ZOOM, Series I; 339

Zoom number 339, WGBH-TV, Boston. Presentation of this program is made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations and a grant from the Ford Foundation. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on in, zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom Everybody's doing it, everybody's pooping it Everybody's having a ball, yeah So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on in, zoom-a-zoom, zoom-a-zoom I'm Mike

My name's Moe's I'm Hector I'm Donna. I'm Timmy. My name's Sean. I'm Dini. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Nothing from you. We need you. So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom? Zoom is made possible by grants from

mcdonald's corporation and mcdonald's restaurants fund and the corporation for public broadcasting this is a race where each player has to carry five balls without using his hands It's a five-bar relay. On your mark, get set. You ready to show up? Go. Come on, baby. Come on, John. You're kind of making noises. Like a woozy horse. Go, come on out there. Come on, get it. Come on, go. Get it. Go out there. Not too long ago, John Carroll of River Forest, Illinois, sent in a poem that we really liked. Our music director did too, so he took John's words and made them into a song called Flying.

What I would do if I could fly What I would do if I could fly What I would do if I could fly I would fly over houses over cities fast higher than airplanes and faster than lightning brighter than the sun faster than you run you would see me fly I would fly with a rocket right straight to the moon except it would be quiet

not very loud and a very little breeze The birds would just touch the clouds But a day the birds would sing noisily The trees would hum fazily And the cats would hum softly I'd pick a leaf and make some bean But save it for my mom I'd fly so high you couldn't see me Fly so far you couldn't see me But then I'd come back to see you And then I'd leave and go my way But I would come back someday We'll be right back. So try to fly very high on a summer's day in May, try to fly very high on a summer's day in May.

What I would do if I could fly What I would do if I could fly What I would do if I could fly What I would do if I could fly All right. Now, here's a trick, right? Now you... Oh, there you go. Right. You're gonna try to get all the cups facing the same way, like that, or like that. like a puzzle like yeah all right but you have three turns and you got to move two cups at a time like move it up and down it's easy just go like this one two you have to move two cups at a Yeah.

Three times. See? Now you get them. Two cups of them. Sean. I got it. Hang. Hang. Hang. Hang. Hang. Hang. Hang. again my name is audrey and um this is my dog francis i um come from boston and i live right in the middle and so um it's hard to keep a dog How I got Francis is one day I was um both my pets died and so um I got a crazy idea that maybe dad would let me get a dog and when I asked him asked him he said um well I think you can take the

responsibilities but um do you know how many there are i said well yeah you gotta feed her and walk her he said elsa you gotta clean her up and wash her and things like that and i go well i think i can take the responsibilities anyway um we went to the animal rescue league and we looked around for a dog. Frances was with a whole litter, about six puppies, and she was the last one left. I really liked her colors. It looked like somebody had spilled a whole bucket of paint on top of her. Anyway, I had called up Dad and asked him if I could get her. And he said, well, I guess since you've already fell in love with her, you can have her. Good. Good.

Hey! Hey! I have to feed and walk Frances every day. It's really sort of a war, but you have to do it, otherwise she gets really hungry. It's like your father or your mother not giving you food every day. Frances, come here! Come here! Down. Since we live in the city, I have to train Frances because it's just a crowded place and she can't go running after another dog or, you know, running across the street and getting kicked by a car. So she really has to be obedient. No, Frances. My father, for Christmas, gave me some training lessons to train Francis and me, sort of.

Every time you go there, you learn a new lesson, and, you know, it's really a sort of fun thing. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Okay, we're gonna go through our review then of the past lessons. So, if we're all ready, get your dogs in heel position. We're going this way around the room. Okay, all together, handless forward. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. Heel. All right, the new lesson tonight is going to be teaching the dog to come to you.

the recall stack your dogs out at heel position and the sit stay bow stay go out to the end of the leash bow come good boy bow sit atta boy good boy okay just be prepared not to let him go by all right you go ahead and try it it's really important for a master as much as that dog to to learn how to be trained because the master has to have patience and also to know that the dog has problems. Princess, come here, come here. Princess, sit. Good doggy, good doggy. Good doggy. Come here, princess, come here. Come here, princess.

Um, you really, um, I, sometimes after school, I usually, um, do my homework up here, and, um, with Frances, and after that, I usually, I sometimes bring her down to the river or the Esplanade, and, um, she really enjoys it there, because I can let her run free. Hey! Whoa! Yeah! Hey! Let us go! Go! Go! zoom phenomenon what's a zoom phenomenon hang on you'll see okay okay watch this this is an incredible balancing trick what you need is a ruler now what you need a loop of string

and a hammer what you do okay you take your ruler right put it halfway off the table yeah more than half yeah about five no no six five inches put the loop of string through there yeah hold it there the loop of string through the hammer through the ruler go ahead there hold it hold it oh bad no visible means of support no wow cool easy come easy go here's a story written and illustrated by stephanie habel of napa california and it's called if kids ran the hospital if kids ran the hospital

glucose bottles would be filled with strawberry milkshakes wheelchairs would be go-karts x-rays would be Saturday morning cartoons doctors would be pro football players and nurses would be hula dancers aren't the doctors glad this isn't true the kids aren't I started building model airplanes about three and a half years ago. I got into it by asking around hobby shops and going to flying fields where people fly the outdoor models.

I built quite a few of these models, and then about a year ago, I got involved in a completely different kind of modeling, which is building and flying indoor models. With the indoor models, you have to build them almost all yourself. This helicopter has been streamlined down to the essential parts, the fuselage or body, and two propellers. Eventually, what you're aiming for is a model that's absolutely as light as possible. like the body is not a solid one it's a hollow tube made of balsa that's about 15 thousandths of an inch thick you wet it and then you can bend it very easily you take a tube the right size and roll it up then bake it in an oven then when you take it out the balsa holds that same shape and stays in a tube so all you have to do is glue the edge together with indoor models most of the time you spend is really building it so you have to really commit yourself to

your work even when you're concentrating fully you can accidentally move your hand a little bit too far and wipe out a bunch of wood that you'd cut up One of the challenging things about indoor models is that you're always experimenting. You never really have a model trimmed out to its ultimate. To make these propellers as light as possible, they're covered with a practically invisible weightless material called microfilm to pull a good sheet of film you've got to work quickly before the solution starts to shrink on the surface of the

water this is the first microfilm model I've ever made and I'm really surprised how well it came out is the first attempt because this stuff is really hard to work with The one thing that's not very good to start with, in covering with microfilm especially, is covering propellers because they have many different curves on them going in all sorts of different directions and it's hard to get the microfilm to seat down correctly in all the directions. This material is extremely light and fragile.

If you're not careful, you can sneeze on a model and all the covering will go flying away in different directions in spite of the trouble you've got to go through making it Microfilm's a real advantage because it adds next to no weight to your model. The rubber loop, which is used to power this model, gets 1,500 or more twists, which would be fairly hard to do by hand. That's why I use a special winder. Well, you're going to snap that finger, too. Nope. It's meant to take this many lines.

You're so sure of yourself. Oh, come on. This is going to fly. One of the big advantages of flying indoors is that it is almost like your own little laboratory. If you're working on a specific record or something, you can keep track of what you're doing each day. After spending a lot of time on a model, you're always hoping it'll pay off with a good flight. But just the same, a good part of the satisfaction you get out of making these things is just the fact that you've built them yourself. It's time to roll out the barrel. Here's a barrel sent in by C.L. Henry of Vandover, Mass. Dear Zoom, here's something you all can try. Stand up with your arms straight out to your side. Then close your eyes.

Point both of your index fingers out. Without peeking, try touching your fingers. Good luck. What? And to find out what's inside today. I can feel it. I can feel it. Not squinting. Oh, God. I missed. Hey, guys. I missed. Why, you're so funny. A little bit. Down, down, down. Right down. A little bit. Yeah, right there. Up, up. Put your left up. Left up, left up, left up. Right there. I'm squinting. Go, go, go. It's for you, it's for you, it's for you! Oh, yay! Yay! Go ahead, Sean. Come together.

Oh! Oh, shockings! We're just letting them move. That's two! We just smashed into a knuckle. One more, one more, one more. Why don't you try it until you get it? Slow, slow, slow, slow down. Put your left down, left down. Left down. Try it again, Sean. Each week at this time, Zoom invites you to try it at home. Did you know that you can make beautiful art with just some washable ink, some straws, or some string, and a piece of paper? Watch. Good. Lost back.

Let's see, Sean. Oh, bad. Look at Sean. Oh, wow. That's nice. Beautiful. I like that, too. Oh, that's beautiful. Can I, can I, can I just, where's the black? Oh. Oh. Look out for your leg, Hector, make it so much better. Oh. Get off the second, Hector, I gotta pull the leg back together. Oh, okay. Oh. Yeah. Well, how long does he leave it there? I don't know. Let's say around three or four minutes.

Oh, that looks nice, Sean. Oh, wow. That's nice. I like yours. This is our last new show of the year. This summer, we'll be rerunning some of your favorite Zoom shows. We had a lot of fun this year, but we never could have done it without your ideas. Next year, there's going to be a whole group of new Zoomers, and they're going to need your help, too. So why don't you sit down and write a play or a skit? Or send in a great game or battle.

Or maybe you have an idea for some new things to do on the show. But we won't know about them unless you send them to Zoom. You ought to know the address by now. Write Zoom. Box 350. Boston, Mass. 0-2-1-3-4. Everybody's doing a brand new dance now Come on, baby, do the locomotion I know you get to like it if you give it a chance now Come on, baby, do the locomotion My little baby sister can do it with ease It's easier than learning your ABCs So come on, come on, do the locomotion with me You gotta swing your hips now

Come on, baby, jump up, jump back Well, I think you got the next Whoa, whoa, now that you can do it, let's make a chain now Come on, baby, do the locomotion Chug-a-chug-a-motion like a railroad train now Come on, baby, do the locomotion Do it nice and easy now, don't lose control A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul So come on, come on, do the locomotion with me Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, move around the floor in a locomotion Come on, baby, do the locomotion Do it holding hands and you get the notion Come on, baby, do the locomotion There's never been a dance that's so easy to do Can't even make you happy when you're feeling blue

So come on, come on, do the locomotion with me Come on, you gotta swing your hands now Come on, that's right, you're doing fine Come on, do the locomotion Come on, baby, come on, to the locomotion Come on, talk back to the locomotion Well, I think you've got the name Come on, baby, do the locomotion Come on, baby, do the locomotion Come on, baby, do the locomotion Come on, baby, do it Come on, baby, do the locomotion Come on, baby, do the locomotion Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why We're gonna teach you to fly Hey! Come on, baby, do the locomotion Come on, baby, do the locomotion Come on, baby, do the locomotion Thank you.

Thank you. Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund

and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Presentation of this program was made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations and a grant from the Ford Foundation.