ZOOM, Series I; 615

Hiya, Zoom 615, WGBH-TV Boston did this one on the 2nd of February of 78. Bye. Major funding for Zoom is provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Additional funding is provided by this station and by other public television stations, and by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. Come on and zoom, there's room for all We're gonna sing and dance and have a ball Everybody's number one, everybody's having fun Everybody's writing the show

So why don't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom? Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a, zoom-a-zoom. I'm Amy. I'm John. I'm Carolyn. I'm Nicholas. I'm Shana. I'm Jay. I'm Susan. You can't help us to fly high. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom.

Come on and Zoom. Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Zoom. Jokes. Players. Goodies. Barrels. Games. What's your favorite part of Zoom? When it comes on. The kids running around. Roll out the barrel. I guess when they do the plays. John, I'm going out for a few minutes to get a few things for supper. And while I'm gone, I want you to promise me something. Yeah, what's that? Promise me that you won't eat the couch. Eat the what? You heard me. eat the couch. Please, John. It really means a lot to me. Are you crazy? Have you flipped out telling me not to eat the couch?

Of course I won't eat the couch while you're gone. Don't be ridiculous. But do you promise? Yes, yes, I promise, John, I won't eat the couch while you're gone. Good. Because that's what would happen for dessert. This barrel was sent in by Charlotte Connors of Dallas, Texas. Dear Zoom, try to write your name on a balloon that's covered with shaving cream using a sharp pin. You'd better wear old clothes and do it outside in case you mess up. You won't mess up the house What do I do now?

Well, I like the mail. Games. Zoom wrap. Dear Zoom, what would you do without television? Would the world be any different if there were no television? from Jennifer Rosencomer of Westwood, Massachusetts. I don't think TV would be really a loss if TV loses because you really have radios and books. I like TV pretty good and radios because I used to think radios weren't that good because they didn't have pictures on them. Then I was listening to the radio once and I really found that radio was better than TV because I really used my imagination and I didn't have to picture all that violence on TV. it wouldn't be a total loss since we have tv we can imagine what the radio is really talking about since we have it tv ain't all violence i know it's not all violence some of it's good and some of it's just like everything everything influence the mind so much i mean there there are people who

spend their whole day sitting in front of the tv and maybe what they're watching is educational But, you know, like, got into a state where it doesn't matter. It just... When they talk to their imagination, they let the TV think for them. I don't think that TV, I mean, is all that bad. Because, like, you know, like, I mean, I don't know what I would do. I'm going to just sit up because I'm like, I don't really like to read. I like TV. I really like TV. I did, I mean, because I don't really like TV. I used to watch TV a whole lot, a whole lot. and I used to get bad marks in class or I'd get in trouble and I couldn't do my work. I used to watch TV a whole lot and I couldn't do my homework. Now that I've cut down on TV and listened to more radio, I've been doing good on my work and stuff like that in school. What about the little kids? They can't read the newspapers. They can't read books.

And when they're listening to the radio, they can't really, you know, get a good picture. It's educational for the younger generation. they might not learn as much some of it is John, the things that little kids watch though are they really educational? think about it you think about little mice being chased by a cat and the cat shoots them with big huge I know, but that's what they watch they don't have to watch those things that's their own choice they choose what they want to watch so it doesn't matter some of it's educational not most of it I couldn't care less I never watched TV anyway I just go back up to my room read another book to do but something was missing something from you so go get some paper and something to write

with the mailman will travel all through the night with your letter and then she'll deliver it here and we will meet it and we will greet it and we will read it with cheers oh one thing more As if you can't guess That's send your new letter to the same old address That's Zoom T-W-O-M, Box 3-5-0 Boston, Mass, O-2-1-3-4 Send it to Zoom! Zoom phenomenon. The part when they show about people's lives. When they have the Zoom guests on. My name is Dee Armstrong and I'm 12 years old. I was born with Larson's syndrome. I had dislocated hips, dislocated elbows, dislocated knees, and clubbed feet. I've had body casts, leg casts, back brace, and leg braces, canes, crutches, wheelchair, and anything else you can think of around in that area. I've been going to school for handicapped kids for a long time.

How are you doing today? What's the next class? We all have the same interests and stuff. Plus, I understand them and they understand me. This year, I've been going part-time to a regular school. I was afraid of meeting some of the kids, Especially when I got off the bus and I see about a whole trainload of kids coming out of their classes. I thought, oh my gosh, I'm going to be trampled over. I was kind of embarrassed. I didn't talk for a while to anybody in my class. I guess they weren't used to me and I wasn't used to them. The reason I interrupted your lunch is to find out how it's going over at Northridge now. You've been over there a while this semester. How's it going? What do you find different at Northridge as compared to Miller? Some teachers are more lenient. Really?

Lots of times they really think that you're, just because you're from Miller, you've got something more wrong with you than just being in a wheelchair or something like that. Sometimes people treat you like things and say, you know, like, oh, she's on crutches or in a wheelchair, she can't do anything. Well, they treat you kind of like a toy or something. Some of the guys, they'll walk up behind you and they'll start pushing you. And then they try to run you into somebody else. them like that you'll warn them tell them that you know you know what can happen hurt somebody but they just that doesn't seem to sink in not really that they dislike us it's just that they can't be the last person if someone else calls them stupid they got to make fun of us because we're we look different then we come back here and we make fun of somebody else they make fun of somebody else and it goes on and what advice would you give to an incoming seventh grader who came through my office and i and was told by me that they had to go to north Well, um, my advice would be probably to say, you know, just be, you know, your everyday self. You know, you have to expect some comments here and there, you know, some of them you might not like.

But still, try to handle yourself, maintain yourself. I seem to be catching up in my classes. Yeah, well, I'm not worried about that part. I never have any trouble there, but I'm worried about how the kids will treat you. They're going to have to treat me some way, sometime. How they'll accept you? It's okay. They have to get used to it anyways. I know, but I don't want you to be the first one that they get used to. Seems like most of the world is filled with regular people, people with no problems. And I'm going to have to face that world sometime. So I might as well be at a young age. I don't know. We'll see, okay? we'll see how you walk with the brace and everything and see how you get around let's see when you're sitting well when I heard I was gonna have to have another brace I practically well there's no way to describe how I felt so you know a

little mad a little disappointment that's it you're doing pretty good take try to take a little shorter steps where do you feel it in the foot around the ankles well that'll just feel that way for a short time a day or two and then you won't notice it you'll become accustomed to it like you have in the past i don't know if i'll have to have braces for the rest of my life i might i'm almost put together almost brace up under over no you normally you'd wear the pants over the top of the brace oh that's logical do you ever wear dresses d no no how come because impractical one of the things i really like about laura is we have a world set basketball team we either challenge regular schools or either they challenge us i think they What we can do is put ourselves in our spot, but we can still beat them.

These are handy stuff. Well, I caught a couple of mackerel. Ew. I didn't catch anything. The last time he was listening, I went out on the boat. On weekends or holidays, I go over and I visit my dad over at Paradise Coast. All right, no fishing for me today. Get out of here. Out of here. What about if he holds it and you hook it? I'm the one that doesn't catch the fish. My dad can pull him out all day if he wanted to. I still like doing those things.

Okay. Turn it over. Hold your finger like that. Don't hold the line up here. Up! Turn the handle. There you go. Yeah! That's great. That's better. I do know there are some things I can't do, But yet I do know there are things I can do, like with my head, my mind, my brain. Sometimes though I do wish that people wouldn't just sit there with their eyes on my canes. Why can't they look at me instead of my canes? You know, I am a person myself. I just need a little extra equipment. This is a Zoom card. On one side is a picture of a bunch of Zoomers, and on the other side is something to do. There are Zoom cards on a lot of things. Endangered animals, dashiki, crystal radio, make your own mask, hot air balloon. If you'd like a Zoom card, write Zoom.

Nature album. That's Zoom, T-O-M, Fox, Street, Five, O. Boston, M-A-S-O, two, one, three, four. Send it to Zoom. Batik T-shirts. And remember, send a self-addressed stamp and book so we can send your Zoom card to you. Pretzels, dry-dye. I like the Zoom Do's and the guests. When they're talking about the letters. Zoom goodie. Here's a goodie that you won't believe. It's called peanut butter cones. What you do is take some peanut butter. and jelly and mix it all together. Make sure you mix it in real good, then you take some sprinkles, nuts and candy, anything

you like and mix it in with the peanut butter, then you take some wafer or sugar cones and And put your peanut butter in them. Like this. You can freeze them for 15 minutes if you like, or eat them just like this. Good. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Thank you.

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I see a boy. We're looking for games. Do you and your friends have games you like to play? Hey, Amy, how do you keep a turkey in suspense? Oh, how? Amy, how do you keep a 200-pound... Got no mansion, got no yacht Still I'm happy with what I've got I got the sun in the morning Dear Zoom, have you ever felt embraced? I have

I feel stupid once Once I was in a supermarket and I started wheeling someone else's shopping cart when I found out. That's embarrassing. Embrace. I was just going to say, why does it embrace me? I don't know why it was embraced. Why is it embrace me? It was embraced. John, it was embraced. It's not funny. Ah, let's see what we have here. And the winner is... Dear Zoom, have you ever felt embarrassed? I'm not gonna do this anymore.

Being a kid... Oh, oh boy. Being a kid always... What do you like the most being about a kid? Kids! I don't care what Jimmy and Sally's parents said they could do. Kids! Kids! I don't care what Jimmy and Sally's parents said they could do. I have some really neat things to tell you about camels. He spits. Yeah. There's gunk in his mouth. He doesn't... A camel stores a fat in a ton. And then when they're going on really long trips... There you have it, banana sandwich.

And there you have it, banana sandwich. And here you have it, a banana sandwich. And here you have it, a banana sandwich. And there you have it, a banana sandwich. That was good, wasn't it? all of it the songs the dancing when they sing songs when they dance the songs when they do the dances and all i guess when they be dancing and singing Some say it's time to spend it

Some say it's time to save Some say the world is ending And all you can do is pray Some sitting back, want to take it easy Some standing in line, looking for a job Good times, hard times, red lines and headlines Gotta meet a deadline, working like a dog It's a good time to get to know your neighbors It's a good time to get to know them good It's a good time to throw a party Invite the whole Zoom neighborhood We'll make sure everybody on the show is coming People on the camera, the person on the boom Rockman, lightman, all the out of sight

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Come on in there Come on in I want in zoom Come on in there Come on in there Come on in there I want to zoom Come on in there Come on in there Come on in there Come on in there Major funding for Zoom has been provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Additional funding has been provided by this station and by other public television stations, and by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped.