RB's address in LA?

07 May 2007, 06:36 AM

chris a

RB's address in LA?

Does anyone have Ray Bradbury's address in Los Angeles? I would love to try and vist or request a visit while visiting....

I have been searching for the name of a TV movie that my siblings and I saw on TV in perhaps 1956, 1957, or 1958. It may have been on Playhouse 90 or Kraft Theatre. I have a suspicion it may have been an adaptation of "The Black Ferris" by Ray Bradbury. It was about a man who when he went on a merry-go-round a certain way - he would get younger with every complete circle. Then he did something wrong and the police were after him. He went on the merry-go-round to escape the police and change his appearance, but it went the other way. When the merry-go-round stopped, he was crouched under bench and was withered and old - because he was got older (sincve the merry-go-round went the other way round). Anyone have any idea about this movie?

07 May 2007, 09:33 AM

philnic

Hi, chris a, and welcome to the board. We don't give out Ray's home address here, but instead recommend that you write to him via his publisher.

There was a TV adaptation of "Black Ferris" in 1954 (in California), and shortly afterwards in 1956 (broadcast nationally). It was called "Merry-Go-Round", and was scripted by Mel Dinelli. It took the liberty of changing Bradbury's ferris wheel into a carousel - a change which Bradbury later adopted himself when he later developed "Black Ferris" into his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes.

There's a bit of information about this on my website (click on the link below, then follow links for Ray Bradbury Film and TV).

- Phil

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07 May 2007, 12:08 PM

fjp451

http://www.tv.com/the-ray-bradbury-theatre/show/3822/ep...on=0&tag=nav_bar;all

Also, RBT -1990 / #34 episode: click on the above for details (all 65 others from the Theater, included!)

08 May 2007, 06:40 PM

Doug Spaulding

Phil is right - this original Merry-Go-Round was featured on the TV show Sneak Preview (1956), and was adapted by the same fellow who scripted And So Died Riabouchinska, a 1956 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.