- Title: SR-88
- 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:01:00:02 - THE AMAZONG KRESKIN SHOW BEGINS. KRESKIN ON STAGE. CUT TO SHOTS APPLAUDING AUDIENCE 01:00:42 - KRESKIN ASKS YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BOY (BRUCE) WITH1970S LONG HAIR STYLE AND GIRL (THELMA) ON STAGE. ALL 3 SIT AT CARD TABLE ON STAGE. KRESKIN IMMEDIATELY STARTS WITH CARD TRICK. 01:00:46 - KRESKIN HAS EACH GUEST OPEN A DECK OF CARDS EACH DECK WITH CONTRASTING COLOR, WHICH THEY DO (BOY HAS DIFFICULTY). EACH SHUFFLES HIS, HER DECK. KRESKIN GIVES GIRL'S DECK A FEW SHUFFLE. 01:03:08 - KRESKIN GIVES BRUCE HIS DECK OF CARRDS AND TAKES BRUCE'S DECK, THUMBS THROUGH THEM, ASKS BRUCE TO DO SAME THING. KRESKIN GIVES BRUCE BACK HIS CARDS, ASKS HIM TO RESHUFFLE THEM. 01:03:41 - KRESKIN TAKES DECK, FANS IT OPEN LOOKS AT THEM, TELLS BRUCE ,HE (KRESKIN) WILL PICK A CARD AND PLACE IT AT TOP OF DECK. HE TELLS BRUCE TO LOOK AT HIS DECK AND DO THE SAME THING. 01:04:10 - KRESKIN ASKS BRUCE TO HOLD HIS DECK OF CARDS UNDER THE TABLE AND CUT THEM. KRESAKIN LAYS HIS SHUFFLED DECK IN FRONT OF BRUCE AND ASKS BRUCE TO PLACE HIS DECK ON TABLE IN FRONT OF KRESKIN. 01:04:20 - KRESKIN LAYD THE DECK HE IS HOLDING AND PLACES IT IN FRONT OF BRUCE AND HAS BRUCE PLACE THE DECK HE IS HOLDING IN FRONT OF KRESKIN. 01:04:37 - KRESKIN FANS HID S DECK OF CARDS, TAKES OUT HIS CARD AND PLACES IT ON THE TABLE, FACE DOWN. HE HAS BRUCE DO THE SAME THING. 01:05:02 - KRESKIN ASKS BRUCE "WHAT WAS YOUR CARD? "6 OF SPADES", SAYS BRUCE, AND TURNS IT OVER ON TABLE. KRESKIN TUERNS OVER HIS CARD AND IT IS ALSO THE 6 OF SPADES. AUDIENCE APPLAUSE. 01:05:28 - KRESKIN, THEN ASKS BRUCE TO TAKE 3/4 OF HIS DECK AND PLACE IT DOWN ON TABLE. HE HAS BRUCE COUNT OUT THE REMAINING CARDS, PLACVE THEM CROSSWAYS ON REST OF DECK KRESKIN DOES SAME WITH HIS DECK. 01:06:19 - KRESKIN TURNS OVER THE TOP CAED ON BRUCE'S PILE AND THEN DOES SAME WITH HIS DECK, AMAZINGLY BOTH CARDS ARE THE 5 OF HEARTS. 01:06:56 - KRESKIN UNCOVERS THE TOP CARD OF HIS AND BRUCE'S OTHER HALF DECK AND BOTH CARDS ARE 2 OF CLUBS./ 01:07:10 - COMMERCIAL BREAK 01:07:16 - KRESKIN RETURNS - SEATED ON BENCH ON STAGE, ASKS QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE. 01:07:32 - YOUNG MAN RAISES HAND, ASKS KRESKIN IF HE BELIEVED IN HYPNOTISM? KRESKIN SAYS IN SO MANY WORDS, "ALL SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE SAYS ..... "NO". 01:08:48 - KRESKIN ADDS, :THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO WITH A PERSON HYPNOTIZED, THAT YOU CAN DO WITHOUT HYPNOTIZING HIM".. 01:09:04 - ANOTHER PERSON IN AUDIENCE ASKS, "HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW JOHNNY CARSON?". KRESKIN SAYS HE HAS DONE 28 SHOWS WITH CARSON. KRESKIN SAYS HE DOESN'T KNOW HIM PERSONALLY, ONLY PROFESSIONALLY. ABOUT CARSON, "ANYONE WITH 11 YEARS ON TELEVISION HAS TO BE THE BEST". 01:09:42 - ANOTHER MAN ASKS KRESKIN'S "POWER OF SUGGESTION WITH ANIMALS?" KRESKIN SAYS "NO", SPEAKS OF PAVLOV "CONDITIONED REFLEX" WITH ANIMALS 01:10:23 - MAN ASKS "HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FRO PRE AGE REGRESSION UNDER HYPNOSIS?". KRESKIN SAYS IF YOU GIVE A PERSON WHO WAS TAKEN BACK (UBDER HYPNOSIS) AND YOU GIVE HIM A MATURITY TEST, THEY ARE AS MATURE AS THEY WERE BEFORE HYPNOSIS". 01:11:10 - KRESKIN SAYS "THEY ARE NOT REALLY REGRESSING BACK. HE SPEAKS OF "BRIDEY MURPHY" HE SAYS HE SPOKE TO SOMEONE WHO SAIS HE WAS SELLING LEATHER TO INDIANS 1500 YEARS AGO......"BUT I THINK IT WAS NOTHING BUT THEIR IMAGINATION"..".THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE EVIDENCE OF PRENATAL REGRESSION". 01:11:42 - KRESKIN SAYS AFTER COMMERCIAL HE WILL SHOW HOW WITHOUT HYPNOSIS, WE CAN PRODUCE RESPONSE TO SUGGESTION". 01:11:47 - COMMERCIAL BREAK. 01:11:55 - RETURN KRESKIN, WHO HAS GROUPS OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN ON STAGE, SEATED ON CHAIRS. KRESKIN SAYS HE GAVE THE STUDENTS A KEY WORD TO RESPOND TO SUGGESTION. 01:12:40 - KRESKEN ASKS GUESTS TO LOOK AT THEIR RIGHT HAND AND THINK THEIR KEY WORD. YOU WILL FIND TEMPORARILY A REMARKABLE PHENOMENON TAKING PLACE. 01:13:06 - SHOT WITH GUEST SITTING ON CHAIRS, EYES WATCHING THEIR HANDS ON LAPS. AS KRESDKIN REPEATS FOR THEM TO THINK THE KEY WORDS. MALE GUEST SAYS HIS HAND IS MOVING. CU HAND MOVING OFF LAP. EACH GUEST SAYS SAME IS HAPPENING TO THEM. 01:13:58 - EACH GUEAT SAY THEIR HAND IS RISING SPONTANEOUSLY, WITHOUT THEIR HELP.HE THEN ASKS ALL TO EXTEND THEIR HANDS, THINK THE KEY WORD, . KRESKIN THEN SUGGESTS THAT THEIR HANDS BECOME LOCKED LIKE A BAR OF STEEL 01:14:53 - KRESKIN ASKS BOY WHOSE ARM IS LOCKED TO TO OPEN HIS MOUTH WIDE. THE BOY DOES, AND HIS JAW BECOMES LOCKED ALSO. HE DOES IT TO ANOTHER BOY.. KRESKIN HAS SOME OF GUESTS FORGET THEIR NAME WHEN HE SNAPS HIS FINGERS. 01:15:36 - KRESKIN ASKS LAD SEVERAL QUESTIONS WHICH HE ANSWERS, BUT BECOMES DUMB FOUNDED WHEN KRESKIN ASKS HIS NAME. DOES SAME WITH OTHERS. 01:16:08 - KRESKIN THEN GOES AROUND AND RELEASES EVERYONE FROM HOLDING THEIR ARMS OUTSTRETCHED. BUT DOES NOT RELEASE THOSE WITH THEIR MOUTHS LOCKED OPEN OR THOSE WHO FORGOT THEIR NAMES. 01:16:48 - COMMERCIAL BREAK 01:16:51 - KRESKIN SHOW RETURNS. WITH SIMPLE SNAP OF FINGER, KRESKIN RELEASES A BOY WITH MOUTH OPEN AND ANOTHER WHO FORGOT HIS NAME 01:17:49 - KRESKIN HAS ALL TO CLOSE THEIR EYES. HE SUGGESTS THEY CANNOT OPEN THEIR EYES. HE ASKS THEM TO TRY REAL HARD TO OPEN EYES AND THEY CANNOT. 01:18:19 - KRESKIN TELLS THEM, AS YOU BECOME LESS RESPONSIVE TO SUGGESTION, YOU BECOME LESS INHIBITIVE. KRESKIN TELLS THEM, "WHEN HE COUNTS TO THREE, THEY WILL SHOW THE HAPPIEST EXPRESSION THEY CAN". 01:18:46 - ALL THE YOUNG GUESTS WAKE UP SMILING AND LAUGHING AS KRESKIN SUGGESTED. AS THEY ARE ALL LAUGHING, KRESKIN SUDDENLY SAYS, "RELAX" ALL STOP SUFFENLY AND RELAX AS SUGGESTED.. 01:18:56 - KRESKIN SUGGESTS WHEN HE COUNTS TO 3 THEY WILL SHOW ANGER. HE COUNTS TO 3 AND ALL SHOW SUDDEN ANGER, HE THEN ASKS THEM TO SHOW SADNESS AND THEY DO, ALL BY POWER OF SUGGESTION. 01:19:29 - KRESKIN HAS THEM SHOW EXTACY . CU AND THEY DO. HE THEN ASKS THEM TO SHOW WILDEST FACE THEY CAN. CU MONTAGE WILD FACES.. 01:20:15 - KRESKIN THEN ASKS THEM TO RELAX, CLOSE THEIR EYES AND WHENEVER I SAY, "THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN" THE MEN WILL SHOUT EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE MEN WILL STAND AND IMITATING FLIP WILSON IMITATING GERALDINE, SHOUT "THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT!" 01:21:12 - KRESKIN SAYS "THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN" THE GIRLS STAND ANS SCREAM EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! SEVERAL SEONDS LATER THE MEN RISE AND IMITATE FLIP WILSON IMITATE GERALDINE AND SHOUT "THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT". 01:21:27 - CUT TO APPLAUDING AUDIENCE. KRESAKIN THEN CLOSES BY SAYING "BY THE WAY, THE NAME OF THE SHOW IS, "THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKUN" ALL PANDEMONIUM BREAKS LOOSE..
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1976
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: SR-88
