First commercial break.
The first segments were a profile of Randi, with footage of some guy blowing phonebook pages, and the Korean "Human Magnet". Brief interview w. Randi.
Then, a profile of the challenger, with some taped demonstrations of his spirit communication powers -- basically the drawing-in-a-sealed envelope trick.
Challenger enters. Commercial break.
After the break, the taped demo is repeated several times with kanji instead of drawings. This was done 4 times, apparently; they gave him credit for matches with 三 and 月, but the other two were not. (the matches were iffy, in my opinion)
Return to the studio, where Randi explains how people generally tend to draw the same things in these demonstrations.
And now it begins...Randi hauls out 20 sealed envelopes. Inside of each envelope is a photo or drawing. Copies of all the pictures are on display above the rack holding the envelopes. Randi explains that five out of 20 correctly determined pictures is the desired result. The challenger looks a little nervous.
Michael picks an envelope...concentrates...looks behind him at the pictures on display, and writes RABBIT on the envelope.
etc...
cut to archival footage of various mentalists doing their thing.
and...second CM break.
The first segments were a profile of Randi, with footage of some guy blowing phonebook pages, and the Korean "Human Magnet". Brief interview w. Randi.
Then, a profile of the challenger, with some taped demonstrations of his spirit communication powers -- basically the drawing-in-a-sealed envelope trick.
Challenger enters. Commercial break.
After the break, the taped demo is repeated several times with kanji instead of drawings. This was done 4 times, apparently; they gave him credit for matches with 三 and 月, but the other two were not. (the matches were iffy, in my opinion)
Return to the studio, where Randi explains how people generally tend to draw the same things in these demonstrations.
And now it begins...Randi hauls out 20 sealed envelopes. Inside of each envelope is a photo or drawing. Copies of all the pictures are on display above the rack holding the envelopes. Randi explains that five out of 20 correctly determined pictures is the desired result. The challenger looks a little nervous.
Michael picks an envelope...concentrates...looks behind him at the pictures on display, and writes RABBIT on the envelope.
etc...
cut to archival footage of various mentalists doing their thing.
and...second CM break.
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