ZOOM, Series I; 326

Laban Transcription by CastingWords Yeah, so won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom Come on in, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom I'm Mike My name's Rose I'm Hector I'm Donna I'm Timmy My name's Sean I'm Dean Who are you, what do you do, how are you, nothing from you, we need you, so won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, come on, give it a try, we're gonna show you to fly, we're gonna teach you to fly,

zoom is made possible by grants from mcdonald's corporation and mcdonald's restaurants fund and the corporation for public broadcasting It's time to roll out the barrel. Here's a letter sent in by Roz Resedo of Maple Heights, Ohio.

Each person should get a balloon and a piece of string. Now blow up the balloon and then try to break it by wrapping the string around the balloon and pulling it on the end. It's one. And to find out what's inside today. It's over here. It's on a pencil. Pull-tie this. I don't know how to tie these balloons. I do. What are you going to do? I'll need some strength. Don't tie it around the neck. This one? Oh, there it is. Just tie it around the middle. Pull. Put it around the middle? Oh, the middle. You have to try and break it in the middle. Like this. Then you get pulled. Oh, I see. Then pull it tight. Oh wow, this is weird. I can't even tie it around. The neck. I can't tie this. Did you go like that? Oh, look at this. Did you go like this, Mike? No, like this. What's going on, Mike?

Okay. What? You get away. I got it. You don't want to get caught. Oh, that's what I've done. Oh, I popped it. We did it again. It's sort of hard to stand. We're in the middle, aren't we? Yeah. Oh! I pulled you. I did it. I did it. Way to get mad. I know. Now it's below. Now it's below. Now we're all together. Last night my dog tried to chew up my pocket dictionary. What did you do about it? I took the words right out of his mouth. Kaskaskia, well, it's a pretty place.

Sometimes tourists come over here. They don't know where they're at. People around here know everybody. They're all friends. Well, the farmers live around here. They're all pretty friendly people. Kaskaskia, Illinois, is an island in the Mississippi River. Its rich farmlands are protected from the river by a levee. The levee is a pile of dirt, so it's made to hold about 40 feet of water, and it surrounds the island and protects it from flooding. In the spring of 1973, heavy rains caused the Mississippi to rise so far that the river broke through the levee and flooded Kaskaskia. The flood caused a lot of damage and forced everyone who lived there to leave the island. Six months later, Zoom visited Kaskaskia, where several kids told us their story of the fly. Well, first, back in spring, the levee almost broke. It was real cold one night, and there was wash waves.

They were eating away the levee. The levee started washing away, and they had to fill in the sandbags, and it finally broke through. It just went over the top. Then the wind started after it all got leveled off. It just broke, and everything was a mess. Well, I'm standing on the levee right now, and behind me is one of the breaks in the levee that happened during the flood. And when the water was up, it was up to the top of the levee at one point. Some places it was washed off to just the side of it, and some places all the soil was washed out. The levee is the highest point on the island, and the animals would be on top of here, and they would get up on top of the rooftops

like there was a fox on top of one person's house. As it went by, they saw it up there stranded. Gary Menard, he was building a new house just right over there, and he didn't even get moved in it. And then the flood came, and it wrecked it, and there was a tree on it. I think he's going to move somewhere else. It was about two months, I guess, before the water started going down. After the flood, everything was just a mess. There was mud everywhere, and You hardly saw any grass at all, and all you saw are all these torn down houses without anybody running around, hardly any wildlife or anything. This is my house, what's left of it. This here is one of the bigger bedrooms, and over in there is another bedroom and the bathroom. This here is a living room, and here is a bedroom where I used to sleep at. Whenever my sister first saw it, I think that she was crying because it was just an awful mess.

I had two beds on opposite sides and a small little dresser here and a large bureau right in through here. And I just thought, it won't be the same. My house looked a lot worse than this after the flood. And when I first saw it, I thought, this can't be our house. It just doesn't look like it. But it was, and it took about three months to get the whole place cleaned up, and now we're starting to rebuild back on it again so we can come over here and live. This is the school that we go to now, and then this pile of junk behind me is the school that we went to last year. It got hurt so bad in the flood that it had to be knocked down because there was about three or four bricks holding up one side of the building. When everybody heard the levee was going to break on the island, they evacuated it. Most of the people moved into houses with relatives until they could figure out some other place to live.

The government gave us trailers and other needs. The trailers, they're different from a house. They're kind of crowded, and you don't have as much room. And here in St. Mary's, it's all crowded up together and everybody's right together and everything. It's not as peaceful as what it used to be. Well, it's just fun over here. You have plenty of places to go romp around. We're one of the few people that moved back on the island. And I'm glad to be back because where we were living, there wasn't nothing to do except go to town and all you do is mess around and get in trouble anyway. I guess some of the other kids will be coming along pretty soon. I hope so. We don't think we're going to move back because my father is afraid that if they don't build the levee back or make it higher, that next year if he spends all the money to build a house, that it'll just get washed away again or get tore up. It makes me sad in a way not to be able to come back.

It's just home. Here's a letter sent to you. by Gwen Garfinkel of Van Nuys, California, and she writes, Dear Zoom, I have a special place where I can sit and think in peace, and you may think I'm a nut, because this place is a garage, and it's dirty, webby, and dusty, but I like it. Some of my friends think that it's silly just to sit and think and sit and think, but I say it's not, and

and I asked them, why do you think so? They never answer me because there's no answer. It's a nice place, as though a leprechaun guarded it. Princess Plankface, sent in by Barbara McKinney of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There once was a princess who could not get married because, well, she was plain. Her hair was straggly and mouse-colored. All her subjects called her Princess Plainface. She was helpful and friendly, and all her subjects liked her. She's nice. But she's plain. But I do like her. The king and queen were troubled.

They liked her very much. I wish you were pretty. I'm worried. Don't talk to Muffle. Sorry. I said I'm worried. I am sad that she could not get married. Me too. Pass the milk, dear. Then, one day, the cook quit. I quit! And so, the princess decided to do the cooking herself. The steam reddened her cheeks and made the hair go back around her face. And then, one day, a prince came and ate at the palace. She's not bad. You're handsome. Oh, no, I'm not. My ears are too big and my hair sticks out. But you're beautiful. No, I'm not.

My hair's messy-colored, and I'm plain. Will you marry me? Okay. And so they were married by the cook, who had gotten himself a better job as justice of the peace. The end. Here's a game sent in by Tanya Chambers of Portland, Texas. It's called Aeroot, and it's a lot like musical chairs. First, each player chooses the name of a city. Then, one kid is the caller. When the caller calls out the names of two or more cities, those kids have to jump up and find a new seat. Whoever's left without a seat is the new caller. All flights means everybody has to switch seats. But if you get up when the caller says, Off-Lights cancelled,

then he gets your seat and you're the caller. Did you get that? Off-Lights cancelled. What? What? Chicago, South-Light City, and Houston. I mean, I... No! taxa-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. Time when to Washington. I said... Slow. cheat. Oh That's what's cancelled. Houston and Chicago. Houston. The end side, cha-cha-cha. Salt Lake City, Houston, Washington, everyone.

Michael. Houston, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and where do we go? Hey, everybody. What do you think? Yes, go for the package. What is that? You said the wrong thing. Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Houston. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! I don't think we're going to be in the times now. Sour face. You want to listen to me? Say one! Johnston, Johnston. You're really a farmer. Rose. Never again. Washington! Houston! If you have a game that you don't have to buy, send it to Zoom.

He started skating when I was one years old. My father got me interested because he used to skate. They started me just skating for fun. Then I started getting real serious about it and they started me on private lessons. On my first lesson I was kind of nervous because I didn't know what to do and I kept falling. After a while, when you start getting used to the idea that you really have to, you know, stand up, then you start doing it. From then on, I've been going ever since.

There are two kinds of skating, figures and freestyle. And on the figures, there are circles drawn on the floor. You try to follow them with your feet. And the freestyle is jumping, spinning, and footwork. Very good. This will be my second year with John and Didi at Warlex. Didi will teach me the arm movements and the ballet, and John teaches most of the footwork. I like working with John and Didi because when they want you to do something, they tell you exactly how. All right, Kathy, I want to work on the left outer forward three churn. All right, I'd like you to take it from about this point, quarter of the circle, to the churn. Let me see the edge after the churn and come back, do it again, so I can keep looking at the churn, and we can work on that to try to perfect it. It's going good. Free leg's in line, good.

But keep the weight on the back wheels. Very good. Extended the leg really nice that time. good try it again make sure the shoulders get around so they're over the line good very good it's going good try it again you have to keep a steady edge and you have to make sure your body is in a right position um your head has to be up and you have to make sure your turns and not jumped and they have to be smooth there's one big difference between figures and freestyle when you If you make a mistake in freestyle, you fall. Wrist up, and sweep down low, and across. That wasn't too good, was it? When you first start skating freestyle, you start skating slow, and when you get your balance, you start skating faster while you're doing harder jumps and spins.

Oh. Really, I still think that the fingers are too straight. You're not using the hands at all. Why don't you just do the end section for me without the music? The very end part. Stay down low. Stay down low. And come up. Bristless. Up. When I'm skating in a competition, it's kind of nervous because people around you are looking at you. But it's fun too because it's a challenge to see how good you are. I like freestyle because it's showy and a lot of people don't really expect seeing

something like that from kids my age. I skate about 15 hours a week, and when I tell most people that, they'd say, isn't it had but it really isn't because if you care about skating enough it's more of a sport and it's more like you want to do it it's so much that you can work for and like i'd like to be as good as i can How be I friends.

Wra be nubbing, robin e verb bro toll ball. We go to fashion. Rob-draw. Blop, blop, blop, blop, blop, blop. Sub-a-la-bong. Did you understand what that was all about? If you didn't, you're not alone, because some of us have trouble with W-W, too. The way you speak W-W is you put an UB before every vowel, and you accent the UB, not the vowel. So if you say Danny, you say dub-a-nubby, right?

Because you put the ub after the d, and you don't accent the a, so you say dub-a-nubby. Dub-a-nubby. You know at the end, nubby. Dub-a-nubby. Why do you get nubby? Because, okay, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y, right? So you put an ub before the y. Oh, yeah, sometimes y. I thought you just wanted the real here. You say rose, you say rubbles. Rubble ship. Shepard. Shepard. Shepard. Shepard. Shepard. Shepard. Shepard. Okay, give us a word now. Okay, uh, say shoe. Shepard. Very good. Aww. Say gold star. Say teeth. Tubbies. Very good. Uh, light. Labite. Labite. Beep! Beep!

Too easy for you. I'm going to give you two syllables. Sneaker. St-st-st, um. Sn-s-snoon-sky. Sn-snob-y-ker. Snub. Snub- side. Snub-cover. No, close. Snub-ah-cover. Snub-ah-cover. Snub-ah-cover. Oh, almost! Snub-ah-snub-ah-cover. It's a vowel. Snub-snub-ah-cover. Snub-ah-cover. Snub-ah-cover. Snub-ah-cover. Yeah, that's it, snobby cover. That's what I said in the first place, didn't it? Snobby cover. Snobby cover. Snobby cover. What's the difference? Double ABBA, Zaboomkabad. About Covey?

Vice O-C-O-O-N, Fox 3-5-O, Boston, that's O-2-1-3-O. ¶¶ He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack

Closed beneath the tree by the railroad track Old engineer would see him sitting in the shade Scrumming with the rhythm that the drivers made The people passing by they would stop and say Oh my, but that little country boy can't play Go, go, go Johnny, go, go Go, Johnny, go, go Go, Johnny, go, go Go, Johnny, go, go Johnny, go His mother told him someday you will be a man

And you will be the leader of a big old band Many people coming from miles around To hear you play your music till the sun goes down Maybe someday your name will be in light Saying Johnny be good tonight go, go, go, go Johnny B. Go, Johnny B. bro Go, Johnny B. Go, Johnny B. go Go, Johnny B. go Johnny B. Go Johnny B. Go, Johnny B. go Go, Johnny B. go Go, Johnny B. go Johnny B. go Johnny B. go Johnny B. go Johnny B. go Oh, my God. We've got a zoom, zoom, zoom a zoom, come on and zoom a zoom a zoom, zoom a zoom.

Come on, give it a try. We're gonna show you just why. We're gonna teach you to fight, hide. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Come on and Zoom. Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.