES ONTO STAGE, USUAL CLIPBOARD AND PENCIL IN HAND, STANDS BY HIGH BACK LEATHER CHAIR. CUT TO AUDIENCE APPLAUSE. 01:02:01 - KRESKIN SAYS THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE 5TH YEQR OF THIS PROGRAM, AND THAT IN LIGHT OF CERTAIN THINGS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, "HE WILL DEPART FROM"HIS REGULAR PROGRAM" 01:02:14 - "ANYONE IN YOUR HOME, A TEENAGER, A PERSON IN COLLEGE OR ANY OTHER PERSON, INTERESTED IN PLAYING POLITICS, HISTORY, FASCINATED WITH THE POWER OF THE MIND, YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO SIT DOWN AND LISTEN ......". 01:02:46 - COMMERCIAL BREAK. 01:03:49 - RETURN TO KRESKIN .. INTRODUCES 2 GUEST, JOURNALISTS. ANCHORMAN FOR CTV NEWS, LlOYD ROBERTSON AND PRODUCER OF PROGRAM "BACVK GROUND", DEALING WITH TOPICS OF INTERNATIONAL NATURE,(THE COLD WAR) "TOM GULE(?)" 01:04:49 - KRESKIN SITS BETWEEN THEM AT A NEWS TYPE PROGRAM DESK, FACING AUDIENCE. 01:05:38 - KRESKIN SPEAKS TO NEWSMEN ABOUT ROBERT COKE (?) WHO WAS INCARCERATED IN USSR, BY THE KGB, BECAUSE HE HAD STOLEN A TOP SECRET PAPER ABOUT "PARA PSYCHOLOGY". 01:06:08 - KRESKIN SAYS THE KGB USED THE PAPER AS AN EXCUSE. GULE AGREES BECAUSE HE SAID THE RUSSIANS DIDN'T LIKE HIM TAKING DOCUMENTS OUT OF THE USSR. 01:06:32 - KRESKIN SAYS ESP AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. WAS OUTLAWED IN STALIN ERA. HOWEVER STALIN HAD A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS QUIETLY RESEARCH IT THROUGH THE 40S AND 50S. 01:07:33 - LLOYD ROBERTSON SAYS, THE RUSSIANS WOULD BE FASCINATED IN MIND CONTROL. HE BELIEVES "IT IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE TO BRAIN WASH INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS, BASED ON PERSON'S INSECURITIES".". 01:08:43 - KRESKIN DEFINS ESP. HE MENTIONS ARTHUR GODFREY AND MARK TWAIN WHO SEEN THEIR FATHER DIE AT HOME, DIE WHILE THEY WERE AT SEA . IT COULD NOT HAVER BEEN A COINCIDENT IF THEY SAW THEM DIE AT THE SAME MOMENT OF DEATH. 01:10:10 - COMMERCIAL BREAK. 01:12:13 - RETURN AMAZING KRESKIN WHO INTRODUCES HIS NEXT GUEST, STAR OF "KENYA KESSINGTON (?)" , AL WAXMAN. CUT TO APPLAUDING 1970S AUDIENCE. WAXMAN SITS AT DESK WITH KRESKIN.. 01:13:51 - KRESKIN TELLS GUEST, "SOMEONE I KNOW HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN BECAUSE HE STUDIED TO BE AN INTELLIGENCE AGENT". "HE WAS GOING TO BE DROPPED BY PARACHUTE INTO A COMMUNIST COUNTRY" 01:13:51 - "HE HAD TO LEARN TO BECOME DRUNK IN THE LANGUAGE, PRAY, BECOME UPSET, ANGRY, DRINK, BECAUSE NO ONE HAD TO SUSPECT THAT HE WAS NOT A MEMBER OF THAT COUNTRY". 01:14:13 - KRESKIN CONTINUES---"HIS FATHER WAS VERY PROUD OF HIM THAT THE DAY HE GRADUATED, HIS FATHER WAS SO PROUD OF HIM, HE PUT HIS (SON'S) PICTURE IN A LOCAL NEWSPAPER. 01:14:24 - KRESSKIN -- "BECAUSE OF THIS, HIS SON'S CARER IN INTELLIGENCE WAS CANCELLED.S. WITHIN 24 HOURS, HIS PICTURE WAS ALL OVER RUSSIA".. 01:14:42 - KRESKIN TAKES HIS GUEST TO JOIN THE OTHER 2 JOURNALIST GUESTS ON STAGE. ALL 4 SIT ON CHAIRS ON STAGE. 01:15:26 - KRESKIN TELLS OF RUSSIANS PUTTING A MAN IN A BOX, LOWERING HIM 3 TO 4 STORIES UNDER GROUND AND SEE IF THEY CAN FIND RUSSIAN PEOPLE WHO CAN CONCENTRATE ENOUGH TO KNOCK OUT THE MAN. 01:15:43 - KRESKIN SAYS THE RUSSIANS ALSO TRIED TO COMMUNICATE WITH A MAN OUT OF SPACE WITHOUT USING ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT 01:16:25 - KRESKIN HAS A FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANAGER FROM FAMOUS HOTEL COME OUT ON STAGE WITH A TRAY OF SPOONS AND FORKS. THE MAN PLACES THE TRAY ON A SMALL TABLE IN FRONT OF KRESKIN AND HID 3 GUESTS. 01:17:34 - CU KRESKIN HANDS EACH GUEST A SPOON AND FORK, HAS GUESTS HOLD THE UTENSILS TIGHTLY IN THEIR FISTS, HOLDING THEM IN FRONT OF THEM.. 01:18:13 - HE ASKS GUESTS IF ANYONE FEELS A CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE IN ANY OF THR ITEMS IN THEIR HANDS, TO STOP AND LET HIM (KRESKIN) KNOW. 01:18:35 - CU GUEAT SAYS HE IS FEELING ONE GETTING COOLER AND NO CHANGE IN THE OTHER ONE. 01:19:02 - CU KRESKIN ASKS GUEST TO HOLD THE SPOON TIGHTER. KRESKIN THEN BEGINS TO RUB HIS HAND ON THE SPOON IN QUESTION. 01:19:24 - KRESAKIN CONTINUES TO RUB ON THE SPOON WHEN SUDDENLY, THE SPOON BREAKS OFF AT THE STEM. GUEST SAYS THE REMAINING STEM IS VERY HOT. 01:19:51 - COMMERCIAL BREAK 01:21:54 - RETURN AMAZING KRESKIN SHOW - CU KRESKIN AND GUEST AL WAXMAN, HOLDING BOTH PARTS OF BROKEN SPOON IN HANDS. 01:22:24 - KRESKIN AND WAXMAN STAND IN FRONT CARD TABLE WITH INGREDIENTS OF KRESKIN'S NEXT TRICK ON IT. CU KRESKIN SHOWS 2 SETS OF 6, CHILDREN'S BLOCKS ON THE TABLE EACH SET NUMBERED FROM 1 TO 6..THE NUMBER BEING ONLY ON 1 SIDE OF BLOCK. 01:22:40 - KRESKIN ASKS WAXMAN TO STACK THE BLOCKS, ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER (1 AT BOTTOM TO 6 ON TOP), MAKING 2 SINGLE STACKS. KRESKIN PLACES A SMALL CHIMNEY-LIKE BOX OVER HIS STACK, AND LEAVES WAXMAN'S STACK UNCOVERED. 01:23:30 - CU LRESKIN TAKES CHILDREN NUMBER CARDS, HE SHUFFLES THEM, HAS WAXMAN STAND BEHIND HOLDING DECK BEHIND HIMSELF HAS WAXMAN TAKE 1/3 OF DECK FROM (KRESKIN'S)HIS HAND, AND MIX THEM FACE DOWN. 01:24:49 - WHEN FINISHED SHUFFLING CARDS, WAXMAN PLACES THEM BACK INTO KRESKIN'S HAND. KRESKIN PASSES A LARGE CHART AND A PENCIL TO WAXMAN WHO IS STILL STANDING BEHIND KRESKIN. 01:25:05 - KRESKIN HAS WAXMAN (STILL BEHIND KRESKIN) TAKE CARDS, ONE AT A TIME, USING ONLY CARDS 1 TO 6, IF IT IS FROM 1 TO 6 HE IS TO WRITE IT DOWN ON THE CARD.WAXMAN DOES THIS UNTIL HE HAS 6 CARDS WRITTEN DOWN. 01:26:33 - KRESKIN ASKS WAXMAN TO PLACE, THE 6 CARDS HE PICKED, AND WROTE DOWN, FACE DOWN ION TABLE 01:27:13 - KRESKIN ASKS WAXMAN TO PLACE HIS HAND ON KRESKIN'S SHOULDER, AND THINK IN HIS MIND, THE ORDER WHICH HE (WAXMAN) WROTE ON THE CARD. USING THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE (ESP), KRESKIN PROCEEDS IN ATTEMPTING TO PLACE REMAINING BLOCKS ON PILE, IN SAME ORDER ON WAXMAN'S CHART. 01:27:43 - KRESKIN SHOWS STACK OF BLOCKS HE COVERED WITH BOX, STILL IN SAME ORDER FROM 1 TO 6 AS HE PREVIOUSLY PLACED THEM. 01:28:05 - KRESKIN STACKS BLOCKS BOTTOM UP 2, 5, 4 6, 1, 3. AMAZINGLY IN THE SAME ORDER WAXMAN WROTE DOWN ON CHART.. 01:28:24 - MORE AMAZINGLY, KRESKIN REMOVES THE BOX FROM THE BLOCKS HE STACKED FROM 1 TO 6 , AND SHOWED THEM IN THAT ORDER MOMENTS BEFORE, AND NOW ARE STACKED 2,5,4,6,1,3.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1976
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: SR-84
