![]() ![]() ![]() Walker's fellow Zoomer Joseph Shrand says the experience was "exhilarating" and "the best thing ever." Now Dr. Walker credits the producers, composer Newton Wayland and choreographer Billy Wilson with bringing "out the best in us." ![]() She tells NPR the producers "allowed us to be inquisitive." After Zoom she went on to do some acting and then got into television production. "It was seven kids having fun and just being children," remembers original Zoomer Nancy Walker. GBH, where Zoom was produced, has a virtual event featuring a conversation with creator and producer Christopher Sarson David Kamp, journalist and author of Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America, and comments from original cast members or "Zoomers" as they're called. To celebrate Zoom's 50th anniversary, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting has made more than 100 episodes available to stream online for the first time. Its legacy, however, may have been making a Boston zip code famous. Zoom was partly created to help model interpersonal relationships. Think Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Zoom was created during a period of experimentation in educational television. They beckoned young viewers with the lyrics, "Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom-a zoom. For pre-teens watching TV in the early 1970s, the opening to Zoom was captivating with seven, charismatic, barefoot kids in rugby shirts running, jumping, dancing and singing on a bare stage. ![]()
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