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Kid Magic
PRODUCED ON FILM FOR TELEVISION BY
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"Up to date Wizardry" is the keynote of the new television film series being produced by Harold Helvenston at Motion Picture Center. Naturally, we expect no less when an Art Director becomes a producer, but "Kid Magic" really proves the point. Story, characters, settings, technicians— it's all modern magic.
"Kid Magic" has been designed to get away from galactic worlds, space ships, and earth girls waiting for the arms of Saturn's Supermen.
By nature an adventure, it combines the pseudo-scientific with fantasy—Hans Christian Andersen with Science Fiction. It should supply a crying need in the children's television picture — something the kids will really like and their parents approve — for it is a series designed with appeal for fun-loving adults who are science-fantasy minded. Also the program teaches a bit of simple science and incorporates a moral here and there but most palatably.
The series is a writers'-designers' dream. From the story idea and gim
micks to the imaginative settings, this production has been a happy wedding of Producer Harold Helvenston's story sketches and Art Director Jerome Pycha, Jr.'s imaginative interpretations. The settings themselves have almost no precedent. Not all realistic— nor all modern—they are rather a perfect fusing of the ultra-modern and the familiar. Legerdermain and futuristic science combine to open weird caves and erect skyscrapers much taller than
Jerry Pycha, Jr., art director; Helvenston, producer, and Harry Redmond, special effects, test "The Brainamo."
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