ZOOM, Series I; 210

So Presentation of this program is made possible by a grant from General Foods Corporation, by public television stations, and by grants from the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Everybody's doing it.

Everybody's grooving it. Everybody's having a ball. Yeah! So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. I'm Laura. I'm Danny. My name's Ann. I'm David. My name's Nancy. Uh, I'm Jay. My name's Tracy. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why

We're gonna teach you to fly, hide Come on and zoom, I wanna zoom, zoom I wanna zoom, zoom Eek! Hands off! Cut that out. It's time to roll out the barrels. Here's a Zoom barrel from Helen McCoy, who didn't give any address. I have a game, I have a game idea for, I have an idea for a game.

It'll take two people. Each of you take half the straws I've included and put them in a little pile in front of you. Now, at the word go, try to move these straws to the side by sucking them up with another straw. The first one to move his whole pile to the side wins. And to find out what's inside today! Oh, no! What are you going to do? You going to suck them away? Wait a minute, I'll show you. Wait a minute, don't cry. How many straws are there? But you got to take one straw out and grow it. It would be too easy. You got to suck them. So you got to suck them up and put them away. Oh, I've done that weird. Oh, wow. You each get a pile and you use one straw, so you put four things in your pile. Use one straw. And then try to suck them. The longest one. Suck them. Yeah, use the longest one. Those aren't piles.

Exactly, piles. Put them in piles. You have to come in piles. This one's long. Put this one like this. Put it like this. Don't cry. Okay. Move back. Wait a minute. Go the other way, boy. I'll read the directions. Move, David. Okay. No, David. Don't put your arm in there. As long as we're moving past them. Yeah, right. One. On your mind. Look. Get set. Two. Three. Four. If you have a game that you don't have to buy, send it to Zoom, and maybe we'll play it. Hey, come on.

Hey, come on, don't do that. You did it yesterday. No! I live in Skye Komish. It's a small town in the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington. and then populations around 250. Skykomish used to be a big town when they were laying tracks out here for the trains.

But now only freight trains go through and just the workmen and engineers live here now. This here is the general store. It carries pop and milk and dairy goods and nails and painting goods, groceries and that. It's the only store in town also. This here is a fire station. The last time they used the fire trucks was for a water fight out in the street. The theater here, they had to close it down. They didn't get enough business. They had some pretty good films there, though, occasionally. Well, the school, it was built in, I think, 1939.

There's not very many people in it. In the high school, there's only around 50. It just seemed like that basket had a vacuum. They went right in there. What they tried to do, they tried to foul Johnny Bestow and Ronnie B. We have some real characters in town. One of them is Joe Walmer. He goes to all the Skykomish basketball games. When they got out there on the floor, they beat Monroe. When everybody talks to Joe, all he ever talks about is basketball. And in fact, he never even stops talking about basketball. All my life, he said. He said that the sky boys... We have two taverns in town. The one right here is sweet peas. It draws in most of the hippies and skiers in the wintertime.

And then over here is the whistling post. It draws in the town people and a few outsiders, and it does a real good business. Most of the men in town work for the logging industry because there's so much forest land and that in the state of Washington. My dad, he works on a caterpillar, or either building road or clearing land for logging companies. When I get older I'd like to work for the Forest Service. It sounds like fun working out in the woods and doing different things, you know, like surveying road jobs and that. It'd be sort of fun. This is the first time I've ever had a job in the summer.

I'd go up to the chalet and I'd clean out the garbage cans in the back of the chalet, put liners in them, and then I'd get a free meal, and then I'd get paid. There was always something to do here in Sky. Skycomers River goes right down through the town and it's really a great place to go I like to live in Skye because the trees are surrounding you instead of buildings and you We don't have the pollution problem, and there's not as many people as there is in the big city. The river is here.

You can go swimming and fishing in it. Yeah, it's just a real good place to live. Uh-oh, here they come again. Hey, they're getting too close. Hey, get out of here, we told you to go away. Uh-oh. Hey, come on, go play your own yawn. Hey, that's too close. Hey, come on. Oh, oh, come on, that hurt. Don't do that. Stop it. Stop it. Uh-oh. Ah! That's smart. This is by Valerie Morgan of Linwood, Washington. The Case of the Locked Room. Just as John Archer reached his apartment door, he heard the tinkling of broken glass. What has happened, he asked himself as he ran to unlock the door. His cat, Tom, rushed against him in welcome, but John Archer had no time for welcomes. There, on the floor, lay Molly and Ben.

Thank goodness they're still breathing, said John. Their lives can be saved. Poor Molly, poor Ben. Who could have done this dastardly deed? The windows were locked. The only other way to get in was through the door. The only key to the door was in John Archer's pocket. Nevertheless, there they lay on the living room floor amid broken glass and a pool of water. Yet John knew at once who the criminal was. Can you figure out what happened and how? Stay tuned. Cut that out. Eek! Hands off. Hey, go play with the bananas. Remember the case of the locked room? I have the solution.

The deed was done by Tom. Remember John Archer's cat? The victims were goldfish. The sound of the breaking glass was that of the fishbowl. The water on the living room floor was water from the fishbowl. If you have a mystery, a riddle, or a story, send it to Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. Clarence the Cat, written and illustrated by Julie Merz of Brooklyn, New York. One sunny morning, while Clarence, Dexter, and Hoagie were packing for a big picnic, Tommy came running down the mountainside to them and cried, Spiky villain is stealing Mama's jewelry. Help, please come and get him away. Clarence, Dexter, and Hoagy were soon running to Mama Bear with Tommy.

When they all got to Mama's house, she was standing in the door crying and said that Spiky had gone in the direction of the lake. So they all ran that way. They ran down the hill and over to the lake and saw Spiky in the middle of the lake in a boat, but he was in the one with a hole in the bottom. Spiky began to sink slowly into the water while a jewelry started to float on top in an inflatable bag. Hoagie swam to the bag and safely brought it back to shore. Clarence, Dexter, and Tommy were happy. And Tommy said, let's hurry and bring the jewelry back to my mama. They all hurried to mama and brought her the jewelry. She started bouncing on her bed because she was so happy. Then she said, since you were all so helpful to me, I'll join your picnic and bring all the good food I have. So they all went to the orchid forest

for the biggest picnic they had ever had. Zoom will resume after this important message. Now back to Zoom. My name is Rebecca Raja, and we have about 25 sheep on our farm.

We started raising them because we were interested in having wool to spin, so we could make our own sweaters and things. Go on. Go on, Pearl. Go on. Go on. Go get her. Shearing the sheep is a pretty tricky thing to do. You have to be very careful of the shears and the sheep too, so my mother usually does the shearing. Shearing doesn't hurt the sheep at all. As a matter of fact, if they weren't sheared, their fleece would get all matted and tangled. If the wool is brown or black, you wouldn't dye it. You would just use it as it is. If you have some white wool, you can dye it almost any color you want. There are lots of natural things, like plants, that you can use to make dyes. I like goldenrod because it's easy to find. You have to use more than just plain goldenrod

to make a good dye mixture. There are other chemicals that you have to put in, too. You boil the goldenrod in water for about 15 minutes, and then scoop it all out. The goldenrod makes the water into a yellow dye. When the wool's dried, it's all tangled. You have to brush it out and get it untangled before you can spin it. Come in the wool is called carding.

When the wool gets all nice and fluffy, you're finally ready to start spinning. To make the wool into yarn, you use a thing called a spinner. It's sort of like a toy top with a long piece of wood that the yarn wraps around. You just give it a twist, and it spins the wool around and around, and it wraps it into a strand of yarn. You have to be a little careful not to pull too hard and break the strands. You just keep spinning and adding more wool until you think you have enough yarn for whatever you want to weave or knit. Thank you. Do you have dreams?

bad dreams, or even nightmares. We do sometimes, and we had a rap about it. Oh, yeah, when I was young, I used to, after every single horror movie I'd watch, I'd be scared to go to bed, because I know I'd have a bad dream. I hate bad dreams, I really do, because they scare you so much, and you wake up in the middle of the night. I find myself, when I have a dream, I wake up, I wake up, bad dream, if it's really bad, I wake up in it, and like I look around my room and you know I'm just looking and I hear these buzzing noises my radiators clink clink clicking and then I was I had this really bad dream and I got up in the middle of the night this is true by the way and I got up in the middle of the night once and I'm looking around and this was a warm night and my I my bed's this way and I have right above my head a window and the window is usually open it's just like a slide window and the shade was down and And all of a sudden, you know, the wind blows it in and the shade goes, and all of a sudden, the slacks, the shade goes right back, I stiffened up, I looked up and I saw it was

my window shade. Oh, but you know what? Like me, man, everything in my room starts to come alive, like, say there's a white shirt there, suddenly a skeleton there. Oh, my hat! My hat's floating around the room. Hey! There's a whole bunch of dolls. I have a whole bunch of dolls. Oh, my dance? Your doggie, your big doggie. Yeah, over in one corner, like this, my dad's over here, my sister, my other sister, and There's a corner of the big, big corner of the room. Like, here's my bed, and here's the corner of the room. And all the dolls are, like, they have big eyes, right? Like, when you have a real bad dream, you wake up. First thing you look at is, because the dolls are straight ahead, and you go. Yeah, the first thing you look at is, and the dolls go, they start, the eyes start blinking, and it goes, oh, yeah, down there. And my dog starts barking. No, it was one dream. I was sleeping over at my friend's house, right? And he has all these Dracula pictures, and King Kong and things like that. And so, you know, I slept in there, right? And I was just getting down to sleep.

This wasn't a dream, either. What? It wasn't a dream. So, like, like Nancy's? No, and then, go to sleep, right? I look up, look up at the Drunk Hiller picture. Looks like his eyes are just looking straight at me, because when I looked at it before, I was looking at a girl that was on the picture, and then I looked at it again, and it looked like it was looking at me. Now something, it looked like it had, it looked just like that with three fingers in the window. What? I don't know what it was. I found out in the morning, I think it was the knob for the window. It was really, it was really scary. I'm there sweating half to death. Do you like making funny faces with makeup? We do, and we had a lot of fun getting ready for the song we're doing at the end of the show. Hold your eyes, just don't sweat. If you make me a black eye, I'll kill you. Now you tell me. Oh! Oh, my word.

I can see what I look like in your eyes. You look funny. Hold still. Son. I'm gonna kill you. Dad. Ah, you saw it again. I've got to get that little crack. Go like that. All right, now some red after I do this. Oh, boy. Oh, my God. Please, please, please, please. Kelly, do you have a black eye? All right. You have a gray eye. Come in. Oh, yeah. Oh, here's some blue, right? Well, here's some right here. Oh, no. You're not going to do that. Just come on. Right.

No, no, just be a plain face, Sam. While I draw lines, right? Don't smile, you have to be a sound clown for now. Yeah, Dave, I just jinxed the wet ones. There. Oh, look at the eye. I got it out. I got your lonely boy. You take it. I don't know if that will be all right. Anybody else want that? What can I do? I could use safety pins. Well, look at that. I got the luck of the devil. You got the luck of the devil. Amara, you want to wear this? Kenny, you look good with that on. I can't put on makeup, buddy. Do you know what you look like? Oh, Amara, how about this? Here, here, Amara.

Oh, that's a good habit. Amara, how about this for you? Amara, look maybe around your waist. I want to get a safety pin. I have one. Oh, wait. You had a safety pin. Yeah, no, you have it. Please be fine. Ladies and Chili Spoons, I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Three years hang up as we wobble to and fro. Do you hear his tanglo? Do you him wobbo to and fro? Can you tie him in a knot? Tie him in a bow? Fling him on your shoulder like a silly soldier? Do you hear his hanglo? Do he hears hanglo? Do you himself wobbo to and fro? Can you tie him in a knot, tie him in a bow? Fling him on his shoulder like a silly soldier. Do your ears hang low? Minilina, hinilina, ooka-pooka, ooka-waka, ooka-pooka, ooka-waka, ooka-waka.

Minilina, ooka-pooka, ooka-waka, ooka-waka. It's her name. Wow! She has seven hairs upon her head. Four are alive and three are dead She has two eyes upon her head Four are alive and three are dead She has seven hairs upon her head One is brown and one is red She has two eyes upon her head One is brown and one is red She has one knee upon each leg Both are shaped just like an egg She has a dog, his name is Rex She has a cat, her name is X She has seven ears upon her head Four are alive and three are dead She has two eyes upon her head Four are alive and three are dead Middle-ina, middle-ina, ooka-ooka, ooka-ooka, ooka-ooka, ooka-ooka, ooka-ooka Middle-ina, ooka-ooka, ooka-ooka, ooka-ooka is her name

I woke up on a Sunday morning and looked upon the wall. The mosquitoes and the bedbugs were having a game of ball. The score was six to nothing. The mosquitoes were ahead. When the bedbugs hit a home run and knocked me out of bed. I thank you for your kind attention and will now present the last act first. the four corners of the round table, or how do your ears hang? Do your ears hang low till they wobble to and fro? Any time and a knot tie them in a bow, fling them on your shoulder like a silver soldier. Do your ears hang low? Yes, my ears hang low. As they wobble to and fro, I can tie them in a knot, as they tie them in a bow. Fling them on my shoulder like a silver soldier. Yes, my ears hang low. Do your ears hang low? Do you know any nonsense rhymes?

Well, if you want the ones that we have just sung, all you have to do is send us a self-addressed envelope. That's an envelope with your name and address on it and a stamp, and we'll send you a Zoom card. Say you wake up in the middle of the night, you got an idea that's out of sight. So you jump out of bed, look around your room, you're gonna write it all down and send it to Zoom. Or say you just seen something on this show, or someone cool you just gotta know. Write it all down, don't make a mess, and don't forget your name and address. Include a stamp so we can drop you a card, then dip your note in the bucket of lies. David doesn't know what he's talking about. He put it in an envelope without a doubt. Take your typewriter, pencil, or pen, and if you make a mistake, you've got to do it again. Write some T-double-O-N, box 3-5-0. Boston, that's O-Z-1-Z-O.

We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you the sky We're gonna teach you the flight I wanna zoom, I wanna zoom zoom I wanna zoom, I wanna zoom zoom I wanna zoom, I wanna zoom zoom I wanna zoom, I wanna zoom zoom Presentation of this program was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations.