ZOOM, Series I; 412

Presentation of Zoom is made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Everybody's doing it, everybody's proving it Everybody's having a ball, yeah So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom Come on into my, zoom, my, zoom I'm Pauly 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, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. Come on, give it a try. 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 ladies and gentlemen of the explorer society it is my privilege to to introduce the speaker of the evening. He needs no introduction, so I won't introduce him. Thank you, thank you. It is indeed a great privilege to be here. This evening's lecture is on a new method on how to catch crocodiles. To catch a crocodile, all you need is one very large, powerful telescope, an ordinary pair of tweezers, a very small matchbox, and a very large, boring book.

On a steamy hot day, go down to the riverbanks where the crocodiles live and start to read your book. And since the day is hot and the book is long and boring, you will soon fall asleep. He fell asleep. Sarah, wake up. Oh, that's so embarrassing. Oh, yes. Oh, excuse me. soon the crocodile will come out of the river to investigate he will peer over your shoulder and start to read the book and he will soon fall asleep and when he does you wake up look at him through the wrong end of the telescope that way he appears very very much smaller pick him up with a pair of tweezers and put him in the matchbox and there you have your crocodile If you have a play already written, or if you'd like to write a play, especially for TV, write Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. Here is a game sent in by Rivka Fredman of New York City.

Each player has 10 beans, a straw, and an empty soda bottle. The object of the game is to get all the beans into the bottle. You have to pick up each bean by sucking it up with a straw. On your mark, get set, go! Red, come on. Whoa! Well, something like you're nervous, Fred. Oh! Whoa!

Hey, man, you know what hippie frogs say? Nah, man, I don't know what. Dig it, dig it. Hey, there. How long have you been sitting out there just watching TV, not doing a thing, just bored? You haven't even wiggled your big toe, I bet. Right? Well, why don't you take some time out and get some exercise? Yes, you. Get some exercise. Stand up. Good. Yeah, come on. Stand. Great. Great. Now, let's stretch. Yes, stretch. Way up. Just get those arms way up. Stretch.

Good. Good. Very good. very good now why don't you exercise your neck muscles yes do it with me now we go around like that very good very very good is your blood circulating a little dizzy unwind yes very good now why don't you exercise your eyes don't they get tense during the day well here's an exercise for them. Roll them around like this. Try and touch your nose. See if you can touch it. See if you can see your toes. Now, let's do some jumping jacks. Yes, some jumping jacks. Ready? One, two, three. Very good. Very, very good. Aren't you feeling much better? Yes. You're getting more power into it. Very good. Now, let's do some toe touches, okay?

All right, stand up nice and tall. Now, ready? One, two, three. Well, I'm glad you liked my exercises today, so be sure to keep in practice by doing all my exercises so you can be in great shape for any time you need your muscles great great bye hey man you wouldn't believe me but let's not i dream that i eat a five pound marshmallow i know i know and this morning your pillow is gone nope you're wrong there it's here dear blabby looks like she's in an awful hurry could anything be the matter

i'm so hungry i can eat anything louie what's on the menu today funky chicken get it oh you cut it out with the rubber chicken thing i'm serious i'm really hungry not hungry are you yes i am now tell me what's on the menu your favorite chicken i mean no no that's not you the blue plate deluxe nah i don't want any blue plate deluxe today i want pizza pizza pizza sure you don't want chicken nope i want pizza come on you never refuse my blue plate special come on i refuse it now i want pizza okay coming right up stupid chicken yeah i need pizza dough sugar who needs sugar and pizza where would i leave it i'll need to fix this kitchen up

Blabby will just have to have something else. Blabby, are you sure you don't want the blue plate special? That's right, I don't want the blue plate special. How about the red plate special? Uh-uh. Maybe the no plate deluxe? Louie, I want pizza. I'm a guy if I don't get to chomp into a nice slice of pizza. Would you like to lose one of your dearest friends just because you couldn't cook up a nice piece of pizza? Blabby, there's something very important I have to tell you. What is it? You have to know. Oh, you can tell me you can tell, dear Blabby, anything. I don't have any pizza, though. No, though. No pizza.

Oh, I must be fading. It must be nearing the end of my road. My long, long road. Louie, remember me to the professor in Tootsie. Oh, you cut it out. You're breaking my heart. Maybe a miracle will happen, maybe something. Oh, I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't make a pizza without pizza dough. Unless I use an English muffin. Oh, boy. Now, to make a pizza, as I remember them, is to use some tomato sauce. Oh, it looks so delicious. Oh, it tastes so good. And you can put a slice of cheese. some oregano spicy to make it spicy and a piece of salami if you like it or else you can use

sausages now chef lasagna will put you in a nice warm place and that nice warm place happens to be in an oven at 375 degrees for 10 whole minutes and it will taste nice and melty and chewy and if If you don't know how to work an oven, be sure to ask an adult to help you. Louie! Blobby! Louie! Blobby! Pizza? Pizza. That doesn't look like a real pizza. A real pizza looks like this. Maybe it shrank in the oven. Anyhow, the important thing is to try it. Is this an Italian pizza? It looks more like an English muffin.

Try it. Louie saves the day. Can I have a bite? Mm-hmm. Wait till I tell my many readers. Just exactly what will Blabby tell her many readers. Does this mean the end of normal-sized pizzas? Tune in for the next stupendous episode of As the World Zooms! Pizzas keep falling on my head Meatballs, salami, and pepperoni Oh, boy, do I love pizza Can't seem to get enough of that good Italian stuff But I'll keep trying We've been having some trouble here on the pizza parlor Because pizzas seem to be mysteriously disappearing

Pizzas in the night, exchanging sausage Pizzas in the night, they make me nauseous Gosh, that guy was so involved with twirling pizzas That he didn't even see me Oops, I got caught Hey, hey, I caught you red-handed, you little pizza snatcher. Shame on you, you bad boy. Don't you know it isn't nice to steal pizzas? I've got to teach you a lesson. Ow, ow, I want my mommy. I'm taking you to the police station, you little brat. That's where you belong. Ow. Dun, dun, dun, dun. What's for lunch? Pizza. Oh no, I hate pizza. I lost my appetite. Take it away. I never want to see a pizza again, as long as I live. Hey David, do you ever have trouble making up your mind?

Well, yes. Eh, no. Bop-ba-da-da. Bop-bop. We're gonna roll out tomorrow. Here is a game sent in by Margie and Levine of Chicago, Illinois. We're gonna find out what's inside today. Split up into two equal groups. Each group gets a bag of props. Then you have three minutes to make up a play to perform using the props in the bag. Okay, let's try it. Oh, wow. Oh, God. Oh. Toothpaste. I'm taking off. She implants. This is the brush. And they put the toothpaste on. Okay, you want to be the barber? You want to be the barber? all right i'm not wearing this nose come here we go y'all i just want the end to me we're starting okay my name's bubbles bubbles can't you tell oh um so you want your hair washed right right

and cut and trimmed about three inches. You really want me to put this stuff in your hair? What is this? It's a new kind of conditioner. Yeah, that's what they all say. Well, it is. Last time I came out of one, I was bald. Hurry up. Okay, Bubbles. You don't call me Bubbles. You call me Mrs. Bubbles. Okay, Miss. Okay, I still got cutting, you know. Oh, do you, um, play in the, um, Hollywood adventure series or the mysteries? I don't play in any of them. I work in them. Do you, do you like the mysteries better? Yeah. The spooky stuff, too? The horror movies? Yeah. They're all right. Oh, well, how's this? No. Wait to do that for her. Um, did you see this new magic wand soap bubbles? No, I didn't. Let me see.

The reincarnation of Lawrence Will. Did it go there? By the way, who's Lauren's world? Lauren's world reincarnation bubbles. Have you thought of those? Yes. Bubbles, wash away your troubles? I get it. Special idea? Yep. Wow. Write it yourself? Yep. Send it now. Send it where? Send it to Zoom. Send it to home. Poem or cut or play Whatever you've got Take your time A story or a game You bet A riddle A feeling you bet Now why don't you send it to Zoom Boom Name and address A stamp Yep A say Z2 Of course Now why don't you send it to Zoom Write Zoom Z-double-O-N Box speak Bible

Boston, that's 0-2-1-3-4 Send it to Zoom, yeah! Hey, David, man, can you yodel? Nah. Okay, knock, knock. Who's there? Little old lady. Little lady who? I thought you said you can't yodel. I did. That's what he gets with being a wisecrack. When we go crabbing, we have to start out at 4 o'clock in the morning. Some people, it sounds early, but for me, I'm used to it because I go crabbing quite often. Where I live, most men do mostly fishing, crabbing, shrimping. My dad has been crabbing for at least 15 years. Jeannie is the oldest brother, and he's working with my daddy. In the morning when we start out, we don't know what kind of day it's going to be.

Some days when we come out, we just feel like going back in. Because some parts of the year it's good and sometimes it ain't. It takes us about an hour to get out to the crab trap. Once we get out there, we have a lot of work to do. We have 200 crab traps and we have to pull each one of them up every time we go out. It takes us about three hours to run the 200 traps. One of my main jobs is putting bait in a trap. Sorting is a big job. There's not that much difference between the size of the crab, so that's why it's hard to judge. you got to know which crab goes where every second or third day I usually go fishing or crabbing I know the water is right around here pretty good I think

the waterways used to be beautiful but now looks like everybody's got bottles and cans all over the side of the water i wish the people would clean up the environment you know it's killing all the fish and crabs there's a beautiful crab nice big stone crab okay that baby grabs you you can crush your finger He's got powerful claws. You have to be very careful with him. Take care of him, Warren. Looks like we've got, what, almost four baskets, huh, Warren? It's going to end up somewhere around four or five hampers, I guess. Looks like we're not going to catch much today. Might get about four or five. Four or five more, well. How come we're not catching so good today? Well, we never had much tide movement yesterday.

And we got that other blow coming a little later on, so. That ought to help them out, huh? Oh, yeah. It'll make the catch good for tomorrow and the day after. It's not helping us today. We all can go home now. We're going to quick speed. To be a good fisherman, I think the most important things are to know where to crab at a certain time of the year and to put the traps in the best place and to have enough traps that you'll catch a decent amount of crabs. If the crabs keep on biting like this, they'll have to put the trawl on and go get some shrimp. Catch crab bait, too. Catch crab bait, that's right. So are you going to end up with about eight? We don't have many more traps to go. It looks like the catch is picking up. I like working together with my brother and my daddy. The three of us are comfortable when we're working,

because each one of us is helping the other one out. When I grow up, I like to be a commercial fisherman, too. Sometimes I worry if there's going to be any crabs or shrimp unless they're going to all die off with everybody polluting the waters. What do you guys think about schools? I think the best schools, if I was going to school, would be like, you know, say it would be doors, big giant doors, and it would be these two men that would let you in, and they'd say, like, give you a card, and are you supposed to be here today? And he goes, yeah. and then you get in and the teachers would be you know and they wouldn't have any computers or anything like that and like the teacher would be mean when he had to be mean and he would react to anything like regular and normal way so

it would be just right you know I think in um I don't think school's a good period just I think if somebody couldn't then I'd like to invent a machine that is like a teacher it's like a computer that teaches you yourself that's geared for your brain because no man or person is geared you know knows what your brain or mind is really like because they do after a while though all your records no but i know but they it's not they're never going to find out how you really are like neither is a um a machine but i like like a machine can gear itself to your what your ability you know um i was seeing on the news one day that kids were using calculators and their parents were um in the school that they were using cap calculators and their parents were fussing about it because when they use calculators they have the answers and and they don't know why and how all they do is just press numbers and do this and you you know you really shouldn't use calculators like that because it doesn't help

the child think yeah and it doesn't and it doesn't tell you why how how this did how how this certain number got to this number like that my my teacher you know when i was in first second second grade and and i and it was she was very nice a little you know she was just so nice that i i you know i wouldn't get good grades at all you know because she was so nice i wouldn't learn anything you know and I come home and I you know I'd get this low mark and my mother be proud of me because that's about the best I could do and you know so I got in about third grade and I had this really good teacher all right and she was nice but she was strict and she pushed me and I started getting you know A's and B's and I was really doing good. It's easy for me to learn without being strict like my My teacher's really nice, but she isn't strict like she isn't me.

And I'm like, if the kids start messing up, she doesn't yell at you. She just tries to get you calmed down, or else she sends you out. Thank you. Okay, this is a dance I'm going to show you that I'm going to teach you.

okay you put your right foot on the bottom of your toe like this and your right hand out beside you and your left hand in front of you and you sit and you tap your right foot two times one two then you change arms and legs one two no you change the other way like this but this put your right foot right here this left foot right here. Okay, try it again. Okay, go. One, two, one, two. You go eight up. This is my sign.

This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. This is my sign. What's the name of the game? The word. How do you play it? Like this! Ah, na, na, na, na. No, I have to do it. Come on, give it a try. We're gonna show you just why. We're gonna teach you to fly high. Come on and zoom, come on and zoom zoom. Come on and zoom zoom. Come on and zoom zoom. Come on and zoom zoom. Come on and zoom zoom. 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. Thank you.