ZOOM, Series I; 430

. . . . . . . . . Thank you. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom Everybody's doing it, everybody's doing it Everybody's having a ball, yeah So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-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, I zoom Come on and zoom, I zoom, I zoom, I zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why We're gonna teach you to fly, hide Come on and zoom 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 Give your name, occupation and the charge against you.

My name is Spark, I'm an electrician and the charge is battery. Well then, I guess we'll have to put you in a dry cell. This is a terrible shock. Well then, let's switch to something else. Here's a relay race sent in by Roseanne Scott of Woodhaven, New York. Have two teams with three zoomers on each one. Each person must blow up a balloon, tie it, run to the chairs, sit on a balloon to pop it, and then run back to the starting point. The first team to pop its three balloons the fastest is the winner. Good luck. Okay. All right. The teams are... Okay, we already have them. All right. First, okay. You ready? No, Normie, you're starting to blow yours. You already blew yours. Normie, you didn't see it. Come on. Ready, get set, go! Come on, Tracy! Come on, Norman, that's it! Come on, Tracy!

Come on, Tracy! Come on, Tracy! Just take your time, don't rush, don't rush. Don't rush, you can do it. Come on, Tracy! Oh, gosh, there you go. Just sit hot, yeah! Come on, Andre! Just don't rush. That's so little, though, it'll pop so easy, though. I'm sorry, they had the balloon there. Oh! Yeah, okay. I have the time. Take your time, Monty. Take your time. Take your time. It's a race, yeah, but just take your time. Yes! Yes! Come on, guys! Come on! It's gonna pop on this first one! I need balls on it! Balls on it! It is gonna pop easy, huh? Ah! Jump on it. Just let your feet go and go. That's right. That's Andre. Hold on to the seat and push up. Pull it with your teeth. Yeah! Come on, Andre! Harvey!

Harvey, take your time, Harvey. Take your time! Take your time. Come on, Harvey. Come on, come on, Harvey. And now, in the fading grandeur of the once famous Zoom-in, another episode of As the World Zooms! Lobby, what's the matter?

You didn't lose another letter again, did you? You kidding? It's worse than that. They cut my column off in the newspaper for some old comic strip. Do I hear someone singing the blues? Yeah, Ricky. Blabby's column's been cut off. Cut off? That's terrible. Maybe I can make a song out of it. Poor Blabby's got those just lost my job blues. I know what to do. This looks like a job for Super Clerk. No, Frank, I'm afraid not even Superclerk can help now. Professor, did you hear what happened to dear old Blabby? She says that she is going to the cloud and the sky all because they got her for column in the newspaper. We can't let her go. Only she can solve our problems. Blabby boy, do I have the problem. Mr. William pays me too little, and I am a hard-working lady,

and I serve good food. That's nothing. The lights are on the blink, and I don't have the right tools to fix the elevator. Blabby, my playing days are over. I needed a concert lined up and a new agent. What was that again, Louie? Not enough money? And a professor? Not good enough tools? I thought you were sick and dying. You kidding? Blabby's answer service right here. First, I'll have to set up an office. Line up one by one. I'm second. You see five. Mr. William. Without Blabby's calm, her business still booms because we sure have problems on as the world zooms. for my trick today okay i have one two three ropes very good now all right now would you like to

examine these ropes very very closely very very closely good good good should you take a good look i hope so yeah okay now now check that does that does that look too long to you is there any Any other ropes in there? No. Okay. Put that back down. Now, we have one long, one medium. What are you going to do? One short. You'll see. Now, hocus pocus, presto, shazoom. I'm going to stretch these ropes. And with the powers of magic, I will stretch them. And now we have three long ropes. That's neat. How'd you do that? A magician never tells his secrets.

Oh, good morning, Mrs. Jackson. May I help you? Good morning, Mr. Jones. I'm looking for a new pet. Well, you've certainly come to the right place. How about a lovable little puppy? Nah, I want something more original. Hey, like that. What is it?

He's a genuine Crunch Bird. He's amazing. Watch what he does to my newspaper. Crunch Bird, my paper. He ate the whole thing. Crunch Bird, my pencil. Oh, he did it again. He's simply amazing. I'll take him. Oh, I just can't wait till George sees Crunchy. Crunchbird, my envelope. Oh, wow. Come on. Oh, my. I think I better get a checkup with Dr. Smith. I think I'm seeing things again. George, look what I brought home from the pet shop. A crunch bird. A what bird? A crunch bird. Crunch bird. Crunch bird my foot. Uh-oh. Ah! Ah! Maybe I should have got the dog.

Special idea? Yep. Wow. Write it yourself? Yep. Send it now. Send it where? Send it to Zoom. Send it to whom? Pose or thought or play? Whatever you've got. Take your time. A story or a game? You bet. A riddle. A feeling you've had. Now why don't you send it to Zoom? Whom? Name and address. A stamp? Yep. Can we have to say C2? Of course. Now why don't you send it to Zoom? Write Zoom, C-double-O-N, Fox, B-5-O, Boston, Mass, O-2-1-3-4. Send it to Zoom. Yeah! The sign said no fishing allowed. Could you tell me why you went ahead and fished anyway?

Didn't fish, sir. I was only trying to teach that worm how to swim. Teach your worm how to swim? Teach your worm how to swim. This year, we're celebrating America's 200th birthday. So Zoom asked several kids to make animated cartoons to show their feelings about our country. In our guest films today, we're going to see the cartoons and also how they were made. Here's the first. Hi, my name's Yelena Mikic. I was born in Yugoslavia, and then when I was one year old, my father and my family came over here because my father was going to get a job at MIT. and we liked it here so we decided to stay making an animated cartoon is

different from writing a story for me because I have to make artwork and the people move and I think there's a lot more complicated than making story after you finish doing your artwork the next thing you do is take it over to the camera and then film it I think that it's like a whole new world when you look through the lens of the camera and it really looks real every time that you click the camera one pictures being taken you have to click the camera 24 times to get just one second on the screen the smaller you move each time the better it's gonna end up looking I think that other people ought to have a chance to animate because I think that it's a neat thing and most people would like it how far out should she go we should be able to see her sad face in eyes and everything so she might you have to pull her down a little right there if i had one wish i'd wish that america was just like it was about 200 years ago all clean and nice so what's going

to happen in this scene how's the action going to go well they're going above their waist and their arms are going to move back and forth and so as they cut down the tree it's going to go underneath and then the tree is going to fall over and it's going to show the letters that are behind oh they're gonna pop on one by one all right then I think we're ready to start filming looks like this is the last tree to go here it comes timber ever since my poor friends the plants have been gone it's been awfully hard to breathe In Baltimore, Maryland today, the last tree in America was cut down. With no plants remaining to produce vital oxygen, panic drove people into robes to drive to the airport. Keep the door open!

I want my mommy! Meanwhile, across the country, a single plant survives. Oh, I love you so much. You're the last plant left in America. I'll take care of you. Hmm. Hmm. Oh! Wow! Looky! Look! Gee whiz! I found a plant! It's the only one left in America! I found a plant! See it? See it? See it in the window? I'm a hero! I'm a hero! Oh no! They found my beautiful plant! Ladies and gentlemen, earlier today in Kankakee, Illinois, a youth found a plant still alive in America. A delicate operation is now underway so that cuttings can be given to each state to propagate. New York. New York. Ohio. Ohio. Ta-da!

Yay! Ladies and jelly beans, good news. Americans can once again breathe freely with smaller families, fewer dwellings, and a room for plants to grow. Oh, I'm so glad those Americans gave us plants another chance to live. Now we can all breathe again. Ah, Mother Nature. You make water flow. You make trees grow. You give birth to a baby fawn. So why can't you mow the lawn? ma'am i couldn't help noticing yes sonny you look very happy that's because i am happy what's your secret for such a good life well i'll tell you i smoke a carton of cigarettes every two days i drink two six packs of beer every day i go every night and never come in before 2 a.m. I haven't had a bath since I was six years old, and I haven't seen the doctor for

a long, long time. And the last time I saw the dentist was in 1963, and the only thing I eat is potato chips and candy. The last time I changed these clothes was in 1967. That's incredible. And how old are you? Twenty-two. Hey, Andre, would you like to know how to make a present for a friend? Nope. Oh, come on. I was just kidding, sure. Okay, you can make paper flowers. And you can use tissue paper or cray paper for this. We're using tissue paper. What you do is you take a couple of layers of tissue paper and you put them down. Then you start folding them like a fan.

This is going to look nice. I hope so. I made a lot of these a long time ago, and I gave them to my mother. Yeah, they probably would look nice if you had the right color tissue paper or tray paper. Well, once you get to the end, you squish the middle in, and you take some wire, it can be green if you want a green stem. And you wrap it around it. Twist it right back. So far it looks like this. Then you take some scissors and cut round petals on them. On both ends. If you don't know what, you know, you don't have anything to do, you can make

these, lots of these. Then you spread it apart and you start peeling them off into the middle. This looks good. You can do any color you want, too. You've got to be careful because sometimes this kind of paper rips easily. I know that. You gotta be gentle. And at the end, it should look like this. See it? Yeah, it looks nice.

By the way... You won't hear, you lose your flower. Don't bother, the present's for you. Aw, thanks. My name is Darnell Lassiter. I'm 12 and a half years old. Making films makes me feel pretty good because you learn so much while you're enjoying it at the same time. You know all the artwork you put into it's worth it at the end. I think I like working with magic markers a little bit more than painting because with magic markers it's much neater but with painting if you really want a specific shade it's better to use watercolors you edge your characters to eliminate the white rim because on film it'll look more like a piece of paper than a real character if it's not edged

you make hinges for characters so that your characters will have places where they have movable parts just like human joints the process of hinging is not really hard but it just sort of takes a long time first you tape with masking tape a little piece of string on the leg and then leaving about a quarter of an inch of string then you tape it to the body with masking tape in order to make a character blink you have to make three different sets of eyes one that's open one that's half open and one that's completely closed and then when you're filming you alternate them every two frames from open to medium to closed to medium to open again once you've done this you've made a character blink once you need to make two separate other mouths besides this closed one you need to make one that's part way open and one that's all the way open and then you'll be able to alternate them when we're filming and it will make it look like she's talking opening and closing her mouth if i had to describe america to a person in another

country i think i'd have to tell them both the good things and the bad things about it because I think there are as many good things as bad things in it. Hmm. Dear... ...Kim. Oh, boy, Sharon invited me to America. Can't wait to go. Whoopee. Oh, boy, here comes Kim. Oh, boy, Kim's finally here. This is wonderful.

I'm so excited. Hi, Kim. Hi, Sharon. Welcome. I'm glad to be here. I can't wait to show you around. I think you'll like Cambridge. I will. The real paper to read it! Well, this is Harvard Square. It's kind of noisy, and there's always a lot of traffic and stuff. Oh, no, this place is great. All the nice people and interesting shops. Well, here's the Charles River. It's kind of polluted. Oh, but everybody's having so much fun, and it's such a nice day. It sure has been nice to have you here. I wasn't sure you were going to like Cambridge. Oh, I really liked it. You're silly not to think it's nice. You've let me see America from a different point of view. Goodbye, Kim. Goodbye, Sharon. Bye, Kim. I sure learned a lot from you. Bye, Kim. You've all heard a musical, Cheers.

Well, we don't have cheers, but we do have hats. I got it! I got it! No, Norman, you're out. You pulled it from my hand. Norman, you're out. You pulled it from my hand. Norman, you're out. It was like this, and he killed it. He had to take a hat anyway. All right, come on, let's go. Go ahead, little bit, little bit. Hit it! Come on, Red, beat him all up, Red. What the heck? Not in your own. All right, get it. Take the Russian hat. No, I like it. I like it. All right, get up here. Oh, that one was a good one. Okie dokie, Smokey. Ah, red's a good one.

Ok, hit it, fellas. Hit it! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! This music's going to tell you. Come on! Come on, Ruff! Come on, Ruff! Yes! Come on, go, wait! Ah! Ah! Go, go, go, go, go, go! I thought you were thinking of the cat.

Yeah, but you can't get it on. I know. Just touch your head. No! Yes! Ready, set, hit it! So you're a dentist, are you? Yes, Your Honor, I am. Do you swear to pull the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth? Yes, Your Honor. Hiya, Dane! You want to hear the latest?

Yeah, sure! Well, there's going to be a talent show next Saturday at the restaurant down the street. Oh, wow, a talent contest. I'm going to try it for the greatest in the whole country. And I shall make my specialty, upside-down cake. I'll invent something. A new trick for Locust to do. Good. And I'm gonna skate around the rink 478 times in two minutes, and I'm gonna set a new world record. I think I'll play a tune on my guitar, something to get the judges dancing. Well, I'm gonna show my special talent as the best manager in the world. i'm going to sing a song a nice romantic one i've got it i'll crack it safe if these old fingers are still in shape i'll astound them all when i dash to the phone booth to change into super clerk what's your talent blabby mine my talent is fooling people we're gonna fool i just fooled nine of my friends to believe it's gonna be a talent contest

I was just fooling. Maxie. Don't sleep. No. No. Sing me a song. Play your music. Do something. We're friends on 50 Elevator. I was just fooling. Maxie. Don't sleep. 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.