- Title: SR-85
- 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:01:00:06 - "THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN SHOW", BEGINS' KRESKIN COMES OUT ON STAGE. CUT TO 1970S AUDIENCE APPLAUSE. 01:00:40 - KRESKIN SPEAKS OF HIS NEXT GUEST WHO HAS EXPERIENCED HOT TOPIC OF THE DAY (LATE 1970S), "THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE". CUT TO PAN AUDIENCE. 01:01:06 - KRESKIN HAS EXPERIMENT IN " WITH STUDIO AND HOME AUDIENCE.WORD PROJECTION" 01:01:09 - KRESKIN GOES TO EISEL CONTAINING 5 WORDS CINDERELLA, MAD HATTER, GOLDILOCKS, SNOW WHITE AND HUMPTY DUMPTY, ALL FAIRY TALE CHARACTERS.> 01:01:24 - KRESKIN HOLDS AN ENVELOPE WHICH HE SAYS HAS ONE OF THOSE CHARACTERS IN MIND. HE PLACES THAT ENVELOPE ON THE EASEL BY THE WORDS.. 01:01:53 - KREAKIN ASKS AUDIENCE TO CLOSE THEIR EYES AND THINK OF ONE OF THOSE WORDS THAT LEAVE AN IMPRESSION ON THEIR MIND. KRESKIN SAYS HE HAS ONE ON HIS MIND. KRESKIN SAYS THE NAME HE SEES IS ON A SHEET OF PAPER IN THE ENVELOPE ON THE EASEL. 01:02:01 - PAN STUDIO AUDIENCE WITH THEIR EYES CLOSED AND CONCENTRATING, SOME WITH EYES OPEN. 01:03:21 - COMMERCIAL BREAK 01:03:27 - CU KRESKIN SHOW RETURNS. KRESKIN SEATED IN LEATHER HIGH BACK CHAIR ON STAGE, ASKS THE AUDIENCE TO CONCENTRATE SO HE CAN TUNE IN ON THEIR THOUGHTS. 01:03:51 - KRRESKIN SAYS HE GETS THE INITIALS "JB" . JACK AND BARBARA. MAN STANDS UP, SAYS JACK AND BARBARA ARE RELATIVES IN LONDON, ONTARIO.. KRESKIN ASKS HIM IF HE HAD A RECENT BACK INJURY, THE MAN SAYS "YES". 01:04:58 - KRESKIN SAYS HE IS PROJECTED OCTOBER 17, AND ASKS PERSON TO STAND IF IT IS SO. WOMAN STANDS, SAYS IT IS HER BIRTHDAY. HE INCORRECTLY GUESSES AN ACCIDENT INVOLVING A DOG, HAPPENED TO HER. SHE SAYS NO!. 01:05:42 - KRESAKIN CORRECTLY SUGGESTS THAT SOMEONE IN AUDIENCE IS THINKING OF GOING TO SPAIN. A MIDDLE AGED WOMAN STANDS AND ACKNOWLEDGES IT. HE CORRECTLY GUESSES PERTINENT INFORMATION ABOUT THE WOMAN AND ANOTHER NEXT TO HER. 01:06:54 - KRESKIN CORRECTLY GUESSES THAT SOMEONE IS THINKING :1ST PRIZE" . MAN STANDS SAYS IT WAS ABOUT THE LOTTERY. KRESKIN SUGGESTS THE NUMBER "58". THE MAN SAYS THAT IS HIS FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY OCCURRING THIS WEEK. 01:07:55 - KRESKIN GOES ON TO GUESS PERTINENT INFORMATION ABOUT SEVERAL AUDIENCE MEMBERS, INCLUDING NAMES, BIRTHDAYS AND YEARS OF BIRTH. 01:08:49 - KRESKIN ASKS IF OCT 16 MEANT ANYTHING TO SOMEONE, WOMAN STANDS, SAYS IT IS HER SON'S BIRTHDAY. KRESKIN CORRECTLY GUESSES THAT THE SON WAS BORN IN 1961, GUESSES THE BOYS NAME AS "CHUCK" KRESKIN CORRECTLY GUESSES HER NAME AS MURIEL, HER BIRTHDAY AS JULY 6, 1924. 01:10:02 - COMMERCIAL BREAK. 01:10:09 - KRESKIN RETURNS - INTRODUCES HIS SPECIAL GUEST - TV STAR, MISS VIRGINIA GRAHAM. 01:10:46 - VIRGINIA GRAHAM SAYS, "IF I HAD A SON, I WOULD LIKE HIM TO BE JUST LIKE YOU, HE WOULD MAKE ALL MY BILLS DISAPPEAR" (KRESKIN)".VIRGINIA TELLS SEVERAL FUNNY JOKES, GETS AUDIENCE LAUGHTER. 01:11:21 - VIRGINIA SPEAKS OF ADDS IN NY NEWSPAPERS ASKING $500 TO TEACH A COMPLETE COURSE ON BEING A PSYCHIC. KRESKIN EXPLAINS WHY THIS IS SO MISLEADING. 01:12:42 - MORE FUNNY JOKES BY VIRGINIA. SHE SPEAKS OF HER GRANDCHILD HAVING THIS PSYCHIC TALENT.. ASKS KRESKIN HOW DO YOU RECOGNIZE IT? KRESKIN SAYS "DON'T DISCOURAGE IT, BUT NOT TO CONFUSE THEM". 01:13:25 - KRESKIN TELLS VIRGINIA, "THE MOST FRIGHTENING THING INJ SHOW BUSINESS IS STAGE MOTHERS". HE EXPLAINS. KRESKIN SAYS HIS GRANDMA WHO WAS POLISH AND DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH, ENCOURAGED HIM. HE TELLS INTERESTING STORIES ABOUT HIS YOUTH. 01:15:04 - KRESKIN SAYS "SO MANY PEOPLE IN SHOW BUSINESS WHO NO LONGER KNOWING HOW TO CARRY THEMSELVES, HAVE NO TROUBLE HANGING THEIR DIRTY WASH ON THE FRONT LINE, WHEN IT WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE HUNG ON THE BACK LINE". 01:15:30 - VIRGINIA TALKS ABOUT "SHARING THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE". TELLS OF THE BEAUTY OF LOVE. 01:16:19 - COMMERCIAL BREAK 01:16:22 - RETURN KRESKIN - VIRGINIA GRAHAM SEATED NEXT TO KREAKIN ON STAGE. KRESKIN INTRODUCES HIS OWN CAMERAMAN, NICK NEWMAN, WHO BUILT HIS OWN BOAT AND SAILED TO THE "BERMUDA TRIANGLE" IN 1968, TO JOIN THEM ON STAGE. 01:17:00 - NEWMAN LEAVES HIS CAMERA, WALKS ONTO STAGE TO APPLAUSE OF AUDIENCE. 01:17:35 - NEWMAN PROCEEDS IN TELLING HIS EXPERIENCE. CU ZOOM IN MODEL OF NEWMAN'S NEW SAILBOAT HE IS BUILDING, SITS ON TABLE BEFORE THEM. HE SHOWS PICTURE OF HIS OLD BOAT. 01:18:45 - NEWMAN PROCEEDS IN TELLING HIS HARROWING EXPERIENCE DURING STORM HE WAS CAUGHT IN AT THE TRIANGLE, WHICH LASTED 3 DAYS. HE TELLS OF STRANGE LIGHTNING STRIKES ALL AROUND THE BOAT. 01:20:10 - KRESKIN ASKS, "NICK, WOULD YOU DO IT AGAIN?" EMPHATIC "NO!: SAYS NICK. 01:21:41 - KRESKIN SPEAKS ABOUT THE EXPERIMENT HE DID EARLIER WITH AUDIENCE, RELATING TO FAIRYTALE NAMES WRITTEN ON EASEL. HE TELLS ALL IN AUDIENCE TO CLOSE THEIR EYES AS HE ASKED THEM WHO THEY PICKED. 01:22:03 - MOST IN AUDIENCE THOUGHT IT WAS "CINDERELLA: KRESKIN TAKES ENVELOPE OUT OF HIS JACKET, AND THE WORD "CINDERELLA" IS WRITTEN ON IT.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1976
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: SR-85
