TV HOUSE OF MAGIC (Nov, 1953)
TV HOUSE OF MAGIC
The TV camera often lies.
Magicians work props and special gadgets to fool their audience.
By H. W. Kellick
MISTER Peepers, a role played by bespectacled Wally Cox, was nonchalantly pecking away at his typewriter in his science schoolroom on NBC when suddenly there was an explosive noise and parts of the machine went flying all over the room. The “accident” drew hearty laughs from viewers and people wondered if this was one of Wally’s own tricks which he cooked up in his spare time. ‘ As a matter of fact, this gag was a gimmick concocted by a special-effects man who redesigned a standard typewriter and inserted a spring in the carriage which sent machine parts flying in the air on cue. Read the rest of this entry »




























