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Show Smedley Ballad7 Tells Evils' of c igarettes le Ballad of Smedley the ' an animated story tell-i tell-i ol the disadvantages of is soon to be produced HOED. ;y the Smoker" is the - f a proposed film submit-'i'KUED submit-'i'KUED in response to an by the Educational Televi-em Televi-em (ETS) in Indiana, t received a grant from Health Service to pro-; pro-; a television show on the i smoking. It selected Aninary proposals from "t the country "and :ach studio a grant of M these 20 proposals d the top three, and may award up to $9,000 for a show. Evils of Smoking The story, written by Patricia Madsen, is about a high school boy who tries to make an impression im-pression on a popular girl by smoking. He tries out for the high school track team, but can't make the team . because he isn't in good enough condition. condi-tion. In the end, Smedley discovers dis-covers that the girl doesn't like people who smoke anyhow. Max Fortie, production manager mana-ger for KUED, says that the setting set-ting for the shew will be either Skyline or Highland High School. A rock and roll combo will narrate nar-rate the story, in the same method meth-od as the narration of the movie "Cat Ballou." No production dates have been set. |