Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 31x3

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The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Chuck Aber and HulaMouse's finished sand sculpture. Lady Elaine quickly criticizes it and just about everything else. But the sand sculpture inspires Lady Aberlin to dance, and leads Daniel to create a tiny mobile. Daniel suggests why Lady Elaine might be hurting people's feelings. Rogers does a video insert of his visit to a lady's pottery.

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1. It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood.

2. A beautiful day for a neighbor, would you be mine?

3. Could you be mine?

4. It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, a neighborly day

5. for a beauty, would you be mine?

6. Could you be mine?

7. I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.

8. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

9. So let's make the most of this beautiful day.

10. Since we're together, we might as well say would you be mine?

11. Could you be mine?

12. Won't you be my neighbor?

13. Won't you please?

14. Won't you please?

15. Please won't you be my neighbor.

16. - Hi neighbor.

17. Glad we're together again.

18. I brought some sculpting dough with me today.

19. I'll show you.

20. Here it is.

21. It's just flour and salt mixed with water.

22. And I like to sculpt with it.

23. Think I'll make something here.

24. Put some parts to the side.

25. What do you think it looks like?

26. Maybe a little trolley?

27. Well, let's get the real trolley for some other kind of play.

28. Come on Trolley.

29. - Yes.

30. Well last time in Make-Believe, Neighbor Aber and Hula Mouse

31. were going to sculpt something with sand.

32. So let's pretend that they've finished that sculpture,

33. as the Trolley goes into the neighborhood of Make-Believe.

34. It'll never win, Toots.

35. - Oh.

36. You startled me, Lady Elaine.

37. - What's that thing you're dancing around there?

38. - A sand sculpture, I guess.

39. I didn't make it.

40. - I guess the Westwooders and Hula Mouse did.

41. Well, it'll never win either.

42. - It doesn't look like anything.

43. - To me it looks like— everything.

44. - You'll see what wins, Toots.

45. See you.

46. Lady Aberlin, I presume.

47. - Correct, as usual Uncle Friday.

48. - What do you think of the Westwood sand sculpture?

49. - I think it's inspiring.

50. - Dance.

51. - Very good, very good.

52. - Does it inspire you to do anything, Sire?

53. - For some reason, yes, it does.

54. I feel like reciting the royal version

55. of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

56. - Oh, oh please do, if you will, Uncle.

57. - Well certainly.

58. Yes.

59. "Scintillate, scintillate, diminutive stellar orb.

60. How inexplicable seems the stupendous problem

61. of your existence.

62. Elevated it's such an immeasurable distance

63. in an apparently perpendicular direction,

64. from this terrestrial planet which we occupy.

65. Resembling in thy dazzling and unapproachable

66. effulgence a gem of purest carbon

67. set solitaire in a university of space."

68. - That'll will never win, Friday.

69. - What are you talking about, Fairchilde?

70. - That silly poem of yours will never win.

71. And neither will that silly sand sculpture or Lady A's dance

72. about it.

73. - The arts festival is for art's sake, Lady Elaine.

74. It's not for winning something.

75. - That's right.

76. That's absolutely right.

77. - I know a winner when I see one.

78. And I'll be the judge.

79. Toot toot.

80. - Oh, my.

81. Her behavior is outrageous.

82. She insists that everybody's artwork is no good

83. and insists on being the judge.

84. - Yes, it is exasperating.

85. - Yes.

86. - What can we do about her, Uncle?

87. - Well suppose you ask the other neighbors.

88. And then report back to me.

89. - How democratic of you, Uncle Friday.

90. - Yes, farewell niece.

91. - Farewell!

92. I think I'll go and talk with Daniel Striped Tiger.

93. Is that you Lady Elaine?

94. - No, it's Lady Aberlin, Daniel.

95. Oh.

96. Hi.

97. - Hi Daniel.

98. Are you all right?

99. - Not really.

100. - Oh, nothing I guess.

101. - You and I are old friends, Daniel.

102. - I know.

103. - Well, I was working on something

104. for the arts festival.

105. And Lady Elaine came by, and—

106. - She looked at what I had made and she said it will never win.

107. And that made me sad.

108. - Of course it did.

109. - I mean I didn't make it to win something.

110. I just made it for fun.

111. And I had fun thinking it up and making it.

112. - And then when Lady Elaine said that to you—

113. - Somehow the fun was gone.

114. And the sad was there instead.

115. - Would you— show your artwork to me?

116. - Oh, it's not anything fancy.

117. It's just some cutouts and clips.

118. - I'd really like to see it.

119. - Well, OK.

120. Are you sure you want to see it?

121. - Yes, I'm sure.

122. And you know Daniel, I'm not here to judge it.

123. I'm just here to enjoy it.

124. - OK, well here it is.

125. - Oh!

126. What a good idea!

127. A mobile with paper clips and paper.

128. It dances!

129. Oh!

130. - I certainly do.

131. However did you think of this?

132. - Well, I saw the great big sand sculpture

133. over there when I woke up this morning.

134. And I thought I'll just make something too.

135. - And that sand sculpture inspired me to make up a dance.

136. And this mobile inspires me to sing a song.

137. - Really.

138. It's you I like.

139. It's not the things you wear.

140. And not the way you do your hair, but it's you I like.

141. The way you are right now.

142. The way down deep inside you.

143. Not the things that hide you.

144. Not even your artwork.

145. It's just beside you.

146. But it's you I like.

147. Every part of you.

148. Your fur, your eyes, your feelings, whether old or new.

149. I hope that you'll remember, even when you're feeling blue.

150. That it's you I like.

151. It's you yourself.

152. It's you, it's you I like.

153. - Oh, thanks for liking me, Lady A.

154. - Oh, I like you Daniel, and what you make.

155. - Well you may have it.

156. - Sure.

157. I'll make another one.

158. - Oh, thanks Daniel.

159. It's so beautiful.

160. - I'm glad you like it!

161. - And incidentally, what do you think

162. we could do about Lady Elaine?

163. - You mean because she hurts people's feelings.

164. - Yes, why do you think she does that?

165. - Well, maybe one day people hurt her feelings.

166. - You are a wise tame tiger, Daniel.

167. - Well you're a generous friend, Lady A.

168. Thanks for this, Daniel!

169. - You're welcome.

170. - Ugga mugga Daniel Striped Tiger.

171. - Ugga mugga, Lady A. See you!

172. Bye.

173. - Lady Elaine.

174. Oh!

175. The judge is out.

176. Come back next time.

177. I wonder what she's doing now?

178. - Hi Trolley.

179. Look what Daniel made for the arts festival!

180. - Yes, I know.

181. It's wonderful.

182. What do you think we can do about Lady

183. Elaine judging everything?

184. - That's a great solution!

185. Thanks, Trolley.

186. - What do you think about Lady Elaine's

187. hurting people's feelings?

188. Daniel wondered if she does it because other people

189. hurt her feelings.

190. Well, we'll think more about that next time.

191. Right now, the fish want some food.

192. Mm hm, don't you fish.

193. Such good swimmers and good eaters.

194. I love those fish.

195. My trolley.

196. Have I ever shown you this beautiful piece of pottery?

197. My friend Dolly Naranjo made this one time

198. while I was visiting her workshop.

199. I love to think about that time when we were together

200. and she made this beautiful piece of pottery.

201. I just noticed it seems so silent here.

202. - Oh, it's very quiet.

203. I think there's just a little bit of wind and that's all.

204. But there's never any noise.

205. There's never anyone down here, just me.

206. - Thank you for allowing me to come.

207. - You're very welcome.

208. This is what we're going to get.

209. This is dark and it's just clay.

210. And it will hold together.

211. MR. May I do that?

212. Yes, you may.

213. Just pull it out with your fingertips.

214. MR. When we finished gathering the clay,

215. we walked back up the hill to Dolly's place.

216. - We'll pour our clay into this bucket.

217. - Mm hm, yes.

218. You can pour yours in there.

219. And if you will stir the clay with this while

220. I pour water into it.

221. And then it will melt very quickly.

222. Maybe just keep stirring for a little while.

223. - It's not very hard to stir.

224. - No, it's not.

225. - Did you like to play with mud when you were a little girl?

226. - Always.

227. Always.

228. I still like to play with mud.

229. - This feels like it.

230. Oh, there it's coming.

231. MR. As I stirred,

232. the mixture got thicker and thicker.

233. When it was thick enough, we poured

234. the gooey clay onto a big sheet.

235. And we'll have a nice little pile of it.

236. The next thing I'm going to do is

237. give you the bucket of volcanic ash.

238. And the volcanic ash comes from the hills

239. in northern New Mexico.

240. What we're going to do is add the volcanic ash to the clay,

241. to give it strength.

242. And I am going to take one of my shoes off.

243. And as I mix it with my foot, you

244. will add— if you can just reach in and add some of the ash

245. to the clay, and I will mix it in.

246. MR. As I sprinkled on the ash

247. with my hand, Dolly mixed it into the clay with her foot.

248. She's known how to do that ever since she was a young girl.

249. When we were all finished mixing and the clay had dried

250. for a while, we went into her studio.

251. - You can sit there, and I will sit here.

252. And I will show you how to make coils

253. that I can use to build upon.

254. - All right.

255. Coils, you say.

256. - Coils are like snakes.

257. Little snakes.

258. And they are the building material, the building

259. the building blocks of traditional Indian pottery.

260. And what I would like for you to do is take a bit of clay,

261. about this much.

262. Put it on the table.

263. Then just roll it back and forth,

264. like this, until you have a coil.

265. And the coils that I need for this pot

266. will be about that size.

267. MR. About this size.

268. Yes.

269. MR. Well, I'll try.

270. - OK.

271. Let me give you some clay that you can use.

272. And I will begin with the base.

273. - Oh, I think I was supposed to make them like this.

274. - Yes.

275. And then you can start rolling it out.

276. There you go.

277. And what I'm doing is just making a small pinched base.

278. MR. That looks like a little, sort of a bowl.

279. And then I'm going to take the coils

280. that you make and pinch them onto the base.

281. MR.Wow.

282. And as the coil goes around and around,

283. the pot just gets taller and taller.

284. MR. Dolly made it look so easy.

285. Her hands seemed very comfortable forming the clay.

286. - Oh, that's wonderful.

287. Let me add that to the base.

288. And I will give you just a bit more clay so

289. that you will be able to make another one.

290. And I'll use that one.

291. MR. We made a good team, Dolly and I. I

292. making the coils, and Dolly adding them to the pot.

293. At last, I finished making the final coil.

294. And Dolly added it to the top of the pot.

295. She smoothed the coils with a knife.

296. And after that, formed the top part of the pot called the lip.

297. When it was just the way she wanted it,

298. she added it to the pot.

299. And when she was finished, she let it dry.

300. - Now that it's dried, it looks smaller.

301. - It is smaller.

302. As the clay dries out, it shrinks a little bit.

303. But as we've compacted the pot with the knife,

304. it also has made it smaller.

305. The next part of the process is polishing.

306. And this is a red clay that I also gather from the hillside.

307. MR. Looks like paint.

308. It looks like very, very red paint.

309. MR. But it's just clay and water?

310. It's clay and water, that's all.

311. Then we want to start polishing.

312. This is a polishing stone that I use

313. for the first round of polishing.

314. And what I'm going to do is very rapidly

315. move my stone back and forth over the entire pot.

316. So that I can begin packing in this lip into the pot,

317. into the pores of the pot.

318. And now we can start using my grandmother's stone.

319. Actually, this is my great grandmother's stone.

320. My mother gave it to me when I started making pottery.

321. MR. And now it's been used by four generations.

322. That's right.

323. MR. Oh.

324. But with this stone,

325. I'm going to start at the bottom and go to the top.

326. Only in one direction.

327. And we'll go around the entire pot, two or three times.

328. MR.It was so interesting to see

329. the outside get smoother and shinier,

330. as Dolly continued to polish it.

331. - There.

332. I think that this is ready to be fired.

333. MR. Oh, good.

334. - We'll take it outdoors and we'll

335. fire it in the traditional way.

336. MR. OK.

337. - We're going to put our pot into the tin.

338. Put another piece of tin over the pot

339. to protect it from anything falling in there.

340. And then we're going to put wood all the way around it,

341. standing up this way.

342. And if you can do that side, I will

343. put some water on this other side.

344. - It's like making an oven.

345. - Mm hm.

346. - And baking it.

347. - The fire will burn for about half an hour.

348. And then our pot will be fired.

349. MR. After the firing, back to the studio.

350. Fred, our pot is ready to carve.

351. - It's not too hot.

352. - No, it's just warm.

353. But it's not hot.

354. And the way that I like to decorate my pots

355. is to carve them.

356. And I use a small exacto knife.

357. I hold the knife and go forward with my line.

358. And this part of the process takes quite a bit of time.

359. It's slow and tedious.

360. But it can also be the most fun part.

361. MR. Because Dolly's been making pots

362. since she was a very young girl, she's had a lot of practice.

363. I marveled at how carefully she worked,

364. and how skillfully she carved.

365. - There.

366. It's finished.

367. - Isn't that beautiful.

368. And to think that all started with the clay

369. that we gathered under the hill there.

370. - Yes.

371. And it was so nice to have you with me to do that.

372. - Thanks, Dolly.

373. - Thank you.

374. - This is beautiful.

375. And it means all the more to me, because

376. of the wonderful person who made it.

377. There are so many artistic ways to express who we are

378. and how we feel.

379. Every time I look at that piece of pottery,

380. I think of Dolly and being with her.

381. Trolley.

382. Trolley rhymes with Dolly.

383. Here's a trolley for you Dolly.

384. You know, I wonder what ways you will choose as you grow more

385. and more to express yourself artistically.

386. It's such a good feeling to know you're alive.

387. It's such a happy feeling, you're growing inside.

388. And when you wake up ready to say,

389. I think I'll make a snappy new day.

390. It's such a good feeling.

391. A very good feeling.

392. The feeling you know, that I'll be back, when the day is new.

393. And I'll have more ideas for you.

394. And you'll have things you'll want to talk about.

395. I will too.

396. We'll have lots to talk about and lots

397. to do when we're together next time.

398. Bye!

399. For anyone who would like to know,

400. here's the PBS Neighborhood online address.