ZOOM, Series I; 325

Presentation of this program ismade possible in part by a grant fromGeneral Foods Corporation and by public television stations and a grant from the Ford Foundation. (drumroll plays) We're gonnaZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM-a, ZOOM Come on andZOOM-a, ZOOM-a, ZOOM-a, ZOOM Everybody's doing it Everybody's grooving it Everybody's having a ball, yeah So won't youZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM-a, ZOOM? Come on andZOOM-a, ZOOM-a, ZOOM-a, ZOOM I'm Mike. My name's Rose. I'm Hector. I'm Donna. I'm Timmy. My name's Shawn. I'm Danny. Who are you?

What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you, we need you So won't youZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM-a, ZOOM Come on andZOOM-a, ZOOM-a, ZOOM-a, ZOOM Come on, give it a try We're gonna show you just why We are going to teach you to fly high 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 Come on and ZOOM Come on and ZOOM, ZOOM, come onand ZOOM... ZOOM is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and The Corporationfor Public Broadcasting. TIMMY: Here are some games sent in byStefan McMillan of Glens Falls, New York.

It's a funny kind of race that we callMarble Toes. (Donna laughs) -You go for that bowl.-Okay. -TIMMY: All you can do is one at a time?-That's fine. -ROSE: Mark, get set, go.-(indistinct chatter) -One, two, three.-On your mark, get set. -On your mark, get set! Go! -Go! -Go! -Come on, Timmy!-Come on, Timmy! -Come on, Timmy!-Do it. TIMMY: So sweaty and sticky. (humming) (overlapping chatter, laughing) -Oh. That's two.-I know, Mike. -Bring back both of 'em.-Timmy. Timmy. Oh. You got as much as Timmy got. Timmy hasn't even got two in. -(overlapping chatter)-You got another one. That's it. Yeah. DANNY: It was right over here. What's the matter with you? -Nothing.-Yay! -Donna won.-(indistinct chatter) Once there was a man in an airplane. That's good. No, that's bad, because the airplane wasabout to crash. That's bad.

No, that's good, because the man hada parachute. That's good. No, that's bad because the parachute hada hole in it. -That's bad.-No, that's good, because there was a haystackunderneath the man. -That's good.-No, that's bad, because there was a needle inthe haystack. That's bad. No, that's good, because he missedthe needle. Oh, that's good. No, that's bad, because he missedthe haystack. (soft, crashing sounds) Well, you know. (laughs) I didn't write it. This week's guest is Timmy Cummings. He came to the studio to watch hisfilm with us. Bye, Mom.

TIMMY'S MOTHER: Bye, Tim. Seeyou later. TIMMY: Okay. See ya. (door closes) We're going to do a lab two thinkingcountdown. Billy, I'd like you to read it. Tim, you be the secretary, okay? Just close your books for a second andsee what you can do. My name is Timmy Cummings. I am blind. I have been since I was born. I can see the difference betweenlight and dark, and that's all, really. It wasn't until morning when you glanced intothe bathroom mirror to brush your teeth that you discovered you were completely bald. There wasn't a single hair on your head. What might have happened? Maybe he had one of those fakebald heads, and he put it... just put it over him. No. Don't stretch your head in here. Maybe the person was so bad that itpopped his hair off. -That was good, yeah. Yeah.-Maybe... he got a headache and... TIMMY: I go to regular public school. I've been going here for five years. I use a special braille typewriter towrite with.

Maybe... maybe he put his head nearthe vacuum cleaner, and it sucked all his hair out. (laughter) -Go! Go! Go! Go! (kids shouting) (shouting continues) TIMMY: When I first came to school, it was sort of hard, you know,'cause I had to adjust to the kids and thingslike that. But over the years, I've just made a lotof friends. -Who's next?-You are. We got to do it, Timmy. TIMMY: And, you know, they'reused to me, and I'm used to them. (overlapping shouting) That was fun. Let's do it again. You want to do it again? Have to waityour turn. TIMMY: I'm learning to travel by myself.

I go and walk with Mrs. Houghtononce a week. We just started going on walks the yearbefore last. Right. Straighten out. This is... I've written out the route that I'd like to do with you today,all right? This'll be the walk that we'regoing to take. So why don't you read it, and then we'llplan it together? All right, what's the starting point? The starting point is the school. All right, why don't you put one fingeron the schoolyard? Here's the school. And then locate the destination. -Have it?-TIMMY: Yes, right here. Okay. Good job. Wider arm on the left. TIMMY: What I'm doing when I'm ona walk is, I'm trying to keep the map in my mindthe whole time. It's hard, though, because there's a lotto think about. MRS. HOUGHTON: North on what street?

-TIMMY: Dartmouth.-Right. -Crossing what street first?-Princeton. MRS. HOUGHTON: Line up. Okay. You know, we don't want these toesover the curb, right? -TIMMY: Yeah, because...-What's gonna happen? Gonna go... -Ooh!-Okay, so, keep your feet back. Back. Right. So they're just right atthe curb, okay? And now, you're ready to make yourcrossing. When it's quiet, take off. Okay, when it's safe, -you can cross.-(vehicle engine revving) TIMMY: Crossing a street is reallytaking a risk. But you've got to learn to judgeand listen. MRS. HOUGHTON: Clear. TIMMY: Then, you've just got to do it. Okay, Timmy, where are we right now? We're on the northwest corner ofDartmouth and Broad. Fine. Okay. Really good job. How about the street crossings? -TIMMY: I think they were good.-They were excellent, Timmy. They're just going to take practice.

-Did you cross many streets?-Yeah. TIMMY: In our school, there are sevenblind kids. Jimmy Badge is a friend of mine who'sblind, too. I crossed Kingston Street, and I crossed Broad. Are you going on a walk today? -Oh, yeah.-Where are you going? I'm going to, um, Alex's. -Yeah.-The store, you know? Yeah. You got to be careful. The northwest corner of Harvard -and Main.-And Main. You got to be careful on Alex's 'cause cars just, you know, whiz by. I know. That's terrible 'cause that's a traffic lightintersection. Yeah, and-and you can't stay too closeto the curb. -I know.-'Cause once, I almost got off the curb, and you can't stay too close tothe um... um, side, 'cause remember the driveway, thisdriveway... Oh, yeah, you think that's the street. (distant shouting) TIMMY: A lot of times after school, I play with my brother Greg. People tend to pity and feel sorryfor blind people. But if they had a blind brother or sisterin their family,

they'd know that they wouldn't have to. I got it. I got it. Oh. Wait. Get me a longer stick. -A longer one?-Yeah. Okay. See if you can get it. I'll try again. -Okay.-Mom, I've got it. Pretty good. Get down. Get in. Go. Whoa. Let's go! Let's go! Put your feet up! Oh, boy! TIMMY: I'm not really sure what I want todo when I grow up. It's a hard decision to make. This time, give it all you've got. But I feel that if I like something and try hard at it, I can really getsomewhere. I think anybody can. That was a long way!

-What's your brother's name?-Greg. Oh, yeah, Greg. Did you see me fighting with him? -Yeah.-Yeah. He's a little wrestler, you know. Hecharged up. Aah! Aah! -He's a little stronger than you.-Yeah. When you were young, um, whatproblems did...? Did you have any problems that you hadto adjust to? Well, for one thing, you have to... My problems were orienting yourself. You have to learn to orient yourself to places like school and stufflike that. Like, in the first time, when I was firstin school, like, I had to, um... Someone had to go with me when I went up to Miss Fraleigh's room, and you have to... You know, it'sa problem... -Especially when you come in late.-...for me to orient... orient myself, but after a while, um, I get it all straightened out. So the orientation is better. So, like, after I live maybe in-- Idon't know-- a month or something, I mean, you getused to everything. -And I'd probably get used to...-DANNY: So, um,

you memorized where everything is, but ifyou moved, wouldn't it...? You'd have to start allover again? -Wouldn't it be hard?-I'd have to start all over again. That's right. I... I lived in a house in Scituate, and whenI came here, I... I have to start all over again. Now I'm fine in my new house, inthe house. HECTOR: Can you ride on a bicycle? -Yeah, I ride a bicycle.-Really? -In parking lots, like.-Oh. How do you do it without, like, crashinginto things? There isn't anything to crash into inparking lots, and... -Yeah, but the fact people...-You just drive around 'cause... -(indistinct chatter)-TIMMY: No. -I see the reflections of the things.-You do? Like, I said in the film that I sawlight, you know. -Yeah. Light and dark?-Light and dark. Yeah, when the light hits the middle... Lights are on, like, right now. Lights... I can see lights. Like, ifsomeone turns on a light, I know that there's a light on. If-- Say I'm coming to a pole. I see the reflection of the sun on it. Do you walk to school all by yourself? -No, I go in a car.-Go in a car? It's too far for me to walk. Do you ever take walks by yourself orsomething? -When?-Like, anytime.

-Like, just by yourself?-Oh, not with Mrs. Houghton? -Yeah.-Yeah, sometimes I do when I go home with Billy, and, like,sometimes, I go by myself. Once I did, but my mother was worriedabout me, so she sent my brother down to get me. Which ended in consequences, whichnot... can be mention... which cannot be mentioned on the air. -(laughter)-Mm. Do, do, do, do a ZOOM do, doa ZOOM do Do a ZOOM do. PAT KLIM: When you start an enamelproject, the first thing you'll need is a metalform of some sort. Copper fires faster, and I think it comes out ina better design. The first step is to make a stencil ofyour design. I usually work with my mother sometimes,

helping her clean dishes and helping her put on designs and firing them. But I usually work alone on my owndesigns. The best kind of colors I like to workwith is purples, greens, blues, oranges, yellows and reds, because they give out a nice effect on the copper to me. This is powdered enamel, which is reallypowdered glass. The first thing you need to do is toclean the dish really well so all the enamels will stick to it. You put it in an acid bath,

and then you rinse it in cold water. Then you scour it and rinse it again tillit's clean. (hissing) One thing that people don't realize is that you work just as hard on the back as you do on the inside of the dish. You have to strengthen the bottom to balance the weight of the enamel thatwill go inside. If you don't do that, it will warp whenyou fire it. First, you spread on gum base, which is liquid that they use ingumdrops. That makes the powdered enamel stick tothe surface. Once you finish doing the bottom,you're ready

to put your design on the inside. When you're moving your stencil, you'llhave to be careful that you don't goof up your design. If you make a really bad mistake you don't like, you can just dump it. You can just dump it off, and rinseoff the dish, and you can just start all over again. When you use bubbles, or glass chunks, glass will come out into big,colorful blobs. Once you put your dish into the kiln, it takes about three minutes to cook. The way you can tell, when your dishis fired, it will have the orange-peel skin look, a very dent-y look.

This dish came out pretty... pretty good, but the stars are a little too fat and a little bit too small. I don't know what I'm gonna use it for. I'll probably throw it out. If all camels and gorillas wereone thing, what a lovely cam-illa that would be. -Down, clap, snap, snap. Yeah.-Clap, clap, snap, snap. ALL: Down, clap, snap, snap. -Down, clap, snap, snap.-Then you, like, have to do a... Then you try to make a story. So, like... Two words. Like, -I went...-Yeah, you have to say two words, or one word with two syllables. All right, all right, good stuff. -Two sets.-Okay, you start, Shawn. Why don't...

You go... To the... Bathroom? -(laughter)-And there... You can... -Wash your...-Oh, good. Hands and... Clean them... So good... That they... Will shine. For now... Goodbye. That's all... There is. Thank you. Goodbye. And I... Will see... You... -(laughter)-Aah! That was a good game. Each week at this time, ZOOM invites you to... try it at home. Here's something you can try at home withan old pair of jeans. First, you put them inside out. Then, you lay 'em out.

And smooth them out so there aren't any more wrinkles. Then, with a large pair of scissors, you cut off the legs very straight, about right... here. And when you're done, it will looklike this. Now you have to sew the leg holes up. You use a needle and thread, or a sewing machine if you have one. You sew very straight, about a half an inch from where you cut. Now you turn the pants right side up. And here's your bag. Now, you'll need a handle. So, from one of the legs that you cut, you cut a strip, and it will looklike this. Now, you fold your strip in half... and sew a very, very straight seam acrossfrom that. Now you turn it right side out

so the good side is showing, like this. Now, all you to do is attach the handle to the sides of the bag so it will look like this. You can use it as a pocketbook, a bookbag or anything you want. Timmy Cummings, our ZOOM guest, canread braille, which is a kind of printing used bypeople who are blind. If you would like to learn braille, send a self-addressed, stamped envelopeto ZOOM... ...so we can send you a ZOOM card with the braille alphabet on it. TIMMY: Hey, a braille alphabet card. Let me look and see how nice they did it. Let me see. Ooh, it says... Let me see if they have the braillealphabet. A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Blah, blah, blah,blah, blah. X, Y, Z. Hey, what's this now? "This is... written in... braille. Can you read it?" -Yes, I can read it.-(laughter) SHAWN: Let's hope so. It says, uh... Hey, they have symbols. Number sign.

Um, eight. Eight. Three, two. How do you write in braille? You, um, use a slate, or a, um... braillewriter. This is a slate. See, that's a slate. And this is a stylus. -It's made out of aluminum, probably.-Yeah. Close your eyes, and you just rubyour fingers. People ask me, you know, "Well, what's itlike to be blind?" If anyone asks me that, I'm justgonna say, -"Well, close your eyes and find out."-Yeah. -There's your braille thing, over there.-Yeah. I'm writing your names now on a pieceof paper. -I put it in like this.-Mm. Uh, like this so it's against thislittle, like, crease, like. -Yeah.-And I move it up here. -And then, I...-Close it. I close that up. -Get it. There.-Oh. And it snaps. Now there's the paper. -Now, take my stylus.-Stylus?

And I will not write your names in order.I am sorry. I'll make a space after every name soyou can know. MIKE: So who is this now, whatyou're writing? -Timmy?-TIMMY: You're gonna have to see. DANNY: It's Timmy. Here are all your names. -On the other side, Mike.-It's on the other side, Mike. -Oh.-Yeah. Okay. Okay, the first one we have is who? Wait, so... -No.-Let's see. -And there's the "I" here.-"I." That one right there. And there's "M" here, and, like, that'sthe pause. So there's the "S," yeah. -'Cause of three, eight down there.-And "H." "H," yup. -"A."-Wait a minute. -Yup.-No way. You put "S," "H." How did you spell it? "S," "H," "O," "N." Oh, that's why.

SHAWN: "S," "H," "A," "W," "N." -Oh.-(overlapping chatter) That's why. -Eek!-(laughs) -MIKE: Timmy?-Yeah. MIKE: We have a braille letter here. -From who?-(laughs) From... -Doesn't say who it's from.-Maybe it's in braille. See if you can find out. Look, though. Okay. Listen to this. "Dear ZOOM, "I wrote this letter "because I thought a lot of... "...kids might be interested "in the braille alphabet. "I was thinking it might be a good idea "for a ZOOM... card. "Signed... Margaret Bradshaw." Brad... shaw. She must be blind, maybe. "P.S. I am not blind." (laughter) "But only..." Listen. "But only have a pen...

pen pal." Pen? Pen pal is blind. She has a pen pal that's blind. If I didn't come along and pop intoyour lives, no one would have... MIKE: Been able to read it. (whooshing) (intro to "Yellow Submarine" plays) In the town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarines So, we sailed on to the sun Till we found a sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine

A yellow submarine, a yellowsubmarine We all live in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine, a yellowsubmarine (overlapping chatter and shouting) Do it, Tim. All our friends are all aboard Many more of them live next door And the band begins to play Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey! (overlapping chatter) 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... (overlapping chatter) Hey, Cap! We all live in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine, a yellowsubmarine

We all live in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine, a yellowsubmarine MIKE: Close the hatches! DANNY: Roger, Captain. -MIKE: Prepare to submerge!-Roger, Captain. Take her down to 40,000 fathoms. 40,000 fathoms? But Captain... Do as I say, Mister. Up periscope. Roger, Captain. Oh, be careful of that whale! -What whale?-Up, starboard bow. That's no whale. That's my wife. -Could have guessed that.-Why didn't ya? -Uh...-Get to work. Come on. Come on. - As we live - As we live - A life of ease - A life of ease - Every one of us - Every one - Has all we need - Has all we need - Sky of blue - Sky of blue - And sea of green - Sea of green - In our yellow - In our yellow - Submarine - Submarine We all live in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine, a yellowsubmarine We all live in a yellow submarine

A yellow submarine, a yellowsubmarine We all live in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine, a yellowsubmarine... I got to go. Close the door, will you? Hey, uh, the door? Oh, yeah, don't forget to close the door. I got to run. Close the door. Hey, remember the door, please. Don't forget to close the door. ALL: Danny, close the door! Ah. We're gonnaZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM-a, ZOOM Come on andZOOM-a, ZOOM-a, ZOOM-a, ZOOM 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 andZOOM, ZOOM

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