ZOOM, Series I; 325

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. 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 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, come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, 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 and zoom, zoom Zoom is made possible by grants from McDonald's Corporation and McDonald's Restaurants Fund and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Here's a game sent in by Steffi McMillan of Glens Falls, New York. It's a funny kind of race that we call marbled toes. You go for that ball. On your mark, get set, go! On your mark, get set, go! Come on, Timmy! Come on, Timmy! Come on, Timmy! Too sweaty and sticky! a new mud. Bring back both of them.

Oh, you got as much as Timmy got, Timmy hasn't even got to him. Oh, we got another one. It was right over here. What about you? Oh, nothing. Hey! Don, I won! One, please! Once, there was a man in an airplane. That's good. No, that's bad, because the airplane was about to crash. That's bad. No, that's good because the man had a parachute. That's good. No, that's bad because the parachute had a hole in it. That's bad. No, that's good because there was a haystack underneath the man. That's good. No, that's bad because there was a needle in the haystack. That's bad. No, that's good because he missed the needle. Oh, that's good. No, that's bad because he missed the haystack. Well, you know, I didn't write it.

This week's guest is Timmy Cummings. He came to the studio to watch his film with us. Bye, Mom! Bye, Tim! See you later! Okay! See ya! We're going to do an elaborate thinking card now. Billy, I'd like you to read it. Tim, will you be the secretary, okay? Just close your books for a second and see what you can do with it. My name is Timmy Cummings. I am blind. I have been since I was born. I can see the difference between light and dark, and that's all, really. It wasn't until morning when you glanced into the bathroom mirror and you brushed your teeth that you discovered you were completely bald. There was a single hair on your head. What might have happened?

Maybe he had one of those fake bald hairs. Just put it over. No, you know his pressure had aches. Maybe the pressure was so bad that it popped his hair off. That was good, yeah. Maybe he got a headache. i go to a regular public school i've been going here for five years i use a special braille typewriter to write with maybe maybe he put his head near the vacuum cleaner and it sucked all this hair out when i first came to school it was sort of hard you know because i had to adjust to the kids and things like that but over the years i've just made a lot of friends who's next you are you Well, you know, they're used to me, and I'm used to them.

That was fun. Let's do it again. You wanna do it again? That's where you turn. I'm willing to travel by myself. I go on walks with Mrs. Houghton once a week. We just started going on walks the year before last. This is, I've written out the route that I'd like to do with you today. Alright, this will be the walk that we're going to take. So why don't you read it and then we'll plan it together. All right, what's the starting point?

The starting point is the school. All right, why don't you put one finger on the schoolyard? Here's the school. And then locate the destination. You have it? Yeah, it's right here. Okay, good job. What I'm doing when I'm on a walk is I'm trying to keep the map in my mind. the whole time. It's hard, though, because there's a lot to think about. North on what street? Dartmouth. Right. Crossing what street first? I know okay now you don't want these toes over the curb right yeah what's gonna happen okay so keep your feet back back right so they're just right at the curb okay and now you're ready to make it crossing when it's quiet take off

crossing a street is really taking a risk but you've got to learn to judge and listen then you've just got to do it to me where are we right now we're on the northwest corner of Dartmouth and Bowden fine okay really good job how about the street crossings I think they were good they were excellent Timmy they're just going to take practice to cross many streets yeah in our school there were seven blankets Jimmy Badge is a friend of mine who's blind too are you going on a walk today oh yeah where you go I'm going to Alex's yeah the store you know Yeah, you've got to be careful.

The northwest corner of Harvard and me. You've got to be careful on Alex's, because cars just, you know, whispers. I know, that's terrible, because that's a traffic light intersection. Yeah, and you can't stay too close to the curb. I know. Because once I almost got off the curb, you can't stay too close to the side, because remember the driveway? There's a driveway. Oh, yeah, and you think that's the street. A lot of times after school, I play with my brother, Greg. People tend to pity and feel sorry for blind people. But if they had a blind brother or sister in their family, they'd know that they wouldn't have to. I got it. I got it. Hold on. Wait. Give me a longer stick. A longer stick. You can see if you can get it. I'll try them. Good. Come on, let's have it. Good.

Sit down now. Get in. Go. Let's go, let's go. Put the feet up. i'm not really sure what i wanted to when i grow up it's a hard decision to make but i feel that if i like something and i try hard at it i can only get somewhere i think anybody can what's your brother's name greg oh yeah did you see me fighting with him yeah yeah he's a he's a little wrestler, you know, he charged up. When you were young, what problems did, did you have any problems that you had to 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 stuff like that. Like in the first time, when I was first in school, I, I had to, um, someone had to go with me when I went up to Ms. Frillig's room, and you have to, you know, it's a problem for me to orient myself, but after a while, I get it all straightened out, so the orientation is better, so like after I live maybe in, I don't know, a month or something, I mean, you get used to everything, and I'd probably get used to it. You memorized where everything is, but if you moved, wouldn't And you'd have to start all over again. I'd have to start all over again, that's right. I lived in a house in Stituate, and when I came here, I'd have to start all over again. Now I'm fine in my new house, in the house. Can you ride on a bicycle? Yeah, I ride a bicycle. Really?

In parking lots, like. Oh, how do you do it without, like, crashing into things? Two as many things to crash into in parking lots. You just drive around because it's so... i i see the reflections of the things like i said in the thing that i saw a light you know yeah light and dark yeah when the lights are on like right now lights i can see lights like if someone turns on a light i know that there's light on if say i'm coming to a pole i see the reflection of the sun on it do you walk the school by yourself no i go in a car go in a car it's too far from me to walk. Do you ever take walks by yourself or something? When? Like anytime. Like just by yourself. Oh, not with Mrs. Hilton? Yeah. Yeah, sometimes I do when I do for mobility. Like sometimes I go by myself. Once I did, my mother was worried about me, so she sent my brother down to get me. Which ended in consequences, which cannot be mentioned on the air. When you start an enamel project, the first thing you'll need is a metal form of some sort.

Copper fires faster, and I think it comes out in a better design. The first step is to make a stencil of your design. I usually work with my mother sometimes helping her cleaning dishes and helping her put on designs and firing them, but I usually work alone on my own designs. The best kind of colors I like to work with 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 really powdered glass. The first thing you need to do is to clean the dish really well so all the enamels will stick to it. You put it in an acid bath, and then you rinse it cold water, and then you scour it and rinse it again until it's clean. 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 that will go inside if you don't do that it'll warp when you fire it first you spray on gum base which is liquid that they use in gumdrops that makes the powdered enamel stick to the surface

Once you finish doing the bottom, you're ready to put your design on the inside. When you're moving your stencil, you'll have to be careful that you don't goof up your designs. If you make a really bad mistake you don't like, you can just dump it. You can just dump it off and rinse off the dish and just start all over again. When you use bubbles or glass chunks, glass will come up into big, colorful blobs. Once you put your dish into the can,

it takes about three minutes to cook. The way you can tell when your dish is fired you will have the orange peel skin look, a very denty 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 going to use it for, I'll probably throw it out. If all camels and gorillas were one thing, what a lovely Camilla that would be. Down, clap, snap, snap. Down, clap, snap, snap. And then you have to try to make a story. Two words.

Like as Sean said. I went. And I have to say two words on one word with two syllables. All right. All right. But it has to make sense, okay? You start, Sean. Why don't you go to the bathroom? And there you can wash your hands. 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. Each week at this time, Zoom invites you to try it at home. Here's something you can try at home with an old pair of jeans.

First, you put them inside out. Then, you lay them 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 look like 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 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 look like this now you fold your strip in half and sew a very very

straight seam across from that now you turn it right side out so the good side is showing like this now all you 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 book bag or anything you want. If all horses and radishes were one thing, what a lovely horseradish that would be. Timmy Cummings, our Zoom guest, can read Braille, which is a kind of printing used by people who are blind. If you would like to learn Braille, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134, so we can send you a Zoom card with the Braille alphabet on it. 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 Braille alphabet. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, G, G, G, G, G, B, B, B, B, B. What's this now? This is written in Braille. Can you read it? Yes, I can read it. It says, hey, they have symbols. number sign eight you um use a slate or a braille writer this is a slate see that's a slate and this is the stylus it's made out of aluminum probably yeah close your eyes and read this with your fingers people ask me you know well what's it like to be blind if anyone asked me that i'm just gonna say well close your eyes and find out i'm writing your names now on a piece of paper i put it in like this like this so it's against this like crease like yeah and i move it up here and then i close it

I should close that up. Get her. There. And it snaps. Now there's the paper. Now, take my stylus. And I will not write your names in order. I am sorry. I'll make a space after every name so you can know. So who's this now? Timmy. You're going to have to see. It's Timmy. Get out all of your names. Oh, I got it on the other side, Mike. It's on the other side, Mike. Okay. Okay, the first one we have is who? No. A thumb. And there's the I here. Double right there. And there's M, yep. And that's the pause. So there's the S, yep.

And H. H, yep, A, wait a minute, yep, no, wait a minute, hold on, you put S-H, how'd you spell it, S-H-O-N, oh, that's what, S-H-A-W-N, it's A, S-H-A-W-N, that's hard, Eek, Timmy, yeah, we have a braille letter here, from who, from, doesn't say who it's from, Maybe it's in Braille. See if you can find out who it's wrong. 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

She must be blind, maybe P.S. I am not blind But only... Listen But only have a pen... Pen pal Pen pal is blind she has a pen pal to find if i hadn't come along and popped into your lives no one would have been able to read it in the town where i was born And he told us of his life in the hand of the submarine. So we sailed out to the side till we found the sea of green. And we lived beneath the waves in a yellow submarine.

We are living in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, A yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine A yellow submarine All our friends are all aboard Many more of them are next door And the band begins to play Hey, hey, hey, hey. We are living a yellow submarine

A yellow submarine A yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine A yellow submarine Close the hatches! Roger, Captain! Prepare to submerge! Roger, Captain! Think it down to 40,000 fathoms! 40,000 fathoms, Captain! Do as I say, Mr. Upmerousco! Roger, Captain! Have you given up on that wheel? What wheel? What's not on the wheel? That's no wheel, that's my wife! I'm going to guess that. Why didn't you? Uh, get to work. Come on. Come on. As we live. As we live. The life of me. Life of me. Everyone. Everyone. That's all we need. That's all we need. Sky and blue. Sky and blue. And we are free. Sea of free. N.I.L. N.I.L. Submarine. Submarine. We are living. A.L. Submarine.

A.L. Submarine. A.L. Submarine. We are living in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine A yellow submarine We are living in a yellow submarine A yellow submarine A yellow submarine I gotta go, close the door, will ya? Hey, other door? Oh yeah, don't forget to close the door I gotta run, close the door Hey, remember the door, please? Don't forget to close the door. 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.