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Season 1 (1983-1984)
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00:00Reading Rainbow is made possible by funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by a grant from Kellogg's who reminds you to take time each day for reading.
01:00I can be anything.
01:04Take a look.
01:06It's in a book.
01:08A reading rainbow.
01:10A reading rainbow.
01:12A reading rainbow.
01:16A reading rainbow.
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01:42A reading rainbow.
01:44A reading rainbow.
01:46A reading rainbow.
01:48A reading rainbow.
01:49A readingenas reading英 smarts do not look like something to eat.
01:50Oh, gimme a break.
01:51It's obviously a face.
01:52Eight sayings the nose on my face.
01:54It's a piece of wings.
01:55Hey, wait a second.
01:57Let's take another look at this.
01:59The way I see it.
02:00It's two balloons, plain catch.
02:02See?
02:03It all depends on how you look at it.
02:06That's not my point of view.
02:07You'd have to be really stretching it to think it's a nose.
02:10But what I see is a nose.
02:13Since we don't see eye to eye, let's take a look at another riddle.
02:16Okay.
02:19This one's easy.
02:21Sure, not bad.
02:22Yeah, anybody can see that's a closed eyelid.
02:24A closed what?
02:26Uh-uh.
02:27From my point of view, it's a somersaulting caterpillar.
02:29No, no, no, no.
02:30Look at it this way.
02:31It's the entrance to a tunnel.
02:33Huh?
02:34No, no, no.
02:35Look again.
02:36It's the sun passing by a window.
02:38Unbelievable.
02:39How come you guys can't see what's in front of you?
02:42Eye checkups.
02:43Look at this.
02:46Maybe we can see eyeball to eyeball this time.
02:50Now, from my point of view, it's really a wild hairdo.
02:53Kind of a bright red afro.
02:56No way, man.
02:57Anybody can see that's the letter C.
02:59No, let me show you.
03:01It's a dripping drop of water.
03:03Purple water.
03:04Purple water?
03:06No, look at it this way.
03:08It's a rolling hot dog.
03:10A red collar.
03:11A half-eaten cherry lifesaver.
03:13A worm that's just been tickled.
03:15A clown smiling.
03:16A red nose warmer for a purple nose.
03:19Yeah, I see what you mean.
03:21Take another look at this.
03:22We're all right.
03:24It all depends on how you look at it.
03:30The riddles you just saw are from this.
03:32The turnabout, thinkabout, lookabout book.
03:35And there are lots more in here.
03:37These are riddles for your eyes instead of your ears.
03:40And the more you turn the book, the more there is to see.
03:44The artist who drew the picture shows four ways of looking at the same thing.
03:49But there are probably 4,000, 4 million, as many of you as are watching right now.
03:55That's because we all see things in different ways.
03:58Our own special ways.
04:00We also have our own unique ways of hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.
04:07That's why I love coming to the Farmer's Bazaar, where I'm surrounded by all the colors of the rainbow.
04:12And as many textures and sweet-smelling aromas as there are fruits and vegetables here.
04:22Everybody loves to try their own hand and using their senses to discover the juiciest, ripest, and the most delicious of the market's pick.
04:30These are some of my best bets for today's tastiest treats.
04:36What do you think this is?
04:38The burning hot surface of the sun?
04:41A sponge?
04:44No.
04:45It's an orange.
04:48And how about this?
04:51Green coral?
04:53Seeds?
04:54Of course not.
04:56It's broccoli.
04:57And what do you suppose this is?
05:03A moon crater?
05:05A dried-up riverbed?
05:08Not at all.
05:09It's a potato.
05:12Let's try another one.
05:15This could be lizard skin
05:16or a leaf.
05:19But it's not.
05:21It's an onion.
05:22You've been looking through a very special camera lens that lets you see ordinary things,
05:30things you've looked at almost every day of your life, in a brand new way.
05:33I'm sure you know lots of people who use special lenses to see all the time.
05:38Arthur could really tell you the importance of wearing glasses if you need them.
05:42He found out the hard way.
05:43And that's what this book, Arthur's Eyes, is all about.
06:00Arthur's Eyes.
06:02Story and Pictures by Mark Brown
06:06This is Arthur before he got glasses.
06:14He looked fine, but he couldn't see very well.
06:18And sometimes he got headaches.
06:23Arthur had to hold his book so close that his nose got in the way.
06:28He couldn't see the board.
06:29Francine had to read Arthur the problems.
06:35Are you blind?
06:37She always asked.
06:38Francine got every problem right.
06:41Arthur didn't.
06:44No one wanted to play with Arthur.
06:50You are so great.
06:56Arthur's father and mother took him to the optometrist.
06:59Dr. Iris tested Arthur's eyes.
07:02You need glasses, said Dr. Iris.
07:08Arthur tried on all kinds of frames.
07:11He chose the ones he liked best.
07:13You look very handsome in your new glasses, said his father.
07:18Everything looks clearer, said Arthur.
07:22His mother told him he looked very smart.
07:26But the next morning, his friends laughed at him.
07:33Francine called him four eyes.
07:36Sissy, shouted Buster.
07:40None of Arthur's friends wore glasses.
07:45No one in his family wore glasses either.
07:49Arthur felt awful.
07:53He didn't care if he could see.
07:55He didn't want to be called four eyes.
07:58Arthur decided he would lose his glasses.
08:01Arthur put his shirt in the laundry.
08:08In the front pocket were his glasses.
08:11His mother found them the next morning.
08:14You have to be more careful, Arthur.
08:15You're lucky they weren't broken.
08:17That day at school, Arthur hid his glasses in his lunchbox.
08:26He told his teacher he forgot them.
08:30But now, things were harder to see than ever.
08:34When Arthur walked down the hall to the boys' room,
08:38he had to count the doors.
08:40He opened the door.
08:44Francine was talking.
08:45What was Francine doing in the boys' room?
08:49Get out of here, screamed Francine.
08:52This is the girls' room.
08:55Arthur couldn't find the door.
08:57Now all the girls were screaming out in the hall.
08:59Doors opened.
09:00Teachers ran out.
09:03The principal appeared.
09:05Everyone was looking at Arthur.
09:10Arthur turned red.
09:14He wanted to hide.
09:18The principal took Arthur to his office.
09:24Then Arthur's teacher talked to him.
09:28Why don't you keep your glasses in a case in your pocket as I do, he asked.
09:35You wear glasses, asked Arthur.
09:38Yes, for reading, said his teacher.
09:43He took them out.
09:45They looked just like Arthur's.
09:49Brown.
09:50Suddenly, Arthur felt better.
09:55He went to his lunchbox,
09:58and he put on his glasses.
10:01In gym, Arthur made ten baskets.
10:04Francine made four.
10:08That afternoon, Arthur didn't need Francine to read the problems on the board.
10:13He got every one right.
10:16Arthur could see Francine's paper.
10:19She missed two.
10:21After school, Francine asked Arthur to be on her team.
10:25I'll consider it, said Arthur.
10:30The next morning, Arthur was very surprised when he saw Francine.
10:38They're my movie star glasses, said Francine.
10:43But there isn't any glass in them, said Arthur.
10:48It doesn't matter.
10:50They help me concentrate and make me look beautiful, said Francine.
10:55That afternoon, a photographer took the class picture.
11:01Just a minute, said Arthur.
11:04He took out his glasses.
11:06He carefully polished them and put them on.
11:11Everyone ready, said Francine.
11:14Everyone ready, said the photographer.
11:15Wait, said Francine.
11:18She ran to get her purse.
11:22She took out her movie star glasses.
11:26Okay, I'm ready too, said Francine.
11:31Smile, said the photographer.
11:34I wear glasses, too.
11:47It certainly improved the view.
11:49Most of the time, I wear contact lenses.
11:51But I like the way these look.
11:53What do you think?
11:54I got a complete eye checkup, including a test for color blindness.
11:58You ever have one?
12:00Let me show you.
12:02I got this from my eye doctor.
12:04Now, if you have normal vision, you see the number five.
12:08But if you have red-green color blindness, you don't see a number at all.
12:13Not very serious.
12:14You just have to be extra sure that your socks match
12:16and double-check traffic lights when you cross the street.
12:20But there's another kind of color blindness.
12:22The kind that has nothing to do with your eyes.
12:25It has to do with your mind.
12:26Not with what you see, but how you see it.
12:29And it has to do with your heart.
12:31Not with who you see, but how you see them.
12:35People come in all different sizes, shapes, and colors.
12:38And when you see through the skin on someone's face,
12:41to the person underneath,
12:43then you're colorblind in the best possible way.
12:46I think the real color is behind the color.
13:05That skin on my face is for cold mornings
13:11and the cool breezes of some summer afternoons.
13:17Under that skin and under that face is the real face.
13:26I have all these parts stuffed in me.
13:30Like mama's chicken and biscuits and daddy's apple pie
13:37and a tasty story from the family tree.
13:41But I know that tomorrow morning I'll wake up empty
13:48and hungry for that next bite of my new day.
13:54Imagine, I am standing with one foot in Africa
14:02for my ancestors dragged away from their homes
14:05and lands and tribes to sail to America as slaves.
14:13One foot in Europe
14:15for my ancestors living in their ghettos
14:19in their Polish and German villages
14:21until they sailed to America
14:24to find a new home and life.
14:31Imagine, I am standing with one foot in New York City
14:36for my first eight years of riding
14:40the Central Park Carousel,
14:43walking on Broadway,
14:47listening to the music of the streets.
14:51One foot in Ohio
14:56for my present time of summer corn
15:01and the smell of hogs after rain.
15:06This town has birds
15:09that bring the mornings to my room.
15:13Four foot feet,
15:17enough to make me sit right down.
15:21The way I see any hope for later,
15:26we will have to get over this color thing
15:30and stop looking at how much brown
15:33or tan there is in or on this woman
15:39or that man
15:41and stop looking at who is a woman
15:46and who is a man.
15:50Stop looking.
15:53Start loving.
15:55I'll take this one.
16:03I've got a movie in here.
16:07Well, at least that's what it looks like.
16:09Watch.
16:11This is a flip book,
16:12and I made it myself
16:13by drawing a series of pictures
16:15that change just a little bit each time.
16:17Now, if you look at them quickly,
16:19you see the action of his arm
16:21instead of the individual pictures.
16:23That's how most animated movies
16:25or cartoon films are made,
16:27frame by frame.
16:29Anyone with a little time, patience,
16:31and a pencil can create one.
16:33Making a movie is one way
16:35of showing other people
16:36your own personal way of seeing
16:37and hearing the world.
16:39Now, here are some young filmmakers
16:40who are doing just that.
16:45Close your eyes
16:46and listen to the music
16:48and see what picture
16:50you get in your head.
17:10When I heard the music,
17:17I saw a dancer,
17:20and I saw her dancing in a garden,
17:23and I saw her moving her legs
17:26and arms and spinning.
17:28She dances in her backyard,
17:30and her backyard's really a garden,
17:33and she has five flowers growing,
17:38and every day she leaps over them.
17:41I like to sing,
17:44and I like to dance to music,
17:46and I like ballet.
17:47That's why I made a ballerina in blue,
17:51because blue is one of my favorite colors.
18:07We all listen to the music,
18:08but people have different feelings,
18:12and they do different things,
18:13and they're different.
18:14They're just,
18:14everybody's different.
18:15Some people like to eat,
18:16some people like birds,
18:17or if you just learned a game
18:18called dominoes,
18:20which I just learned,
18:21you're probably going to think
18:21about dominoes.
18:23And so that's how it turned out for me.
18:25I see dominoes with hands,
18:27and they're dancing,
18:28and they're singing,
18:28and they're just dancing along,
18:30and they're jumping on each other,
18:32and they're having fun.
18:32One advantage of working with a partner
18:48is if you're not sure of something,
18:50you can just consult your partner
18:52and see what he thinks about it.
18:54Yeah, so if you have the slightest doubt
18:55about if it's something good or bad,
18:58you can just ask him,
18:59and then if they think it's bad,
19:00you get rid of it.
19:01I see blocks going around,
19:03and then they're coming into shapes,
19:05and then it goes into three different parts,
19:08and it just keeps on circling and circling.
19:10If you use your other senses,
19:28smell, taste, hearing, and touch,
19:31you don't always need your eyes
19:32to know what's going on around you.
19:35Sometimes you don't even need your eyes
19:36to read a book.
19:38Meet Roly.
19:39He's small, round, and very curious,
19:43and he wants to explore the book he lives in.
19:46This book Roly goes exploring
19:48can be read by blind or sighted children.
19:51If you can't read the words with your eyes,
19:54you can read them with your fingers.
19:57These little raised dots
19:58are a special language called Braille.
20:01Blind people use it to read and write.
20:03Each set of dots is a letter
20:05or number that you can learn
20:07to read with your fingers.
20:08Just like you can learn
20:10to use your other senses to read.
20:12I'll show you what I mean.
20:16Reading a book with my fingers
20:18makes me realize how much I see the world
20:20all the time without using my eyes.
20:23You can't always tell how ripe a melon is
20:27just by looking at it.
20:29You can't tell if it's sweet and ready to eat
20:31unless you smell it,
20:34squeeze it,
20:36even listen to it.
20:39Lots of times you can hear
20:40what someone has to say
20:41by using your eyes
20:43instead of your ears.
20:45Watch.
20:45You'll see what I mean.
20:46You'll see what I mean.
22:16For me?
22:25You see what I mean?
22:27Mime is just one way to communicate without saying anything.
22:43And American Sign Language is another.
22:48If you enjoyed...
22:50Arthur's Eyes, here are some other books you might like, but you don't have to take my word for it.
23:06H-E-L-L-O.
23:10Hello, my name is Erin Klimko, and that was American Sign Language.
23:14It's a way of communicating without words.
23:16And if you want to do more of that, you should read a book called A Show of Hands.
23:20It's a book about a boy who doesn't believe in sign language till he meets a girl who's deaf and then finds out he's been using it all along.
23:28He used things like shrugging his shoulders if he didn't know the answer, or bracing his hand if he did, waving to a friend across the street, or just twiddling his thumbs.
23:35I especially like the pictures in the book.
23:38There's even a sign language alphabet.
23:40You can learn the whole alphabet from reading this book, and even some words, too.
23:45I was kind of nervous about showing you this book, so I hope you really like it.
23:48Hello, my name is Robin Martin.
23:52Do you have any grandparents who are blind and who can teach you things?
23:57This book is called Through Grandpa's Eyes.
23:59It's about John and his grandfather who was blind.
24:03Grandpa taught John how to tell when breakfast was ready.
24:07He used his ears and his nose.
24:09He smelled the bacon cooking, and he smelled the merry-goes, which didn't smell so good.
24:14I learned a lot of things from this book, like using my nose and my ears and how special it is to learn from a blind person.
24:22This is a wonderful book, and I hope you read it someday.
24:27Namaste, everybody.
24:29And in India, we say that. It means hello.
24:31I'm Nilay Shah.
24:32I'm Nirav Shah, and he is my twin brother.
24:35Even though we're twins, we don't always agree on things.
24:37And we read this book called Is This a Baby Dinosaur? It's a Science Book.
24:42It is also a non-fiction book.
24:44My favorite part is the question that asks,
24:47Look hard at anything you see.
24:49Is it what it seems to be?
24:51Sometimes it is.
24:52Sometimes it isn't.
24:54You can really let your imagination fly.
24:57But my favorite part is when they ask,
25:00Could you hang these on your Christmas tree?
25:03And the answer is,
25:04No, they wouldn't last.
25:06They are dewdrops on a spider's web.
25:09Nirav, I think they should read the book because of the science.
25:12But I think they should read the book because of the close-up pictures.
25:16Well, you can think what you want to think, but judge for yourself.
25:19Ow, Joe!
25:20Boy, this guy makes Jaws look like a tadpole.
25:32Neat!
25:40Writing this letter is a big deal.
25:42I hope I can afford the postage on it.
25:44Must be part of a big band.
25:55Hey there, big guy.
25:57Would it be too much to ask if I borrowed your gavel?
26:01Order in the court.
26:03Order in the court.
26:05Judging by the size of this,
26:06I'd be a big hit on the bench.
26:08Or tops in my art class.
26:13Am I having some sort of weird dream?
26:16Have my big ideas gotten the best of me?
26:19Or am I just in a toy store called KB in La Mesa, California?
26:23You know, if I were to judge myself just by what I see right now,
26:27I'd feel awfully small.
26:29It could make me feel pretty unimportant.
26:32Boy, that looks so tasty.
26:34I know I have a huge appetite, but this is ridiculous.
26:52I hope my eyes aren't bigger than my stomach.
26:55I'll take that banana, too.
26:59Sometimes even the real world can make me feel small.
27:04But you can't measure yourself by the people or things standing next to you.
27:09There's always going to be somebody bigger or smaller than you are.
27:12Thanks.
27:20The only way to really know how big and important you are
27:23is to look inside yourself.
27:25The things around you aren't nearly as important as how you see yourself.
27:30Some people say the best things come in small packages.
27:33Others say bigger is better.
27:35It all depends on how you look at it.
27:39See you next time.
27:44See you next time.
27:46Butterfly in the sky
27:50I can go twice as high
27:53Take a look
27:54It's in a book
27:56A reading rainbow
27:58I can go anywhere
28:03Friends to know
28:06And ways to grow
28:08A reading rainbow
28:09I can be anything
28:15Take a look
28:18It's in a book
28:19A reading rainbow
28:21A reading rainbow
28:24A reading rainbow
28:45Funding for reading rainbow
28:50Is made possible
28:51By a grant from Kellogg's
28:53Who urges you to explore
28:55The joys of reading
28:56Funding for the series
28:59Was also provided
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