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"THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN SHOW" STARTS - WALKS OUT TO STAGE. ZOOM AWAY FROM 1970S APPLAUDING AUDIENCE. (GREAT BRITAIN).
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01:00:46 46 |
NS- ZOOM AWAY KRESKIN TO STAGE WITH 8 STUDENTS SEATED ON CHAIRS FACING AUDIENCE (4 ON EACH SIDE OF HIM), AND A GROUP OF ABOUT 12 BOYS AND GIRLS SEATED ON FLOOR, FACING HIM, BACKS TO CAMERA.
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01:01:11 71 |
KRESKIN TOSSES A DECK OF CARDS TO GROUP ON EACH SIDE OF HIM, ANOTHER DECK TO GROUP SEATED ON FLOOR, AND STILL ANOTHER DECK TO STUDIO AUDIENCE. ASKS THEM TO OPEN AND SHUFFLE THE CARDS.
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01:02:05 125 |
CU KRESKIN SHUFFLING DECK OF CARDS, KRESKIN TAKES A CARD FROM THE SHUFFLED DECK, (7 OF SPADES), PLACES IT FACE DOWN ON FLOOR THEN ASKS A YOUNG MAN SEATED ON STAGE (HARRY) TO SIT ON THE CARD ON THE FLOOR.
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01:02:47 167 |
KRESKIN GOES TO OTHER SIDE OF STAGE, TAKES THAT SIDES DECK OF CARDS FROM YOUNG WOMAN. RE SHUFFLES THEM, HAS GIRL PULL OUT CARD FROM DECK, TELLS HER TO PUT IT IN HER POCKET.
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01:03:18 198 |
KRESKIN GOES TO GROUP SEATED ON FLOOR, HAS PERSON WITH THAT DECK (IAN) HAS HIM PICK A CARD FROM THAT DECK, NOT TO LOOK AT IT,, PLACE IY IN HIS (IAN'S) POCKET.
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01:03:51 231 |
KRESKIN GOES TO THE 2ND PERSON SEATED ON FLOOR FACING STAGE, DOES SAME ROUTINE WITH HIM.
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01:04:28 268 |
KRESKIN GOES INTO AUDIENCE, DOES SAME ROUTINE WITH WOMAN HAVING DECK OF CARDS THERE. HAS HER PUT THE CARD SHE PICKED INTO HER POCKET, WITHOUT LOOKING AT IT.
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01:05:05 305 |
KRESKIN SPEAKS OF MANS NEED FOR FELLOW MAN. AND ABOUT LOVE, HE SAYS THAT QUEEN OF HEARTS SIGNIFIES LOVE. HE THEN GOES ON TO HAVE EACH PERSON HIDING THEIR CARDS TO LOOK AT THEM. AMAZINGLY ALL BUT ONE HELD THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, THE OTHER HELD THE QUEEN OF CLUBS.MORE AMAZINGLY, HARRY 7 OF SPADES WHICH HE WAS SITTING ON, TURNS OUT TO BE QUEEN OF HEARTS.
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01:07:50 470 |
KRESKIN ENTERTAINS QUESTIONS FROM AUDIENCE. ONE ASKS IF HE (KRESKIN) FAS CLAIRVOYANCE .HE DESCRIBES CLAIRVOYANCE, THEN SAYS HE IS NOT A CLAIRVOYANT. HE SPEAKS OF "POWER OF SUGGESTION", SAYS HE TESTED VARIOUS AUDIENCE ON THE SUBJECT.
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01:09:38 578 |
HE ASKS MAN AND WOMAN SEATED ON FLOOR IN FRONT OF HIM WHO HE TESTED, ASKS THEM TO SHAKE HANDS. KRESKIN THEN ASKS THEN TO SEPARATE THEIR HANDS. HEY COULDN'T NO MATTER HOW HARD THEY TRIED. KRESKIN LEAVES THEM THAT WAY.
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01:10:06 606 |
KRESKIN GOES TO ANOTHER STUDIO MEMBER ON STAGE SHAKES HIS HAND, MAKES HIM UNABLE TO RISE FROM HIS CHAIR, NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIES.
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01:10:50 650 |
KRESKIN GOES INTO THE AUDIENCE AND DOES SAME THING TO A WOMAN, LEAVES HER TYHAT WAY, GOES BACK TO STAGE.
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01:11:23 683 |
BACK ON STAGE KRESKIN ASKS FOR QUESTIONS FROM AUDIENCE, HAND SHAKING COUPLE ASK HIM IF HE WILL UN STICK THEM. KRESKIN GOES TO THEM, TAPS THEM ON THEIR HEADS, AND THEY ARS ABLE TO LET GO. (POWER OF SUGGESTION).
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01:12:09 729 |
AUDIENCE MEMBER ASKS KRESKIN "IF SUPER-NATURAL POWER EXISTS ?? KRESKIN REPLIES..
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01:12:39 759 |
STATION BREAK.
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01:12:40 760 |
KRESKIN SHOW RETURNS - PROCEEDS IN UNLOCKING THE MAN ON STAGE AND WOMAN IN AUDIENCE WHO WERE STUCK TO THEIR CHAIRS BY POWER OF SUGGESTION FROM KRESKIN.
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01:13:18 798 |
KRESKIN RETURNS TWO MAN AND WOMAN WHO HE RELEASED FROM HANDSHAKE, ASKS THEM YO SHAKE HANDS AGAIN. AGAIN THEY CANNOT UN SHAKE HANDS..MORE AMAZING EXAMPLES OF POWER OF SUGGESTION BY KRESKIN..
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01:14:32 872 |
KRESKIN SPEAKS OF "SLIGHT OF HAND WITH PLAYING CARS"..
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01:14:54 894 |
MAN ASKS KRESKIN IF HE BELIEVES IN "SATANIC POWER?" HE GIVES LENGTHY REPLY. HE BELIEVE,S "THERE IS A DANGER IN SATANIC CULT....". KRESKIN ANSWERS MORE QUESTIONS.
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01:17:26 1046 |
STATION BREAK
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01:17:29 1049 |
KRESKIN RETURNS - - HE ASKS GOUP SEATED ON FLOOR AROUND HIM IF ANYONE KNEW WHAT "TELEKINESIS" MEANS? "MOVING OBJECTS BY THOUGHT POWER" SAYS MAN IN FRONT HIM. ALSO CALLED PSYCHOKINESIS.
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01:18:07 1087 |
KRESKIN SAYS RUSSIANS CLAIM TO MOVE OBJECTS WITH THEIR HANDS. SAYS WHEN YOU SEE THE FILMS ON IT, IT IS VERY SUSPECT, NOT CONVINCING..
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01:18:49 1129 |
KRESKIN BEGIND IN GIVING A DEMONSTRATION IN PSYCHOKINESIS. HE STRETCHES A SMALL RUG ON FLOOR IN CENTER OF GROUP SITTING THERE IN A CIRCLE.
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01:19:06 1146 |
KRESKIN ASKS GROUP TO TAKE DOLLAR BILLS, ROLL THEM UP AND GIVE THEM KRESKIN PLACES THEM ON THE RUG IN A CIRCLE, ASKS GROUP TO CONCENTRATE, THENTELL HIM IF THEY SEE ANY BILLS MOVE.
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01:20:18 1218 |
WHEN ONE MOVES, KRESKIN ASKS THEM TO YAKE THE REST OF THEM AWAY, LEAVING ONLY THAT ONE. TELLS THEM "CONCENTRATE ON THAT BILL MOVING. CU ZOOM IN ON BILL AS IT REALLY MOVES.". WILL IT TO MOVE, ASKS KRESKIN. CU BILL MOVING.
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01:21:21 1281 |
KRESKIN PLACED THE BILL NEAR WOMAN, ASKS HER TO TELL IT TO MOVE. SHE COUNTS TO 3,, IT MOVES. THE BILL SUDDENLY MOVES QUICKLY ACROSS THE RUG..
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01:22:30 1350 |
KRESKIN ASSURES HE DID NOT USE ANTONE OR THING TO DO THIS ANS SAYS BASICALLY, "THIS IS OT TELEKINESIS".
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Description: 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 1970–1980. 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
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