‘Winky Dink’…World’s First Interactive Media
On August 24, 2013
- Archives, TV History
For those of us that remember watching (1953-57), ‘Winky Dink’ was a Saturday morning show that we all loved. Host Jack Barry would draw on a glass plate and at home, we could draw the same picture on the screen with our “Magic Window”. At about the 2 minute mark, you’ll get to see the kit many of us had at home to draw along. A sheet of clingy plastic and crayons.
Too poor–used Saran Wrap!
drew on my folks TV without the plastic sheet 🙂
Amazingly, I still have my “Winky Dink” boxed kit!
I sure did have my Winky Dink kit.
A few years later Jack Berry would be at the center of the Quiz show scandal with the show 21.
More than a few of us used crayons right on the screen without the “magic window.” I hope the statute of limitations has expired for this transgression…
I remember seeing this and the fun of “interacting”…