ZOOM, Series I; 610

Zoom number 610, WGBH-TV, Boston. 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 going to 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. I'm Amy. I'm John. I'm Carolyn. I'm Nicholas. I'm Shana. I'm Chase. I'm Susan. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-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, zoom Come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom Some games you can play when you're stuck indoors. Try Bill's Eye. Take a glass bowl and trace the bottom of it. Then draw rings inside of it. And then draw a point. Then, take your bowl, put it on, and pour water in it. Then, take some coins, stand back a few feet, and see how many points you can get by throwing them in.

Seventy-five. Missed. Like bowling! All you need is ten paper cups, like this. Four, three, two, one. Then you roll the ball. Mine's called Monsters. Sometimes when I lie in bed, foolish things go through my head. Strange noises in the night and fill my empty head with fright. Giant monsters ten feet tall chase me through the empty hall. Then I see the morning light and everything is dynamite. My imagination. My imagination can do many wonderful things. It can put me in any time or place. It could be winning an Olympic medal

or winning that important race. I can use it wherever I am, in school or in my room. I can use it to write a term paper or an idea for Zoom. So I'm glad I have an imagination. It makes a boring hour fun. It can let me ski in Switzerland or put me in Hawaii in the roasting sun. That was good. Here's one about skating. I really love to skate. Yet I have never done it before. I don't know if I'm great or if I'll hit the floor. But I won't know until I try. Yet I know I'll just die. If I ever fall down, I know I'll be a clown. I think I'm going to try it. But first, I'm going on a diet. I get that. You got a poem.

You got a play. Hey, 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 for 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 meet it with cheer. 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-O-M, Fox, 3-5-O, Boston, Mass, O-2-1-3-4, send it to Zoom! Try the carrot drop. This game is called Carrot Drop. You have a headband with a string attached to it,

and at the other end of the string is a carrot, which hands horizontally. You try to get the carrot into the glass bottle without using your hands. Swing, hit, swing. I was born with cystic fibrosis it's a lung disease and I will have it all my life i may die from it i'm not sure of that my younger sister ann marie has cf also hi guys it's not how you doing oh no it's like a disaster wait a minute oh here it goes okay cystic fibrosis

it's not easily seen by people oh john your string just broke oh you're kidding that's kind of an advantage in a way but it can also be a disadvantage is that when people do notice that you're coughing and that you have stained teeth or the fact that I'm thin you can kind of feel they're wondering sometimes and don't want to bring it up the young adult group is really just grown into a group of just friends who come meet together now and talk about problems or just talk about anything don't you brush your teeth and why are your teeth all dirty everyone was teasing me and couldn't stand that so i just got them all capped just on the four front ones is

that right why were they all dirty um tetracycline yeah you mean the medicine you had to take it turns your teeth brown yeah how many pills do you have to take a day 120 you take 120 pills a day No, 150. See, 50 for breakfast, 40 vile case, 10 hours off. That's a breakfast in the room. What would happen if you didn't take them? Oh, I found that out today. Did you get stomachache or what? Boy, I didn't even go to trap practice. I laid down. I mean, this is stuff you have to take to help adjust your food? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let me advise you, always take your pills. Yeah, let's go! Let's go! Through the hospital, ran some of the people in the CF Young Adult Group.

we started camping at a place called LaHonda. With some of my friends who have cystic fibrosis, I feel a lot closer to you. A lot of the people I know have been in the hospital with, and I know how they live from minute to minute. Anybody else for some hot chocolate or some coffee? I'll take them. All right. Watch this. I'll be in front of my coat there. Oh, and G.M. Hey, Mark, meet me. Hey, yeah, who's doing the dishes today? Hey, I did it last night. John, you were coming to us last night, even though you didn't do any work. Yeah. I worked last night. I kept you guys company. The only thing that we have to do at camp is doing the treatments.

In 12 different positions, I am pounded on to loosen up the mucus which grows in my lungs. It's a chore, but it's just a great feeling to be out in the country like that and doing your treatments on each other. I do a lot of gardening I really enjoy that and it's just neat to know that you can grow things and you have some control of what happens and all just that you're doing something from the earth and something natural every time it's kind of a challenge to see if this year I can make this my best garden okay take a deep breath in put your mouth in there and push push push push push push use your shoulders and your stomach you got more john's a deep breath in okay it's just over two thousand just over two thousand i gotta go a lot better than that

when i start coughing in class people tell me to be quiet people they well first they ask me if i have a cold i say no and then they say do you have asthma and i say i have something sort of like that well when i cough like well sometimes they ask does something matter and i'll say oh like my lungs are just a little bit worse than yours and they say well is it really contagious back away and I was like no it's just it like you have to be born with it and you take medicine you do therapy and stuff. When I was little I can remember times I'd really be upset when I came home because someone had made a comment about my teeth or something or the fact that I coughed and if you just kind of let those things pass I found it's a lot easier. it's a responsibility now that i do try to keep myself in the best health this year i started bicycling in hopes that it would help improve my lung capacity and my eventual goal is to be up to

about eight miles per day. On your mark, get set, go! All right, come on! Cystic fibrosis is part of my life, but it's not my whole life. It's not me. It's not going to rule me, either. I have a lot of things I want to do, and it's just one of the things I have to contend with in order to do the things I want to do. Do the ball catch. Take a plastic container like this and cut out the bottom of it. You might want an adult to help you. Then take a ball like this and tie about a four-foot string on it like this. Make sure it's tight so the ball won't come off. Then do the same thing with your other end of the string.

Tie it on to your container. You also want to make this one tight, so it won't come off. Now, you swing the ball and try to catch it in the container as many times in a row as you can. One. This is a diver in a bottle. By pushing on the top, you can make it go down and up. Now I'm going to show you how to make one. all you do is put some water in this bottle to the tippity top then you take your small bottle you can use any bottle and you can decorate if you want to looks better in the bottle then you fill with some water until it floats on the surface

After you do that, all you have to do is stick this bottle into this glass bottle, then you take your rubber glove and you put it over the top and take your rubber band and put it over so you secure it. You got to make it perfect so no air goes out. Use two roller bands so it works better. Then you have it. When you push down, it goes down. Let's see. When you let go, it goes up.

It's fun. You should try it. Why not paper sauce? Each player gets one piece of newspaper. Now try to get the newspaper crunched up in your hand. But you can only use one hand. Are you ready? Ready. On your mark. It's it. Go. No, you're cheating. No, look over there. Well, what can I do for you, young lady? Well, how much is 13 pounds of coffee at 89 cents a pound, 29 pounds of sugar at 22 cents a pound,

5 pounds of tea at 15 cents a pound, two 8-pound hands at 83 cents a pound, and 5,000 jars of pickles at 21 cents a jar? Oh. Is that all? Yeah. That's quite in order. Let's see. It comes to exactly... Forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. Do you have the money or would your mother like me to charge you? Neither. That was my homework. Thanks for doing it. Bye! Michael Matusan of Middleburg Heights, Ohio, made this film when he was 12 years old. It's called The Tale of the Boastful Man. One day, a very poor man was working in his garden. He found the root and pulled on it. It came out of the ground and pulled down the whole tree with it.

The man was amazed. He proudly put a sign outside his door saying, I can do anything. People didn't believe him, so they bet him money that he couldn't do things. A woman bet him that he couldn't lift his hay wagon, but he did. So she paid him. The man began to build up quite a fortune from these bets. He went around boasting about what he could do and went on winning lots of money. One day, a little boy bet him all his money that he could not add two and two to get the right answer. The man tried all day, but he couldn't do it. You see, when he was younger, he had quit school. The boy won all the money, and he took it home to pay for his college education. The man changed his sign.

The new one said, I can't do everything. The man stopped boasting, and he went back to making his garden grow. Indoor games are fun to play. If you want a Zoom card, write to Zoom. At Zoom, Z-L-O-M, Fox, 3-5-0, Boston, Mass, 0-2-1-3-4. Send it to Zoom! Don't forget your safety. Don't forget your safety. Dear Zoom, you know, I really feel rotten when I'm sick and I have to stay in bed. I can't do all the things I'd like to do with my friends. Would you have a rap about being sick?

Suppose you had some disease that wouldn't go away. How would you feel? What could you do? Yours truly, Robin Konigsberg from Fayetteville, North Carolina. Oh, being sick, oh, that's the worst thing in the world. I know, it's terrible. Oh, I hate it, especially when I have a cold. At night when you try to go to sleep, you can't because you can't breathe. Yeah, I have a cold right now. Stuff like that. Or when you're going somewhere over the weekend and you get sick and you can't go, oh, you feel terrible. Like my asthma, for instance, I get a lot of colds with my asthma and it makes me feel so miserable. You like the disease, like you think you have a disease and it'll never go away. Like asthma, you think it'll never go away. It's really not nice being good being sick because it makes you feel like you're some kind of freak and being sick and everybody has to be sorry for you. I don't think they should have to be all that sorry for you. You get along fine, don't you?

Yeah, you pretty much do. But, like, still, you still need people to help you when you get sick. You can't manage all on your own. It's still good to have people around you, but you don't want people feeling, like, bad for you or sad for you. No, when you get sick, it seems like the funniest thing. Sometimes you don't feel that bad. Sometimes you like being sick because you get a lot of attention and stuff like that, you know. like but you wonder if you stay home I have to stay home stay in bed and I can't go outside and play my play with my friend but I get a lot of tension and a lot of food and I'm not checking soup and all that kind of stuff like that I feel sort of bad because two years in him for this rap and he got sick and he probably feels the same way you know like he wants to be here and like he probably feels that um like we couldn't do some things without him because he wasn't him and you know that makes him kind of feel bad even though he's sick he's probably watching it and saying why are they feeling so sorry for me that much i never realized i care

that much mentioning my name and all of course we care that's what happens to me all the time i people start um taking care of me and everything and i say oh i didn't know they cared that much but when somebody else gets sick and you're sort of taking care of them and feeling sorry for them you feel, you know, you don't feel like you're, you know, being sorry for them. You're just taking care of them because you love them. And you don't want nothing bad to happen to them. Right. A unicorn is one of those new German sports cars.

It's a 5-cylinders. No, it's a new German sports car with 5 cylinders, 50 miles per gallon. It's a circuit. Wait a minute, wait a minute. What is a unicorn? A unicorn? Well, I think it's one of those big long things that comes out of a, it's in a myth. I guess it's some animal with the horn on top of his head. A unicorn? It's something that you put fruit and everything in for Thanksgiving. It's a mythological horse and it has a horn in his head, right in the middle of his head. A horse with the horns in his nose. A unicorn is a horse with a horn on its forehead that doesn't exist anymore. A unicorn is a horse, a legendary horse, which has one large spike on its forehead, a spiral spike. It was used in Greek and Roman mythology. Susan, come on!

Alright, I'm coming. You do the dishes. I'm not doing the dishes. I'm not doing the dishes. Your turn. All right. A long time ago, when the earth was green, there were more kinds of animals than you've ever seen. They'd run around free while the earth was being born, and the loveliest of all was the unicorn the green alligators and all their geese some humpty back camels and chimpanzees some cats and rats and elephants but sure as you're born the loveliest of all was the unicorn Now God sees him sitting and it gave him pain And he says, stand back, I'm going to make it free He said, hey, Brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do

Build me a floating zoo And take some of those green alligators and long neckies Some Humpty Back Camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and bats and elephants, but sure that you're born Don't you forget my unicorn Old Noah was there to answer the call He finished making the ark just as the rain started to fall He marched in the animals two by two And called out as they went boo Hey lord, I gotcha green alligators and long neck geese Some lofty bad camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants But Lord, I'm so forlorn I just can't see no unicorns Then Noah looked out through the driving rain

Those unicorns were hiding, playing silly games Kicking up and splashing while the rain was pouring down Oh, those silly unicorns. There were green alligators along their feet. Some Humpty Bat Camels and some chimpanzees. Noah cried, close the door, cause the rain is falling down. And we just can't wait for no unicorns. The ark started moving. It drifted with the tide. Those unicorns looked up from the rocks and they cried. And the waters came down and sort of floated them away. And that's why you've never seen a unicorn until this very day. You'll see green alligators and long-necked geese. Some up-dee-backed animals and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born, you're never gonna see no unicorn.

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You can help us to fly Come on and zoom, come on and 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 Bureau of Education for the Handicapped.