ZOOM, Series I; 415

Transcription by CastingWords Everybody's groovin' it. Everybody's havin' a ball and dance. So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. I'm Poppy. 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? 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. Here's a letter sent in by Lynn Oshett of New York City.

That sound could only mean that this is the 1,500,000th letter sent to Zoom. Hey, Dave, we got so excited in our celebration that you forgot to read the letter. Oh, yeah. Lynn says, Dear Zoom, here's a game called Cotton Ring.

To play the game, you need a ball of cotton and two straws that I've included. Two people can play. Place the cotton ball between you. If you blow the cotton on one person's side, he wins. If the other person blows it on your side, she wins. Okay, I understand. I don't know. Let's try. Where's my straw? Look at this. Stamp. Okay. All right. Here's the straw. Now what do I do? All right. It starts here. Right? Oh. Right. This will be one line. This will be the other line. All right. I have to get this cotton ball past your line. Okay. All right. Yeah. Goal. And you have to get it past here. All right? Okay. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait a second. Hey, wait. Yeah. Just a little. Just a little. All right, ready? Go. Do you know where she got their haircuts?

Gee, I don't know. The Baba Shop. I don't want to go to school today. The teachers don't like me. The kids don't like me. The superintendent wants to transfer me. The bus drivers don't like me. The school board wants me to drop out. Even the custodians have it in for me. I don't want to go to school. But you have to go to school. You're healthy and you have a lot to learn. Sure. You have something to offer others. You're a leader, son. And besides, you're 45 years old and you're the principal. Eh, can't help it. Stop crying. And now it's time for your favorite quiz show, and we will see which contestant will win the $20,000 bonus. Okay, folks, are you ready?

Yeah. Get your fingers on the markers, don't worry. The first question is, what can travel all the way around the world and still stay in one corner? Yes? A post-it stamp. You're absolutely right. You get a $20,000 bonus. All right, the next question goes to Tisha here. Why? Because you got it right. All right, then. What question can never be answered by yes? Yes? Are you asleep? You're absolutely right. All right, don't fight. Come on, come in. All right, the next question goes to both of them. How do you make a hippopotamus float? How? You take some root beer, some ice cream, and a hippopotamus. You're absolutely right. Oh, my gosh. Ready? Why do witches ride on brooms? Yes? I got it for us.

Because the bathrooms are too heavy. Scorch. Right, right, right, right, right. $50,000 bonus. $50,000 to $40,000. What can you hold without touching it? What? Your breath. You're right! All right. If Batman and Robin got run over by a steamroller, what would they call them? Flatman! And? Flabbin! Flabbin! Flabbin! Flatman and flobbin! No! Flatman and ribbon! All right, this is the end of your quiz show of the day. See you next week! What's green lives in the jungle and goes clump, clump, clump, clump? I couldn't imagine. A grasshopper trying out his new combat boots. Everybody's like jazz. Old people, young people, babies. Louis Armstrong liked it.

My brother. New Orleans is the home of jazz. All right, come on, man. Beat the way you want to be. I'm going to beat the way I want to go in. Other music goes on style. Jazz never goes on style. My friend and I belongs to Fairview Baptist Church Band. Jazz is something hard to learn by yourself, so we all help each other out. Who really works hard at it because we feel we're going to be famous musicians one day.

to learn jazz you got to be around someone who knows what they're doing b-roy drums is a musician and he lives near me and sometimes he works with me on the drums you're right there you know it's when you go boom boom boom boom you stop yeah you stop let it go so you gotta keep on hitting it to here through the whole thing just keep on going yeah through the whole thing you gotta keep keep hitting it don't worry about it because you're beating on the off beat anyway so beating on the cymbal as you beat with the bass there's something really nice about our neighborhood because the old people like to help the young people with the music.

Leroy helped to start the band six years ago. Now Leroy got his own man. Sometime they'll play with us when we was doing a parade. There's a real tradition of jazz here in New Orleans, but then what we all like to do most is go out and parade. When you're playing in a parade, you feel really good, because everything just go right, provided I'll be fighting or nothing. Once we went to Washington, D.C., and we paraded there, and the people didn't even much know

what it was. But here in New Orleans, everybody know what jazz is. As soon as they hear the music, they come out laughing and dancing, feeling good. It makes you feel like you're everything. You know, you got everything. Everybody likes you. You're even your worst When we first paraded, it was about 1971. The sun was shining bright, no clouds was around, the streets was clean, no paper nothing, no mud hose was walking, blowing our horns and stuff, beating the drums, feeling good. I think jazz makes people feel happy. When they see jazz, they come running outside.

It'll be a joyful day when they see jazz. People, little children, just marching up and down the street, blowing their instruments, beating their instruments. They just think it's a happy day. Thank you. Did you hear about the mad scientist who crossed a centipede with a parrot? No, what happened?

He got a walkie-talkie. Doom, doom, doom, do-a-zoom-doo, do-a-zoom-doo, do-a-zoom-doo. Did you ever think that you could make your own clothing? Well, if not, I am going to teach you how to make a dashiki, which is an African garment worn over your clothes. First, you measure your shoulders from shoulder to shoulder. And then you make a pattern out of newspaper. The upper part would be your shoulder width. And then on each side, you add 18 inches to make your sleeves. Then you put the pattern on material, any kind of material at all that you have, whether it's tie-dye or so on. And then you fold it in half this way so that the fold is up top, up at the edge of the pattern.

Do not cut on the fold. The only time you're going to cut on the fold is to make the semicircle for the neckline. Then you cut 12 inches down and 12 inches across to make the sleeves. Then you cut down and flare it a little. And you can make it as long as you want so that it looks like this. It looks like this so that the sides are open and the bottom of the sleeve is open. Now before you do anything else, make sure to turn it inside out so that it looks like this. But you first got to get it even and then you sew along the sides here and underneath the sleeves. But do not cut on, but do not sew along here because then you will cut, then you will sew your sleeves.

And then when it's all through, it'll look like this. and put it on and your friends will never believe that you made it yourself. Just in case you don't remember all of Harvey's directions, just send for the Zoom card on the dashiki. Just... And when you send for your Zoom card, don't forget to include a saisy. That's a self-addressed, not down below. By the way, when you finish making your dashiki, why don't you send us a picture of you wearing it?

Self-addressed stamp envelope, self-addressed stamp envelope, self-addressed stamp envelope. Oh, I just can't say it. Maybe you can't say it, but I can. SASE, SASE, SASE, SASE. That's not the same thing. Yes, it is. A SASE is a self-addressed stamped envelope. S-A-S-E? Oh, yeah, SASE. SASE, SASE, SASE, SASE. If you want Zoom to write a Zoom card back to you, just remember to include a saisy along with your letter. Saisy, saisy, saisy, saisy, saisy, saisy, saisy, saisy. I think around ten years from now, I want to be either in sports or I want to be in acting, I think. I don't know. But when I'm 21, I guess, or when I'm older, I think maybe I want to play basketball because I like to play a lot of sports. Yeah, when I'm 22, I think football will be my main goal. Ha, goal. Touchdown.

Well, if I was big. And if I still was interested in hockey, I wish I could be the only girl hockey player. Famous. You made the hockey team, didn't you? I like football a lot. I think that's what I'm going to be doing. Or else I'll be helping my mother in optometry or helping my father in optometry. Might have to take over. Probably. Family tradition. I'd probably be a story writer or I'd be an actor because I can imagine things. Like, I have this imaginary friend, George, but he's gone now. I think that he helped me through the auditions and everything. My mother said that it's good to have, you know, an imaginary friend and stuff. Some people say, oh, you're stupid, but it's not in ten years from now. I wish I could be, you know, something like that, not like mine. And I like to write stories and stuff like that. um i want i want to finish um like you know grammar school then i want to go to this um i want to go to this high school in new york lake placid high it's beautiful and i want to go to there for high school then i want to um i want to be nice well when um i get married i'm

going to move back to australia that's where my parents came from and i like it there because then i'll be with all my relations because right now i'm not with my relations and i'll live around near them we can like if we go like on holidays i can go see them and everything it will be better because right now i can't see them or anything like that because they're all the way out there in 10 years i don't know what i want to live in new york in a beautiful townhouse if i have the money. And I'm not going to get married. No way. I just don't like the idea of me being a missus. I want to just go to New York, have an apartment, or maybe live there with a friend. Hey, tushy. Horses. I don't know if I want to get married or not. I think I'd rather, I think I want to be a bachelor. I'm not sure. I want to travel. I want to travel. Like to I want to see Europe and, like, Italy or England, France, all around, I want to see.

Yeah, I want to go to Gmuda, I want to go to Canada, and I want to go to Florida. I'm just going to take it as it comes. Live my life now, not worry about ten years from now, I really care. Just the important thing is right now, not ten years from now. I know. What has a great body, short antennas, wings, big ears, and gives elephants money? I don't know. What? The Tusk Fairy. There was a girl named Kelly Sue who wanted to live in a zoo. But the zookeeper said, no, you'll just have to go. So she hid in a kangaroo. My name is Patrick Buckingham. I live in Brownsville, Texas. are working in the glass porter zoo mamma and i have been working together for about four months now he's gonna drop that hay on him he's just a teenager right now sometimes we go on the boat

ride with jesse to feed the different primate areas one thing real good about the glass porter zoo is that they have these new open like enclosures that are designed to look as much as the animals habitat as possible the animals are separated by water so they cannot get off the island and hurt each other this zoo is known for its rare endangered species the reason i think animals should be put in zoos is not for the people's enjoyment or for the animals benefit because they just get killed off in the wild too readily and they're not protected so zoos are the only place where they can be kept. you better hurry up jackie needs this food yeah and the animals are hungry

children's zoo is where me and mama do most of our work in the nursery we had two baby monkeys that are really special in the case of some animals the mother is not equipped to keep the animal so she does not want it like in the case of holly's mother she did not have enough milk so they had to take it away okay pat you want to go ahead and feed sakari then okay keep this arm under your arm to keep it out of the way yeah hold her upright and just dominate her movement What's your favorite? Sukari, the little baby gorilla, when she was born, it looked like Katanga, her mother, was going to take very good care of it. But all of a sudden, the night keeper found Sukari

under the water bowl of the gorillas. But when they're old enough to go out on the island with all the other orangs and gorillas, then they'll be put into a special area where they get used to the other animals, the other animals get used to them. With any kind of animal, you know, that loves you back and is very affectionate, you're gonna get attached to it, but you have to remember not to get too attached because you know they're gonna leave someday. When they grow up, they probably won't remember you at all. You think they're gonna love you forever, but they won't. I think it's time for them to go to bed. The food has to be checked every day so it's clean and it's good enough for the animals In feeding, we have to get certain foods for their diet. They get fed other foods like when kids sit on popcorn. If they eat it, they can get seriously hurt. We have to make sure their food and water is clean

so that there won't be any germs to hurt them or to give them diseases. All right, let's go. a lot of things to do with the children's who are kind of boring and sound silly but sometimes you get to know the animals habitat and what they're like but once they get to see your face and smell your scent they get used to you and they really don't mind because they really trust you and they know that you're trying to help them i like to think that i've learned something each day and that's really what i'd like to work in the zoo about is because you get to learn a whole lot how many kids do you know that have been able to touch a giraffe do you know how to revive a half-drawn mouse gee i just don't know how You give him mouse-to-mouse resuscitation.

I went down to old Joe's house, he met me at the door. Shoes and stockings in his head and his feet all over the floor. Fare you well, old Joe Clark, fare you well, I say. Fare you well, old Joe Clark, Ain't got long to stay I went down to Walter's house Told me come and eat I drank all that clabber milk And he ate all the meat Fare you well, Walter Clark Fare you well, I say Fare you well, Walter Clark Ain't got long to stay Thank you. Woo!

Yeah! Woo! Come on! Let's see him. Hello! We'll be right back. Farewell, old Joe Clark, farewell, I say Farewell, old Joe Clark, I ain't got long to stay When I was a little bitty gal, I used to play with toys Now I am a great big gal, I'd rather play with boys

If I had every little gal, I'd set her on the shelf And every time she smiled at me, I'd climb up there myself Farewell, old Joe Clark, farewell I say Farewell, old Joe Clark, hang on long to stay Farewell, old Joe Clark, farewell I say Farewell, old Joe Clark, hang on long to stay Farewell, old Joe Clark, farewell I say Baby, I'll watch your pocket, come on, stay I love that! First you move it around a bit Then you shake it about a bit Now you twist around a bit Then you swing it about a bit Now you know No, no, no, no.

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.