The Magic Window (June 8, 1954)
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Description: Like Window Watchers, The Magic Window was among central Iowa's first locally made children's shows. In this episode, hostess Arjes "Sunny" Sunquist visits a farm and teaches about the animals there. This episode originally aired on WOI-TV on June 8, 1954.
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hi there remember when we played the finger game about the ball a little one and the one that got bigger and then about a great big one do you think you can remember that today and let's play it again shall we all right here's a ball and here's a ball and a great big ball I see that's Compton now are you ready all right one two three we do it again since you can say it right along with me this time all right here's a ball here's a ball and a great big ball I see shall we count them are you ready then one two three well that's fun to play sometimes isn't that name we'll do it again sometime probably talked about little ball and a bigger one and a great big ball and we're going to talk about little things and big things today too but we're not going to talk about ball and we're not going to talk about ice cream cones and we're not going to talk about flowers going to talk about animal we're going to talk about big animals and little animals the mothers and their babies and I have some pictures here that I thought you might like to see some just pictures that have been cut out of a magazine and then I have some special pictures but I'll tell you about them later on here's the first one do you know what kind of animals these are these animals are found on the farm and do you know what noise they make can you make it right along with me they go all right point point point Anderson mama pig and all those little baby pigs see more there's a whole bunch of the market so we look at another picture and see what kind of a mother and the baby we have this time all right there do you know what kind of an animal this way well this is a goat and the mama goats called a nanny goat and the papago is called the billy goat and do you know what the little baby goats are called there are two of them in this picture out there and they're twins and you know what they're called they're called kids nanny goat and the billy goat and the little baby kids and here is another one own look the mama horse and a little baby horse the cult mother's called the mayor and babies called the cold see how very small is but look how long his legs are my legs are almost as long as his mother's you know I'd like to take you to the farm with me now and look at some of the animals that I saw on the farm and I put a halter on his mother and let her around and I knew that if I would leave her her little baby would follow and there he is I'll bring it right up so that you can take a good look at them here we go say hello to everybody oh and they have such nice velvety noses oh it's just so much fun to broadly and if the horse knows that you're they're friendly won't hurt there's a couple of people that were watching while we were taking the pictures would you like to see him run come on little cold run forest so we can watch you running around we all have that pretty good but maybe if I ran along with you just froze you'd run there he goes kicking up his feet back around and he always goes back to his mother and he's hiding back there well we'll see if we can't scare enough come on however how are you feel cute now let's see if we can get everybody to run maybe if I'd beid its mother well on the wrong side we'll just have to turn around now come on come on let's go a little faster very goes prancing around there and then here we come with another one oh and this little Colt had never had a halter on before you didn't like it look at him prancing around there and jumping around never had a rope on him before he was afraid of it scared until he was jumping up and down but after a while he'd let me patty he was still free scared of that rope though but it was alright he'd eat things out of your hand and if those was nice and soft too but still that rope again he took even want to run with that rope on his head come on we'll go over and see your mother and there she goes so the little Colts going to follow like how he braces his feet he backs up and back up and look where we are now well my good cheap rug and you know it just a minute there's going to be another big batch or sheet that come out if you look very closely right in front of me there a sheet will jump right straight up into the air you have to watch very closely here they come there did you see them jump and there they go how about seeing a little one there we are a little lamb and he says bad oh look at him he just all wooly and fight just so cute we'll put him down here now and see where he goes there he goes where do you suppose he's going yes sir right back to his mother here's another one this is the different kind because he had black on his face you see look at him if he cute just like a nice soft rug will put him down and keeping go find his mother there she is and pretty soon now another little lamb will run right up to them oh they're going to walk away well you better hurry up lamb and catch up with your mother now there comes another when you see you know sometimes she have twins and here are a pair of twins right here let's get them good look at them who haha I think you just as willing if they can be where do you suppose they're going to go when I put them down let's watch that's not cheap now listen you know where we are we're over with the pigs look at the long nose of his snug on this pig and his ears are pointed if I put him down he can't run to his mother because he's old enough now that he's been separated from his mother but he goes over and joins two brothers and sisters and here if our two mother pigs with her little baby see how small they are we'll look at the head of the great big momma Pig there she's a great big one Marla pig is called a song and some of the little things were getting your dinner and that little white one there he didn't know what he liked me watching him or not this is where they live under a great big shed like this may stay in the shade and sometimes the sawls or the mother pigs don't like you to get too close to their babies from their very very tiny until I'm just going to stay right here and just look right in at them cuz i don't want them all people to get mad at me oh they're all sleeping in there here's another one you're close is it quite as long is it and look at his ears their vows instead of pointed and instead of saying point like all the time sometimes they go thanks squeal all the time and you know what I found out that if you held their feet together they really squeal and there they go run run run pretty soon he'll come to a corner and one of them will go right around the corner and you know what the rest of them do they call him right around round it around now where are we we're back to the barn and we're looking at cow and her calf there's mom Kyle she's a short and here is her little calf isn't he a cute little fella nice to have his chin scratch can you come a little closer and then all the sudden you'll pull back like that again he doesn't really know whether he liked it or not so he decides it's about time for lunch since his mother's eating grass he figured he might as well have something to eat too and all little cashino drink their mother's milk he's going to get something to eat too everybody even look at the horns on this car because aren't they yoha car washes her cab almost like a cat does sticks out her tongue and she licks it all over would you like to see one of the little calves right close up again well maybe just maybe I can walk over very very slowly and go right up side the cap maybe we can look at the calf again come on there we are he's all brown and white and he's not willing like a little lamb but he's spurring on the left until you do and he said laughs look at his long ears he has great big beautiful eyes here is a picture of the mother cat or a mother cow in her little calf but this is just a picture wasn't it fun seeing the real animals running around you know it's vacation time pretty soon now and maybe you'll be taking a long long vacation and if you do you might be driving through the country your way out in the field and as you drive along maybe you can look and see how many different animals you can see oh it's much fun just ride around and say oh there's a cow over there and that Kyle has to care and you know what every time you see a white horse you can lick your thumb press it the middle of your palm get it like that and you'll have good luck did you know that why if the news home here were white horse i would go flip press yet and then i'd have good luck you know something else there's a game that you might want to play while you're riding in the car and looking at some of a different animal you could draw a picture Oh different kinds maybe pigs and perhaps a cow let's see how you draw Kyle comes great big eyes and falls up here top and ears not five and then we could draw a picture of a horse to these Falls and this is your ride in the law every time you see one of these animal you put a mark you find them there that that and you can play with your mom and your dad need end of the day counted up it's a lot of fun to play this counting game you
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