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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedVeteran TV producer makes learning fun. (Victoria Productions President Mark Stewart Waxman)
Broadcasting & Cable, September, 1996 by Littleton, Cynthia
Producer Mark Waxman uses the tools of television to speak to kids of the computer generation. An educational message may be the last thing kids are looking for on Saturday mornings, but Waxman found a way to make extracurricular learning fun with the strange inhabitants of Beakman's World, now beginning its fourth year on CBS.
This season, the veteran writer/director/ producer hopes to strike gold again with a new CBS Saturday morning series, Bailey Kipper's P.O.V. "TV producers have such an advantage over the classroom teacher," says Waxman. "We can expand upon the blackboard by using visual effects, graphics, animation, music and other sound effects to create a fantasy world that kids can relate to. It's a friendlier approach to learning for kids...
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