The Magic Pencil on Look and Read

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Sput
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Right Metropollers, this sounds like the sort of crap one of us usually knows and it's going to bug me for ages: How did they do the magic pencil so it looks like it floats? It doesn't look like it could be string, I can't see a hand and it's obviously doing some writing...

[You may wish to mute before starting this clip. It's maddening]
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I always thought it was probably sitting on top of a blue stick which got CSOed out.
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nidave
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"All the way round, down and around!, All the way round, down and around!, All the way round, down and around!"
Arghhhhhh!
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All the way round and up and down and flick! (not sure whether that would actually draw a letter lol).

Magic pencil must be one of the longest-standing children's learning aids ever - must've done well over 20 years now and still going.
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I love it, I might just be ripping the audio and turning it into a ringtone. I don't know how it's done, but it always fascinated me as a child.
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Sput
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It COULD be CSO and a stick, if the stick was parallel to the pencil...
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Dr Lobster* wrote:I love it, I might just be ripping the audio and turning it into a ringtone.
There are people in this world with annoying ringtones and there are others with VERY annoying ringtones!
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When you watch it on TV, you can sometimes see a gloved hand. It looks like the pencil has some sort of obscured handle that the gloved hand is using to write with the pencil.
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