ZOOM, Series I; 328

Zoom number 328, WGBH-TV, Boston. Presentation of this program is made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations and a grant from the Ford Foundation. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom Everybody's doing it, everybody's moving it Everybody's having a ball, yeah So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom I'm Mike

My name's Rose I'm Hector I'm Donna I'm Timmy! My name's Sean. I'm Deany! Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Legend from you! We need you so won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund,

and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It's time to roll out the barrel. Okay, here's a barrel sent in by Michelle Tark of Brooklyn, New York. She writes, Dear Zoom, here's an idea that all of you can try. Everyone stand up and hold hands. Then everyone hold up your left foot. Then with your right foot on the floor, get down on your knee, right knee, and up again, still holding hands. It's very, very hard. Good luck. Say that again. To find out what's inside today. Hold up your left foot. Hold up your left foot. Yeah? The wrong foot, Hector. Then your right foot. Pick up your right foot. No, your right foot's on the floor. Bend down with your knees.

Oh, you can get up. Now you can get up. Hey, help! Holy fracture. Me. Can we switch names? It's a clean sweep. Sure. Me? Look at us. What's lady supposed to put up in here? The left. The left. Okay. Bless your head. Okay, everybody, get home again. Ready? It's working. I did it. I did it. Don't leave me down here. Hey, you didn't hold it. I done it. Oh, it did me. I didn't do it because you didn't keep holding hands. You're right, girl. Okay, I'll try again. One, two, three, go. Go! Now get up. Okay. One, two, three. Zoom phenomenon.

What's a zoom phenomenon? Hang on, you'll see. Okay. Okay, any of you guys got any pennies? Penny? Pennies. I'm desperate for a penny. I'm very desperate for. One penny, Danny. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to show you guys how to make these pennies cleaner by using some salt and some vinegar. And what you do is you take 1 1⁄4 cup of vinegar and you pour it into a bowl. That's 1 1⁄4 cup, huh? Yep. Then you take 2 teaspoons of salt and put them in the vinegar. 12 cents. Yeah, salt's high. Then guess what you do? What do you do? Put the pennies in. Knows how dirty that one is? That is the 1972 one. Okay, you remember that? Yes. Ready for the unveiling? Yeah, why don't you drink it?

Funny. Voila. What's good about that? Pretty, huh? But it's clear. Yeah, I guess it is. See? There's a 1972 one. And you can also do it if you have a key. And I just happen to have a key, and you just do the same thing. Put the key in. Turn it all up. Everybody's singing this. Pull it in. Yeah. It's my specialty. Oh, yes, vinegar. Oh, wow, you're terribly clean! Since I was little, I used to like to listen to folk records and stuff.

I mean, I like to strum the guitar with my mother and everything. And she said, do you want to take violin lessons? And I said, sure, fine. Then I started taking lessons and started performing a little bit in my teacher's recitals until he gave me this student concerto, the play, that I learned in a week. I was so excited about it. It's funny, that one little note sounds... I started playing with Ken Sarge when I was six. I had to think about it a while to see whether I was really serious about it or I was just playing around. And I said, yeah, I'm going to be a concert violinist. Okay. Sure. The worst thing for violinists is when the fingers get stuck. It's even worse than if a harpist gets caught in the strings. okay now now we have to make this piece a little more fantastic take the time

all right fine hold on now nikki because we're going to do it faster about try it that fast one this summer i performed two concerts in argentina and then when i came back i had all the the concert with the boss and pops already arranged it was my first experience playing with an orchestra all right now here here it has to be a little bit like on halloween when you go I have private lessons and also masterclasses with Mr. Totenberg once a month. The main reason that the masterclasses are good is because you get accustomed to performing.

And you get tips from Mr. Totenberg. He's a great teacher and he's a great concert violinist. Just sneaking in always a B instead of an A. You can learn from other students' strong points and also their weak points, and that can help you to improve your own playing can you can you lift it good

first of all let him finish really quite long it's an obligation for me to practice after school there are kids that call me up to make offers to go over their houses but I always have to infuse them. I'm committed to my instrument, so I might as well work hard at it if I want to make a career out of it. Thank you. ¶¶

Here's a little sent in by Terry Fields of Chicago, Illinois, and what did one hot dog say to the other hot dog? They taking you out tonight? No. Do you have a dog? Give up? No. Hi, Frank. Okay, here's a poem sent in by Carl Bleem of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. Rude. Rude is burping at the table or dumping orange juice on your guest's first sable. Rude is also talking out, squawking out, and last but not least, shouting out. Rude is pulling your sister's hair or dumping ice cubes in your brother's underwear. It's also taking food right off the platter, but you don't care, it doesn't matter.

There is much more to being rude, but all of that I can't include. That was nice. Okay, here is a letter, and she... And he writes in to say, Dear Zoom, I am what you would call a freehand artist. I just look at something and draw it. I sent you my two best pictures. One is called Peacock's Paradise. And it was sent in by Christopher Lohr of Rockville, Maryland. Oh, that's nice. It's good. Pretty colors. Here's a tongue twister sent in by Maria McRaven of Starkville, Mississippi. First I'll say it slow. Especially suspicious spaghetti. Okay. Especially suspicious spaghetti. Especially for... Especially... Especially suspicious spaghetti. Especially... Especially... Especially suspicious spaghetti. Especially suspicious spaghetti. Here's a riddle sent in by Pam Scott of Midfield, Alabama.

What do ghosts eat for breakfast? This is really good. Oh, oh, uh, blueberry. Going through my window. Oh, come on, this is really good. I give up. I give up. Ghost toasties and evaporated milk. Okay, here we go. I got a secret, mysterious type-like package. Everybody sing this. Open the package. And I just got to open it because I don't know what's in it. It's a good set for you. Dynamite! Oh, wow! Is that something or what? That was a nifty. It's plastic. That's nice. Do you eat? I've never seen so many roses. Now, would you let me buy it for you?

And they were sent in by Marty Eisenhower of Plymouth, Indiana. Thank you, Marty, and good night. Especially suspicious spaghetti. See how easy that was. Will somebody please send us a play? Yes! Not too long ago, Danny and I got a chance to go out and do something we've always wanted to do, learn how to ski. When you see people skiing, you know, jumping over things and stuff,

They make it look so easy. But when it's your first time like it was for Danny and me, let me tell you, it's not so easy. Even when you have a good teacher like we did, her name's Mary Ann Dunn, and her father runs the ski place where we went. You know, like when you've never been on skis before, you feel kind of awkward, so you don't know what you're doing. Turn this way. Turn around here. So when I started walking with them, they felt like they were hitched to the ground, the tips of the skis. You just take your pole and grip it like this. You kind of lean them towards, you know, up the hill like this. So when you're walking, you have something to grip like this. All right, well, don't go all the way up the hill. You've got to come slide. All right, you bend your knees right into the hill like that. Okay? And the edges have to stick into the snow like you make little steps to get up the hill. You have to bend your knees. Don't go too fast or you'll fall over. Take your time. Wait until Timmy gets over here.

How do you put your paws in the snow when you're going up the hill? You put one in front of you like this and then you move your ski. Then you move that one and then like this. Make sure you bend your knees into the hill. I had trouble learning that part because Every time I try that, I stop sliding down backwards. Well, bend them in. Okay, now turn around this way. Turn around the other side. Keep your poles in. Now try to do the snow plow. First thing you do with snow plow is you tip your feet in, like you turn your skis in so it catches the blade, and then you lean forward a little bit and turn your knees in, and it just slows you down. You've got to get going, first of all, and you bend your knees in, see like this? Keep your knees bent in. Now, wait, first of all. Hey, how do you get up?

Now, even if your skis are facing downhill, you always have your skis across the hill. Stick a pole in and use your hands here, you know, just to get yourself up. And just keep your skis in towards the hill like you were climbing, like that. Stick it in really hard. Even when she told me how to get up, I still couldn't get up. I felt like the legs were going on. I almost got a bit. Ah, you did it. See? Okay, Timmy, make sure you bend your knees. You have to bend your knees in, okay? I didn't really know if I wanted to learn how to ski or not. When I got up there, it wasn't so bad. It was fun. All you have to do not to break your leg or anything is to bend your knees. Keep your knees bent in. Keep your knees bent in. That's what holds the ski to the snow, okay? Go ahead, down now. That's good.

Well, after we learned the snow plow we learned this other sort of thing where when you're going down the hill and you want to go to the left, you have to lean to the right. You know, lean way down to the ground, all right? Just kind of go like that. Bend your knees like that. So I'm going down and I lean to the right and I kept on going to the right. What's the matter with it? Hey, Danny. I'll raise you down. Okay. You ready? Yeah. Let's go. By the end of the day, Danny and I weren't exactly what you'd call great skiers, but we sure had gotten better at climbing those hills. We'll be right back.

that was you fell right on the finish line did if that was if that was a rock if that was a ribbon i would have broke the ribbon though what ribbon you would have fallen right on top yeah if you break the rhythm you do one how does it do when you're falling down oh you don't do anything because The boots just like kill each other. You don't get hurt at all. When you fall down, can't you just put your hands, use your hands as a support on the ground just to get back up? It's not that easy when you fall like that.

When you fall down, the boots look to about here. So you're bending over the boots. It only showed a little while when I was getting up. But when I fell down, right, you know, I'm down there like this, and then I'm getting up, and I'm going like this. Then I get up, my skis spread apart, you know, and I felt like a pretzel. about how deep was the snow oh well we didn't measure it it wasn't deep it was like it was ball packed down the problem like we had was stopping the only the only way we had to stop turn was to either snowplow turn and turn around and smash into a fence or escape parallel or do a parallel that was pretty hard doing a parallel why don't you explain what you mean by snowplow turn, whatever that is. Oh, yeah. The snowplow turn. It's the same thing as snowplows. You know, I did the snowplow. You turn your keys in like that, and you go down like that, so the blades will catch it. But in the snowplow turn, if you want to turn to the left, you turn to the right. You lean to the right. If you want to lean to the right, you lean to the left. How old was the lady, anyway? Yeah. She was 9th grade, 14, 13.

That's it? She looked like she was in a 20s or something. Yeah. She was only 14. Did you get the stuff what your instructor said to you? like you know did you understand everything yeah everything but it's like easier because adults are so boring no you do this if you don't do it right do it you know but a kid says oh i'm trying to get all the time well i heard one guy he was telling he was talking about this kid he was going out there with two right ski boots on my dad walking out with two right ski boots on yeah look at your boots there better be two wrong ski boots Here's a letter sent in by Karen Grenstrom of Hanging Mass. And she writes, here's something that's fun to do. Divide up into pairs, and one person in each pair is a mirror, and the other one is the person looking into the mirror. The looker does movements, and the mirror tries to follow them.

It's lots of fun and harder than you think. Good luck. Timmy. Come on, Tim. I'll be the looker. All right, come on. Come on, dude. I'm the mirror. All right. All right. You... I'm going to see if I can do it. Yes, I'll... You're the looker man, too, I'm so... Okay. You look so strange. I'll fake you.

I'll fake you. Come on. Hey, three-way mirror. Make it four mirrors. Four mirrors. Those ones in the stores that one person looks in one of them and you can see a whole mess of them. Over here. I'm the guy, okay? This kid's swift. What are you doing, miss? Are you trying to fit on a suit or something? He's testing his new dance craze. One foot front, drag him back. Yeah!

Your butt in a zig, you're supposed to zag Your high is late, you tap your feet In rhythm with that ragtime beat You pack up your troubles in your own gift bag And dance all night to the salty dog bag A way down south did the old southern moon Possum up a tree and a house tree to come

And hit the top of the body to a broken down nest And go out and dance to the socks dog bag And tune up the fill and the rosin up the bowl Strike a chord on the old banjo They all hang on cause we ain't gonna drag Now here's the way I dance to the socks dog bag One foot front, drag it back Then you start to roll the jack Shake and break and then you sag If your partners dig, you're supposed to sag Your heart is light, you tap your feet In rhythm with that ragtime beat You back up your troubles and you hook it back And dance all night, do something all night One punch, one punch, drag it back Then you start to fall and dance Shake and break and then you say

If your partner's just a boss to dance Your heart is light, cause have your meaning It's all without fact, I think You can't drop your soul, then you won't get mad And it's alright, you're so slow, yeah Shake and break and then you say Shake and break and then you say If your partner's in just a bull Stay in hard and white Never meet a little bit I'll fill that bag in my face Back up your troubles with the old kid band Dance all night to the softball band Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Dance all night to the softball band I gotta go. Close the door, will ya? Hey, other door. Oh, yeah, don't forget to close the door. I gotta run. Close the door. Hey, remember the door, please. Don't forget to close the door.

D.I.E., close the door! We're gonna zoom, zoom, zooma zoom Come on and zoom, zooma, zooma zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why We're gonna teach you to fight, high Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Presentation of this program was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation

and by public television stations and a grant from the Ford Foundation.