ZOOM, Series I; 510

Zoom 510 WGBH Boston Major funding for Zoom is provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations. Additional support is provided by unrestricted general program grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation. Come on and zoom, there's room for all We're gonna sing and dance and have our ball Everybody's having fun, everybody's number one Everybody's writing the show So why don't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom

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I think the bad part is when you get hurt. The good part is knowing how to ride safely and obeying the rules. If you want to skateboard, keep trying. You can do it even if you're a girl. And that's what I am. From Mishoya, Smiley, Chicago, Illinois. I want to try a skateboard. Yeah, I know. I tried it once. I tried it once. Yeah, I know. It kills when you fall off. Dear Zoom, you had a rap about parents getting divorced, and some of the Zoomers thought it was bad for kids to choose which parent to live with. My parents were separated seven and a half years before they got a divorce. My brother and I chose to live with our father after living with our mother during most of the separation. We adjusted very well and are happy about our decision. Thanks for being available to Air My Feelings from Justin Robinson, Coconut Group, Florida. I like that. Here's a poem sent in by Barbara England of South Bend, Indiana.

I wish I were a grapefruit, and here's the reason why. When you come and eat me, I'd squirt you in the eye. Chrissy Eno of Tucson, Arizona, sent us this letter. Dear Zoom, please read this to the public. I care about Zoom, and I hope you do too. So now's the time to send your idea, game, story, or poem to Zoom. Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. Thanks, Chrissy. How many envelopes send us to? A big one for Zoom and a small one for you. Put your name on the small one, your house and your street, and your city and state. Hey, that's neat. But where's the stamp? You almost forgot. That's very important. Yeah, thanks a lot. The bigger one's easy, you know what to do. Stuff everything in it, and then rush it to... To zoom, C-double-O-M-F-3-5-O.

Fuzz in red, four, two, one, three, four. Send it to Zoom! Fournier Marine. Hi, Mary. Transaropa. What time does she do at the pilot station? Very good. We'll be there. Billy, get the Ellen ready. Give me a tooth when you're set. My name is Billy Fournier, and I'm 11 years old. In the summertime and on weekends, I work with my father on tugboats. to someone who was first looking at an engine and tug it'll look real complicated but once you get the hang of it it's real easy

took me about three years to learn how to start the engine i started working on tugboats when i was about five years old and now i pretty much get to do anything my father does that ship is coming out of the fog right now off a speck he's right about a buoy 8. It's like the size of her, a little bit bigger than her. Yeah she's about 500 and I think she's 520 feet long. He'll take a coast pilot from Boston to New York. One of the things that our tugboats do is dock ships when they come into the Boston Harbor. Is that the Boston pilot? Often we have to take the pilot out to the ship.

The pilot is the person who knows the Boston Harbor real good. He can guide the ship safely without any rucks. He's got a thruster on his bow. It's like a tug forward. Me and my father have been doing this so long that it seems like it's easy. Come on to the other quarter. Put up a line. Okay, Billy, hold this. We'll just steer alongside of the ship. I'm going down to get a cup of coffee. Let me out of here. Yep. You feel like you're really strong and everything, that you're steering a big tug like that by yourself. Where do I get in there, Bill? Where do I come right in on it now? Well, when the ship gets near the dock, it's the tugboat's job to make sure you don't hit too hard or if he don't hit at all, we have to push him in so he's right in his own berth. Very good. Okay, Billy, come up here with me now. It takes a lot of skill for the tugboat to push the ship into the dock gently.

20 degrees right in, I'll keep it square. As he keeps increasing his headway, you'll have to put in a little bit more rudder. That's it. The pilot and the captain have to have a lot of teamwork to get the ship in safely. The captain of the tugboat has to really be like on his toes. If you don't take care of your tugboats, they can sink right away. And if you take care of them, you can keep them for centuries. I got some sort of old banger.

Billy told me he looked like something. I had the Heidi Atlas. Yeah, that's big. I really like the guys that I work with. It must have a wheel like the Peggy. I ain't a big guy. Those Atlas, those Atlas are big engines. They turn slow. they have big props like the one in the hudson was as big as the wheel i'm aware that i'm a lot younger than most of the guys but we still have a good relationship in the slip over there besides going out in the tugboats there's a lot of other things i can do when i'm up here and we got a lot of equipment around the yard and most of it i know how to drive now healing bring it back level okay Pushy is the smallest tug we have, and sometimes I get to drive it by myself. I have pushy to Megano Bridge. This is Megano Bridge, back to the pushy. Off Metropolitan Cole, opening, please.

OK, Captain Billy, we'll go right up in two minutes. Thank you. You're welcome, Captain Milley. Thanks for the opening, Tony. When I get older, I want to be a hockey player, but if I don't, I want to work with you. on the tugboat once there was a frog by the name of freddy freddy had a big problem he was the smallest animal in the jungle i'll never get any bigger maybe oval owl can help me Finally, Freddy got to Oval's house.

Oval, will you please help me? I know you can do something to make me bigger. Freddy, I can't make you a bigger frog, but I can make you a different animal, any animal you want to be. Well, I'd like to be a full Tony Tiger. That is what you shall be. Oh, I don't like being a Tony Tiger. Well then, what else would you like to be? I would like to be King of the Jungle, a Leo Lion. Well, okay, if that's the way you want it. A few hours later, Freddy came back. I hate being a Leo lion. Okay, what else would you like to be? I would like to be an Alice-y elephant.

Are you sure? Positively. A few days later, Freddy came back. I don't like being an Alice-y elephant. Well, I'm sorry. I can't change you back now. But please, you have to. I promise I will never ask to be any other animal but myself. So Oval Owl changed Elsie Elephant back to Freddy Frog. And from that day on, Freddy said, You should always be yourself. bernice vega of chicago illinois sent us this letter i want to read it no i'll read it dear zoom i never miss your show but sometimes i miss some of my favorite part because i'm too busy fighting with my brother why do brothers and sisters fight well i guess sort of because they

get mad at each other and you get tired of living with the same person all the time We'll be little minor things. It would be over something like a little piece of cake Like a brother or sister takes something that doesn't belong to them, and I think they start to fight They're probably jealous or upset at each other. I don't know. Sometimes they tease you or they You like you they tell on you and you get really mad at them because they have disagreements They live with each other so long and they get sick of each other because they get on each other's nerves I guess because they love each other Where do the bugs go in the winter? Search me. No, thanks. I just wanted to know. Chris! Chris! You've got to taste these cookies I just baked. Hey, these are great! Oh, we better stop eating so much before we get sick.

Yeah. Let's just have one more and then start. We need willpower. Yeah. There. Now we won't eat any more cookies. Yeah, we could open the box. True. There. Now we won't eat anymore. Yeah, we could take the spring off and open the box. True again. There. Now we will not eat any more cookies. Yeah, we could.

Clive the ladder. Take the box down. I'm time to drink. And get the cookies! True. True. True. There must be a way to resist temptation. Hey everybody! What are you doing? The cookies! The cookies! The cookies! Now you have lots of willpower. Great! But we'll have one more cookie left! One more cookie! One more cookie! One more cookie! Hello, Livingston, Livingston, Livingston, and Livingston, attorneys at law. May I help you?

Yes, I'd like to speak to Mr. Livingston. I'm sorry, he's in court. Well, then, is Mr. Livingston in? Sorry, he's in conference. How about Mr. Livingston? On vacation. Then please connect with Mr. Livingston. Speaking. I think that some people take it for granted that they can hear. My name is Alberta. We sort of have a special situation in my family because my mother and my father are deaf. My sister and I have normal hearing. The only time that you throw, trying to start at the same place and throw the same way every time. The reason why most people feel sorry for deaf people is because they think that they are cut off from all the world and they can't communicate with anybody. From what I've learned as I've grown up and lived around deaf people, deaf people can communicate just as good as hearing people.

Usually the way we communicate is we just sign with our hands, like that, not under, try to keep it under, that's the right way, go like that. Very good. Lock the door. what what kind of vegetables we're getting having succotash I learned sign language before I learned to speak how I learned to talk was probably around some of my friends and also from school I've got some responsibilities that some other kids don't have.

When I'm out with my parents, sometimes hearing people can't understand what my mother or my father is saying, so I have to interpret for them. She wants to know, she can have it cut up. Sure. Would you like it cut up? Okay. Hello? It's easier for deaf people to communicate now. we have a special phone that my mother and father have to talk with other deaf people with the telephone they type instead of talking My eyes are watering already.

The poorest things don't start to cry. What can I do to help it? You can run it. Water, onion under water. Okay. in lebanon reports say this has been the deadliest day of the civil war with 300 people killed in 24 hours another 600 are listed as wounded and hospitals in the moslem sector are reported to be short of oxygen drugs and doctors how's it going thank you pretty good my eyes are watering again oh i feel so sorry for you now you know how mommy feels having to do this all the time hi long time no see

we have a lot of good friends that have deaf people and hearing people in their family usually we get together around once a month to have a potluck supper potlucks are really lively because you see all these hands flashing in the air and then people are making noises and things like that i think that a lot of times that when people are talking to each other they're not really communicating because they're not really listening or looking at each other and that's why I think with deaf people they're not really cut off because they have to look at each other and that's real communication I feel kind of lucky to have deaf parents and be able to learn all about it I think I think that I'll probably work with deaf people when I grow up because I really think I'd like to share some of what I've learned

with some other people, too. Yeah, see you. See you, Jean. See you, Maryette. See you, Andrew. See you, Kim. See you, Tim. Bye! Wouldn't you like to learn sign language, too? These are some of the signs I use every day. Hello. How are you? Good morning. Good night, I love you, and goodbye. That's great. I wish I could learn all those signs. We can! They're on a Zoom card. Eureka! I just invented the telephone! Goody! Let's call someone! We can't. I only invented one. We're gonna roll out the barrel And to find out what's inside too late This barrel is called Toe Riding.

It was sent in by Kelly Long of Santa Barbara, California. Put a pen between your toes and write your name on a piece of paper using your foot, not your hand. Oh, let's try this now. I'm trying. Don't take the paper. Okay? Oh. I hear a moose. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't fall, don't fall, I can get all over me. There.

Oh, uh-oh. Ow! I'm doing pretty good over here. Yeah. Oh, that is good! That is good! Do-do-do-bee, do-do-do-bee, do-do-do-bee-do-boo Sing, sing a song Sing out loud, sing out strong Sing of good things, not bad Sing of happy, not sad Sing, sing a song Make it simple to last your whole life long Don't worry that it's not good enough

For anyone else to hear Sing, sing a song Do-do-do-do-bee, do-do-do-do-bee Do-do-do-do-do-boo Nobody can tell ya, there's only one song worth singing, they may try and sell ya, cause it hangs them up to see someone like you, but you gotta make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along. you're gonna be nowhere the loneliest kind of lonely it may be rough going just to do your things the hardest thing to do but you gotta make your own kind of music sing your own special song Make your own kind of music

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from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation. Thank you.