ZOOM, Series I; 411

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Everybody's doing it, everybody's doing it Everybody's having a ball in the air So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom I'm Pover I'm Tishy I'm Red I'm Kate I'm Norman I'm Tracy I'm Tommy I'm Carmen I'm David I'm Andre Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. So won't you zoom, zoom, zooma, zoom. Come on and zooma, zooma, zooma, zoom. Come on, give it a try. We're gonna show you just why. We're gonna teach you to fly, fly. Come on and zooma. This program is funded by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and by public television stations, the Ford Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

David, why does the traffic signal turn red? Listen, you'd turn red, too, if you had a change for all those people. Hey Tommy, guess what? I got a zoom phenomenon for you It's called salt pendulum What you do is you take a piece of construction paper and make it into a cone shape and at the end of the cone there should be a little hole and at the top of the cone you tie three pieces of string from those three strings you tie a nice long one and from that long string you tie another long string and tape it up in the corners of the doorway. Then you have a piece of black paper. Here, hold the bottom of the glass. Okay. And what you do is you pour the salt in. And you swing it slightly. And it'll make a design.

And now it looks like a Zeppelin. And now it looks like a basketball. Now it looks like a football. Now it looks like a watermelon. Now it looks like a banana. Now it looks like a hot dog. Now it looks like a football. Oh, it made a perfect football, and then it cut right across. And if you want to make... Tommy, if you want to make different shapes, all you have to do is adjust the top string. Oh. Get this out. Okay, I'll pour it in. Okay. Yeah. Good. Okay. Let her rip. Oh, wow. Wow. That's neat. That's going fast. Looks like a spear or a... Oh, a long pickle or something. Yeah. Whoa. It's going the other way now. Hey, now it's going... Oh, it's probably going to... It's cutting across. And that's how you make it. Why don't you try it at home? We're gonna roll out the barrel

And to find out what's inside too late Here's a Zoom barrel sent in by Ron Lorman of Bloomfield, New Jersey Take a potato in one of your hands and a fork in the other Now toss a potato up in the air about three feet And try to catch it on the fork It may sound simple, but it takes practice Good luck you got a potato and a fork i'm moving on oh good i'll take the big one i can give it come on just i'm gonna give you the four don't take it he did it you have to do it feet three feet in here I know I'm the best boys and girls I haven't missed yet except for the first try I'm the only one with one left catch it you're a terrible catch yeah I got another one right here now

watch this. One, one. It slipped. Tracy, why do golfers wear two pairs of pants? Well, in case they get a hole in one. This is my sister, Toni, and she's going to show you outdoor hairstyle called cornrowing. Where did cornrowing first start? Well, it started in Africa, in the bush countries. Why did they wear cornrows? To let their scalp breathe and to help it grow because so, because they had to wear their hair very short then. Oh. Is that the reason why we wear cornrows now? Yes. You can top off cornwalls with beads or initials or anything like that. It's very popular now.

Most women and children wear it today. I seen a man one day. He had cornwalls. I know. And boys. Do they do it somewhere when it's circular with initials in the middle on the top? Well, it's the same way, but there's different angles you're supposed to cornwall. And there's two ways. there's overhand and underhand I like overhand because my hand doesn't get tired and I feel more relaxed but there's one thing about cornrow you have to find out you have to be patient with it because if you do it wrong once you have to do it again and that's all there's to it you just watch the fingers go in and out and over and everything and that's how cornrow is learned very easy. My name is Mary Ann Gilman and I live in Chester Depot, Vermont.

Two years ago I started running a steam engine. as soon as i saw the steam engine i really really thought it was neat and i finally got up my courage and asked the engineer for a ride and said yeah and that's the way it all started andy's the engineer of steam town first time i actually drove it it was really scary and i wouldn't let andy out of my sight but he comforted me and you know said nothing to be afraid of and after a couple weeks I was okay. When I'm behind the wheel it feels like I have a big responsibility. Every time I drive around steep corners I get a tingly feeling because I'm afraid that that iron monster is on a tip and I'm just so small I get petrified Harold is the fireman it's

Harold's job to get plenty of coal into the fire and it's my job to have plenty of water in the boiler so together we see to it that we got plenty of steam Steam Town is a museum and a train all rolled into one. We take a train out for the tourists. The first thing we do when we get into Bells Falls, we get the train ready for the passenger trip. All right, now put some on your piston. It's not full yet. There we go. All right, you'll close your cover up on your cup. Yep.

All right. All righty. I'll hurl up a little bit on the draw head here. Andy is the best teacher that I've ever had, even though it's not in school. Andy, he and I just get along really well, and he treats me like I'm his daughter and I treat him like he's my grandfather. Don't forget now, you gotta go fast because we're late. We're gonna make this time up. No, no. Yes, we are. No. Now, I'm running this thing and you do as you get told. No. What do you mean, no? No. You scared me the last time and you slipped coming over the gorge. Wait. You slipped coming over the gorge once, twice, then you slipped coming over the gorge. Well, you've got to realize that the rails was bad, it was raining, there's leaves around there. I couldn't help that. Right, but if you hadn't been going so fast, I know it was a photo run by, but speed is important. You don't have to go fast, this is a 35 mile an hour, and that is all I'd like to go.

All right, if you feel that way, you're going to stay with me, I'll do as you tell me. On board! All right, Marianne, we want you to get out of town. The water was dripping on the rail, that's what did it. Give it a little more. Leave it standing right on until we get out of here. Sometimes it's my day off and I go through the cars instead of riding in the engine with Andy. How fast does this train go? Oh, about 30, 35 months now. Do you earn any money on doing this? Well, I usually get lunch free and things like that.

Do you ever get bored just driving this back and forth all the time? You know, there are a lot of things that are unexpected and real exciting. It's sort of like my track and my engine on this track. Feels like I could do anything, you know, drive spikes and shovel coal, and nothing could happen. Stop with the weather this morning, right here. Okay, stop. When I grow up, I want to be an engineer, and I'm sort of a women's ribber, and I'm trying to make the first lady engineer in New England. Brakes tied back? Yeah. All righty for you. Okay. Well, tomorrow I won't be so hard on you. Yeah, you went pretty fast, and I don't like that. Okay, tomorrow we'll go a little slower. Yeah. I'll do that. And I said to myself, you are a dream to perform like you do. You're great.

I'm going to see that you are the first lady engineer for Steamtown someday. See you tomorrow. Happy dreams. Happy dreams. It really takes a long time to get your whole head done. But this is what she's done so far. And you can do any design you want in the back because it's really fun. but it does take a long time and it's a lot of patience you have to comb it out and make sure the hair doesn't get between your fingers or messed up anywhere whatever happened to the girl who ate gunpowder well her hair grew out in bangs Oh, good. We get to see our friends at the old Zoom-in again. Santa Claus. Santa Claus.

Hey, that's not bad. I'll have to try it out on somebody. Ho, ho, ho. And here comes Bonnie. Hiya, Mr. Williams. Hi, Bonnie. Have I got a story for you? Another one? This one's good. See, a guy's riding on a bus, and he keeps yelling out, I'm Santa Claus. I'm Santa Claus. Santa Claus? Santa Claus. So the driver says, will you please keep quiet? But the guy keeps yelling out, I'm Santa Claus. I'm Santa Claus. Finally, the driver gets really mad. He steps on the brakes and stops the bus. Then he yells, North Pole, and throws the guy off the bus. What's the matter? Don't you get it? Yep, I got it. See, the guy kept yelling out, I'm Santa Claus, so... Why don't you just forget it, Mr. Williams? Anyways, I've got a little something for you. Here, a brand-new pair of used roller skates.

I found them at the rink, but nobody else wanted them. Thanks, Barney. Well, it's, you know, just what I've always wanted. Oh, if you're worried about not knowing how to roller skate, I'll teach you. Sure, Barney, sure. Say, here's one I bet you haven't heard. What did George Washington say to his men before crossing the Delaware? I don't know. What? He said, get in the boat! I'll put the skates on and let's get with it. Quick! Hide it! The cops are coming! Hide it! Please! Hide it! I don't want it! I don't want it. Hey, wait a minute, Maxie. The police cars didn't stop. What are you so worried about? Phew. I didn't think they were after me.

But you never can be too sure. Hey, what's in the bag? My laundry. I was just bringing it home. Then why were you running from the police? Well, you see, it's a habit of mine. I'm always afraid of getting caught. I guess. Man, that's a crazy habit. Relax, Maxie. You're home now. That's right. back in my favorite spot, the good old Zoom Inn. If this is your favorite spot, do you know what Dracula's favorite spot is? Huh? The Vampire State Building. Don't you get it? The Vampire State Building? Yeah, sure, Miss Williams. I gotta go sort out my laundry. I'll see you. See you, Mr. Williams. Hey, wait a minute. Did you guys hear the one above? Can Blockbuster Bonnie teach Mr. Williams to stay in his feet? Is Maxie really going to sort his laundry? Or will he just throw it into the drawer?

Tune in for the next terrific episode of As the World Zooms. Here's what Cornwall looks like when it's finally finished. I think I'm going to do this one over. No. Shucks. Would you like to learn how to do cornrowing? We have a Zoom card that shows you how to do it. Just write something. Double-O-N, drop three-five-oh. Boston, that's those who want me home. And be sure to include a saisy. Otherwise, we won't be able to send you the Zoom card. A few days ago, there was a fire in my house, and it was scary because, like, everything happened so quick. A lot of firemen came, and actually about ten fire engines came, and two police cars, and two fire chiefs. What was it like? Were you scared or something?

I mean, I was scared because, I mean, it happened before the same place, but I was scared because, like, it was, flames were coming out of the window and the firemen were breaking glass and, you know, the sirens. Did anything of yours get burnt or anything of yours got burnt? No, it just, a lot of stuff got wet. You didn't have to jump or anything through a window? No. Our windows on the, we live on, yeah, our house is on the street, but we live on, like, our windows and stuff are on the side, on the other side street. So, like, if we would have had to jump out, it would have been, like, the people wouldn't have seen us because people were in the front, you know, the crowd was in the front. But it was scary because there was a lot of smoke, and I was barefooted, and I had my pajamas on. Yeah, it was Sunday night. I was watching TV, and then my brother was sitting up in the window. He goes, here comes engine so-and-so, and so-and-so. And then my mother goes, well, why don't we go see where it is? Because the fireman stopped right on the corner of our house. And then we all realized that it was at our house.

I mean, everything happened so quick, and then we had to run out of the house, and then we had to stand out there in the freezing cold with our pajamas and bare feet, and then the glass was coming down from, like, this happened at the top floor, so all the glass was coming down, and it went . Where did you live after that? We stayed, I stayed at some friend's house, and my mother stayed with my sister. and then I went over sometimes, like, I went straight from my friend's house, too. If I had a fire in my house, I'd grab my guinea pig. The last time there was a fire in there, my mother has false teeth, right, and she forgot them, so she made the firemen go back up and get them for her. Teresa Zembron of Morton Grove, Illinois, writes, Dear Zoom, here's a poem about your show. If you're bored, don't be ignored. Go up to your room and write to Zoom.

Write a riddle or something with a middle. Write Zoom box 350 if you watch the very best show. My family is my sister, Amy, and my mother is my brother, Michael, and myself. Getting tired? Is that good enough? that must be about right my mother got divorced five years ago is that the right way i'm the only older male person in the house the chores that my father might do usually done by myself or my mother yeah they're good in time ah maybe they're not do just a little more makes me feel kind of good that i'm helping around the house if there's something that i can fix then then of course you'd let me do it maybe just

as tight as you can get it maybe just gets loose how's that oh that seems really are you ready oh beautiful okay okay my father lives two hours away and he lives down in cape cod before my parents got divorced i got along my brother my sister and my father and it didn't seem like my mother and my father were frightening i guess because they you know might have kept it or something like that. And then one day, my mother told us they weren't getting along, and she said that my father's gonna go down to the Cape. Now I see my father on long weekends, school vacations, and during the summer. Come on, let's get some sand on those brushes, Amy. Come on, here we go. Get that water, we'll get the water line right here first. Come on. Yeah, but you're spraying me! Well, I'm spraying. If you're working, I'll spray you off. That's it. Okay. There, that's good. We get that good and clean now.

Yeah, that's it. Here we go. Come on, don't get your sister wet now. Don't get Michael wet, either. You're going to get us all wet. Oh, it's good having you help me now. At first, it seemed kind of strange that my father wasn't around. Like, something was missing all the time. But since then, I've been, you know, talking with my mother and my father, and they've, like, said things that have made sense, and so I kind of pieced everything together. That's coming off good. How's your week been? Okay. We played football, and I got the gym teacher twice. My father can be a very good friend to you, and if you don't have that very good friend, it can make you feel not that great. I wish my father was around so I could talk to him, But when I go down to see him, I try to talk to him. I'm not at football. I don't like football that much, but I'm going to be on the soccer team and the gymnastics thing. Yeah, let's give Sam a hand here.

Hey, go out and get the... Lunch, great. I'm great. My father remarried about a year and a half after my mother and my father got divorced. My father's new wife is Sally. Olive ham and some pickles, some of those homemade ones. You want to go out and get some co-ogs? I like to go out in the boat in the whaler. Fine, go ahead. Can I come? It kind of confused me for a while that my father's getting married again, but we're all part of the family when we go down there. And so we can adjust okay now going back and forth. Hey, do you want to go for a bike ride after lunch? Yes. Okay. Could I have the tuna, too, when you're done, Lee? Oh, yeah. What are we going to do for Thanksgiving? Well, your dad said something about you going down to the cake, didn't he? Yeah.

You know what I would appreciate? I would love to have some more things like this. You know, some more... Remember your big bouquets of stuff you got me? Without the goldenrod, please, this time. It would be beautiful. Since my mother and my father got divorced, I think I became more open about things. When someone has a problem, we usually try to figure it out through the family. You can hit me a thousand times, just like you do me. Mommy! Here, I'll take you a glass of water. No! Come on, Dwight. Come on, Amy. No! You can be the first one to be buried. Hey, Amy. No! That's a good luck charm. Give it to Amy. It's called Golden Slipless Floribunda, all right? Now, put it in your pocket, and that means no longer get clobbered. Come on. That means if you get... Every time I'm about to get you, I can't. Listen, you're fine, okay? Let go of me. Let go of me.

Help me, y'all. Save me. Save me, Mrs. Stark. Save me, y'all. When my mother and my father got divorced, it affected not only me, but my whole family. Sometimes I think about what it might be like if my parents weren't divorced. I don't really wish they were back together, and I don't wish they were apart. This is just how it's been. And so I kind of think this is the way it should be and it shouldn't really be changed Thank you.

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Because you gotta have friends, la la la la la la la, friends, la la la la la, friends, I'm talking about friends, oh that's right, friends, la la la la la, la la la la, Come on, give it a try, we're gonna show you just why, we're gonna teach you to fly, fly, come on and do, come on and do.

this program was funded by grants from mcdonald's corporation and mcdonald's restaurants fund and by public television stations the ford foundation and the corporation for public Broadcasting. Presentation of Zoom was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation.