ZOOM, Series I; 601

Piano music ... ... Thank you. Zoom 601, WGBH-TV, Boston, 6 October 77. Good morning. 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 United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Education, 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 Che. I'm Susan. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you We need you We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom and zoom Come on and zoom and zoom and zoom and zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna reach for the sky You can help us to fly high Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, 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, zoom! Back to back. Amy, Amy! I haven't seen it yet.

Let's see. Elbow to elbow. Head to head. With the foot. Back to back. Back to back. No, I can't. Have I had you? That's all you can do. If you insist. Ready? Hand to head. Hand to hand. Leg to leg. Foot to foot. Toe. Shoulder to shoulder. Neck to neck. chin to chin, ear to ear, head to head, leg to leg, hand to hand, back to back. Back to back. Chin to chin, chin to chin, chin to chin, chin to chin. Who is it? Knee to neck. Knee to neck. Shoulder to shoulder. Arm to arm. Cheek to cheek.

ear to ear toe to toe knee to knee toe to toe back to back I'm going to show you how to stick a needle through a balloon without busting it you need one balloon a long tin sewing needle some thread and scotch tape. You blow the balloon up, not too big and not too tight. Then you take the needle and put the thread through it. Then you take some tape and put it on opposite sides of the balloon. Be sure it's smooth, though. Then you take the needle and stick it through the balloon on the scotch tape without busting it.

I hope it doesn't bust. That's a phenomenon for you. You gotta pow up, you gotta play, hey, you gotta send them to Zoom, right away. You gotta barrel, you gotta do, ooh, you gotta send them to Zoom, we need you. Something to tell us, something to ask, got a good goodie, got a good mask. We looked in our mailbag, there was something 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, Z-O-M-Box, Z-5-O Boston, Mets, O-2-1-3-4 Send it to Zoom We're gonna roll out the barrel and to find out what's inside too late. Dear Zoom, place a loose headband over your head so that it runs across your ears and the tip of your nose. The object is to get the headband down around your neck using a facial expression from Camontana, San Clement, California. Oh, shoot. Oh, man. Okay. Oh, man. over your ears and your nose how do I look I just washed my hair this morning I can't do a thing with it

hey wait wait a minute I can't do that I can't get it down again I'm eating this Oh, I got it. Where are you going? Oh, it's gone, it's gone. I'm getting it! I'm getting it! Get off! Mine's gone! Mine's gone! I can't eat it! I can't go like that! I did it!

This is a goodie sent in by Tangie Dubose of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. What you do is you take some mayonnaise and you take some banana, put them between two pieces of bread, and there you have it, a banana sandwich. What kind of sandwich would you make if you could make any kind of sandwich you wanted to? We tried it, and this is what happened. I need some mayonnaise. Do you want more pickles? Pass the mayonnaise, please. Mayonnaise. Where is it? I have just invented the best sandwich ever made. Are you kidding? The Amy. The Amy. This tastes horrible. Cream cheese. I made a salad sandwich. Isn't it delicious? Look at this so fun. Some Swiss cheese. I know what I'll do. I'll cut all of your tomatoes. We just left our tomatoes. Ketchup. Nope. I love pickles.

Pickles, pickles, pickles. More mustard. Oh, look at that. Let's see. What do I need now? Let's see. We can only have some vegetables on it. That's true. Some lettuce. Some lettuce. No, that's good. How does it taste? How does it taste? How does it taste? Celery. That's the sandwich over there. That's like mine, so I can't close mine. You squeeze it. Look at this. It's my sandwich. Thank you. It's gorgeous. What is it? Aren't I finished? No. Cottage cheese, cheese, salami. Oh, this cheese. Radishes. Cheese is gross. A little raw. I don't like cottage cheese. I hate it. No, the cheese with the holes in it. Swiss. I like roll food. I like cheddar. My mouth can hardly fit this sandwich. Amy's having trouble with her mouth? Unbelievable.

It's big enough. Here comes the first bite, everybody. This is television history. Here comes the first bite, everybody. I hope. This would be television history if I could get it in my mouth. I won my thing. A one. A two. I'm tucked. Open your mouth. Oh! What is that? I took a bite. Hooray! It's just impossible. The Balloon.

Story by Mark Anderson. Ichabod is walking to the local balloon store. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum. Let me see the balloons. Okay, here they are. Hmm, too pointy. Um, too long. Um, I need a microscope to see this one. What do you want? Um, I'll take this one. Hey, come back here. Pay for that. Hey, where'd he go? The end. Cinema Zoom is movies and videotapes made by you. We really like what we see on Cinema Zoom and want to see more. If you or your class have a film that you made, send it to Zoom. That's Zoom, Z-W-O-M, Fox, B-5-O, Boston Maps, O-2-1-3-4.

Send it to Zoom! And don't forget your saisy so we can send it back when we've all seen it. A couple years ago on my birthday weekend, I was out walking with a friend and my leg collapsed on me. And then I guess it was about a week later they did a biopsy and four or five days after that they came and told me that I had to have my leg amputated. What I had was a cancerous tumor. It was spreading and there were cancer cells all around that area and if my leg had been left on it would have killed me within a year. I never went through a period of feeling angry, but even now I can, you know, just be going along

and suddenly I think about it and sometimes, you know, I really don't believe that it's me who has my leg amputated. Okay, let's try it again. It's hard getting up these stairs because I never get my foot in the right place. About eight days after my operation, they got me up on crutches and then two days later they started me walking with my leg on the idea of the physical therapy is to get you out walking and out doing things again and they like to perfect your walk but you know they don't insist upon it what they really want to do is make you independent right You got it, you got it, just like that. Good, all right. And then push, there you go. There. One of the things that really seems strange to me now is I can't remember how I used to walk. I just can't think what it would be like to walk with two

legs and to not have to worry about where you put your foot and am I arching my back too much, or am I getting my timing right? You look like you're going to take off. I'm on a step with my arm, okay? Okay, now, slowly. Okay. When I got out of the hospital, I wanted to go back to school. I wanted to do things. I didn't want to sit down, sit around the house and do nothing. It took a while for me to convince my mother to let me go back to school. They were sort of, as I, overprotective. They don't think so, but I do. my friends at school when I first got back they were sort of cautious you know they didn't know how to treat me or anything like that Mrs. Talbot is this enough mushrooms I think so don't you but after a while they got used to me now they treat me pretty normal I just got carried away I went to a party once and some kid came up um imitating the way I walk very exaggerating he said hey

sort of walking like that do you always walk like that and I turn around I said no a year and a half ago when I had my real leg I didn't but now that I wear an artificial one I do he just sort of dropped his jaw said you're kidding me I know people aren't going to completely ignore the fact that I'm an amputee because there are a lot of things that I do different but yet I don't want them to make a fuss over it it's important if you had a leg and as you do on the other side that you have the movement when I post I think it needs a little bit of movement. It's only a tiny bit, but it's enough. All right, let's just go on with a good working trot posting. OK. After I had my leg amputated, I really

wanted to get back out and try it again. You can feel that you're up high, and you're up there and out and going. It's like skiing. You're just out there, and nothing to hold you back, nothing to inhibit you. I want you to remember to keep your knee bent, bent slightly at the waist, look in front

of you. Look where you're going. Don't look down at the ground. New England Handicapped Sportsman's Association is a really neat group. It's a lot of fun, and it really helps to know other people who have the same problem as you. It also helps to, you know, make yourself push and get to be as good as everybody else is. One of this, a lot of the skiers in the NEHSA are really fantastic, and that's one of the things I keep saying to my parents, I want to be as good as them. And they say, well, Diana, you might not be as athletic. You might not be able to, I say, yes, I can. You say you're supposed to keep your weight on the outriggers, but you're not supposed to put too much weight on them, are you? If you start coming off those outriggers and picking them up off the ground, when you need them, you're going to place them down on the ground. They're going to be all cockeyed. They're going to go off in different directions, and you're just going to lose your balance and fall. So we want you to keep them firmly planted on the ground and some weight on them. That's the only way you're going to keep them on the ground. Well, I know I'll never be a tap dancer or a famous ballet dancer or whatever,

and I know I'm never going to be a speedrunner, but things like that don't really bother me because I can do all the basic things that just everybody else does. I met this person who was talking about how it might be that he would have to have his leg amputated, and he was a very athletic person and he said well i don't know if i go through with it i think i might just let myself die because you know i just don't see any point to living but with me it's very different i look forward to what i'm going to do and what i'm going to be and i really look I look forward to life. It's very important to me, I appreciate it. It never works. Here's a Zoom Do sent in by Matthew Riley of Westbury, New York.

They're called Spool Racers. What you need is some wooden spools, some rubber bands, some tacks, some metal washers, sticks, pencils, or toothpicks. What you do is you stick a tack on one side of your wooden spool. Kind of hard. Then you stick your rubber band through your wooden spool. You might want to use a paper clip to make it easier to get it through. And you hook one side of the rubber band onto the tack. On the other side, you stick your washers in. then, your stick. And there you have it, your spool erasers. We made some spool erasers of our own using some larger spools that we found. We also made some smaller ones. We decorated them with

tape. You can decorate it with paint or markers if you'd like. The tighter you wind it, the faster it'll go, but be sure not to wind it too tight or else it's just going to spin all over the place. If you'd like a Zoom card with the instructions on how to make spool racers, write Zoom. Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. And don't forget your saisy. Drivers to your spools! On your mark, get set, go! Hip to hip! Zoom is looking for games! Shoulder to shoulder! Do you and your friends have a game you like to play? Head to head to head to head to head to head! Send the rules to Zoom! Box 350!

Boston has 02134! Send it to Zoom! I mean, punishments, when you get punished, you hate the person who punishes them after you. But then you like them afterwards. As soon as you get, like, big people, like 12 or something, if they get punished, they go in their room, and they sit there. And then they start crying. I don't. Because, like, they're there, and when their mother punishes them, they want to act really big, you know? And then they say, you know, I'm not going to cry. And then they get in their room and they start crying all over the place. Punishments, I hate punishments. But when my mother, you know, like, you know, just gives me a whack or something, right? I sometimes start cracking up and I make her crack up too. I do. I start cracking up and then she starts laughing and we just forget about it, you know.

Sometimes I think that adults, they have some sort of ESP or something like that. Because they can always tell when they can hear. They have extra super hearing powers. They can tell when you're lying just by looking at you. And they say, stop lying to me. Something like that. I heard you in there. Did your father ever tell you, I heard what you did? And he goes, how? I have eyes in the back of my head. I really used to be scared of my mother. I thought she was always out to get me. I used to think that every little thing I did, she could see. She had this little crystal ball that she was looking into, and she could see me doing anything. But I was supposed to go to the store, and I stopped, and I was talking with my friends, and I said, Oh, no, my mother sees me. I feel bad when, like, I get into a fight with my sister or something, right?

And then, like, it's really her fault or something, you know? and then i hate seeing her get punished i don't know why but i just feel bad you know and when you don't and she does and you both fight i feel so sorry like my brother gets punished most of the time you see and um you know it's i feel so bad i almost go and cry when my brother gets punished he starts crying and everything i just feel so bad i really love him you know he's my brother Why not? I love beating him up, too, but... When do your parents fully get angry at you? Um, if I break something. When I do bad things. When I come in late. When I hit my sister. When I beat up my brother. Um, when I get in trouble. When I do something wrong. When I don't obey them.

When I don't listen to them. I ignore them. They get angry all the time. Will the meeting please come to order? The main topic for tonight's discussion will be... Kids! I don't know what's wrong with these kids today. Kids! Who can understand anything they say? Kids! They are disobedient, disrespectful oaths! Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy loafers And while we're on the subject, kids You can talk and talk till your face is blue Kids, but they still will do what they want to do Why can't they be like we were Perfect in every way What's the matter with kids today? Kids

I don't care what Jimmy and Sally's parents said they could do. You're not going. Kids! Believe me, I'm doing this for your own good. You'll understand when you're older. Kids! Oh, just wait till you have children of your own. Laughing. Singing. Get some brilliant children. And we're all on the subject. Kids. They are just impossible to control. Kids. With their huffle clothes and their rock and roll. Why can't they dance like we did? Tangle the night away. Nothing's the matter with kids today MUSIC PLAYS

Kids, there is nothing wrong with us kids today. Kids, we can understand everything we say. Come on, friends. We're just the same as they were. Perfect in every way. Nothing's a matter with kids today. Today. Today. Today. Today. Told you it would work. We need you, we're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom

Come on, zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna reach for the sky You can help us to fly, hi Come on, zoom, come on, zoom, zoom Come on, zoom, zoom 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 United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Education, Bureau of Education for the Handicapped.