According to my calendar, today is Imbolc that is celebrated by Pagans and Wiccans. I know that there is some sorta music video that does exist from 1979 for The Cars’ song Dangerous Type. All I can find are live performances. I could use the cover version that Letters To Cleo did for the movie The Craft (1996). I don’t want to. Especially not when there is this one called Magic, where Ric Ocasek walks on water. I’ve been itching to spotlight this music video.

I kind of wanna just say to simply sit back and enjoy, but there are a couple of things to point out:

1. This is the obvious one. The song is about a relationship that makes you feel like you can walk on water, so they literally made it seem that Ocasek was walking on water. That’s at least what Songfacts tells me. It makes sense to me.
2. To create the illusion of walking on water, they built a little platform for him to stand on in the pool that you can see in several shots. The platform collapsed the first time, and they had to adjust it to take his weight.
3. This is best one. It was filmed at Paris Hilton’s family estate when she was little. I believe she would have been 2 or 3 at the time. She’s not in the video. According to Wikipedia, Kathy Hilton rented the band her house for the music video. The house would also be used a few years later for the movie Blind Date (1987).

I know one of the people is Uncle Sam and another is probably Jesus, but if you have a guess as to who the guy with the eyepatch is, then let me know. I would have thought Patch, of Patch Kayla from Days Of Our Lives. Unfortunately, their characters wouldn’t become a thing till 1986.

The video was produced by Beth Broday. She seems to have done about 20 music videos. A notable one being True Colors for Cyndi Lauper.

With that out of the way, sit back and enjoy!