- In the days of King Arthur, they lived in Camelot, A source who entertained the royal court with miraculous feet south, magic high.

Above the castle walls, the ancient Necro meets with members of the magic round table.

Come with us now to the secret room of Merlin.

- Welcome, welcome once more to my secret room.

It's nice to see you again.

I'm glad you could come.

I think we'll have fun today.

What do we do first?

Whenever we meet in the secret room here at Camelot?

That's correct.

We make the mighty sword.

Excalibur rise from the stone.

And then we see the secret word that's on the blade.

The theme word for the day could be anything.

I don't know what it is today.

Well, let's, let's make the sword rise and see what's on the blade.

Shall we?

Good.

Here we go.

Ready?

Fiddly die fiddly.

D magic sword.

Rise for me.

Well, the magic word today is a RT Art, again, a RT.

Of course there are many types of art, painting, sculpture, drawing.

The last time we met, we, we did some drawing, didn't we?

And it was interesting, at least I think it was because I got some letters from you and you asked me to do the head again.

We're gonna do a cartoon head and I'm gonna see if you can remember how a head is proportioned or divided into parts.

I like to draw simple, oval head, sort of an egghead, isn't it?

Cartoon type head.

And remember now in our mind, we, we divide the head into three parts.

In the middle part.

Go the ears.

That's easy to remember, isn't it?

Just put the ear.

And also in the middle part goes the nose.

This is a funny fellow.

And the eyes, eyebrows are in the top third like that.

And this man is going to be looking over here and halfway between the nose and the chin, halfway down, we draw the mouth.

What kind of a mouth would you like?

A happy mouth or a sad mouth.

Alright, we'll make a happy mouth.

A smiling mouth.

Everyone likes, happy people.

I think he'd be much happier though if we put some hair on his head.

Get kind of cold that way.

Now that's a simple cartoon head.

Now I'm gonna draw a side view of a head, a side view.

I'll draw, well, I'll draw Merlin's head only profile.

That means side.

This is front, now side.

We still use a third, a third and a third just as we did here.

Alright, see if you can figure out what I'm doing now.

That's Merlin's old long nose.

And here's his white mustache and his beard.

And remember now I said the middle third goes the nose and the ears.

The nose and the ears.

So we'll go back here.

And you know, old people have very large ears.

The nose and the ears keep on growing as long as you live.

That's a frightening thought, isn't it?

Alright, better finish the hat, put it back like that.

And my little star up here.

And white eyebrows and the eyes in the middle.

Third.

Well, there's Merlin.

And that is a profile picture.

Shall we draw another one?

All right, let, let me draw one this time.

I call it an alphabet head.

You know the letters of the alphabet, A, B, and C, and all the letters of the alphabet.

What letter shall we use first?

The letter A.

That'll be rather difficult to draw a face with a letter.

A I wonder what part of the face that could be really?

Well again, we have to draw our oval and the nose is still in the middle.

Third, well, we'll put a, an angry mouth there.

And the eyebrows, he's frowning a little bit and he's looking over towards the right side of my secret room.

I mustn't forget those ears in the middle.

Third must eye.

This fellow is rather old and he just has a few strands of hair over the top of his head and over each ear.

A very old man, and he's very angry.

Shall we draw another head?

Alright, this is an alphabet head based on the letter A right here.

Now let's you practice numbers and you practice the alphabet.

Now let's draw a number head and a person you might see a lot around your school.

I hope he doesn't get angry.

This is going to be the, the custodian or the building superintendent.

Sometimes he's called a janitor.

And we'll start with the same shape.

But remember I said this is a number head, not an alphabet head.

Here we had an A.

What number, what number would that be do you suppose?

Zero or O, or not zero.

Now he probably has a hat, a janitor's hat.

And I'll use a number five.

It has a cute peak on the top there.

And this particular janitor wears big glasses.

And we'll use the number eight.

And he's angry.

So I'm gonna put a seven.

That's upside down.

Put a little frown there.

Number two for an ear, six for a nose.

Gee, I hope he doesn't get angry for drawing this kind of a face.

And the janitor I know has a mustache that looks like that kind of a cute little mustache.

And out from underneath is number nine.

And that's his pipe.

That's his pipe.

There's a number four.

And that's his bow tie.

Let's see how many numbers we have now.

Oh, one would be here.

1, 2, 3.

The mustache.

Four, the bow tie.

Five, the hat.

Six, the nose.

Did I miss any?

Seven.

Seven is the frown.

Eight are his glasses right here?

Eight of the glasses.

What about number nine?

Nine is the pipe you remember, didn't you?

And zero is the head.

That's a lot of fun.

Drawing numbers.

Shall we draw something different?

Well, just for a change, you know, I I I like to eat good food.

And I'm particularly fond of, of fruit.

I like to draw.

I won't tell you what kind of fruit this is.

You tell me.

Here we go There.

I'm out of breath.

In fact, I, I'm so out of breath that I'm, I'm in fact, I'm even hungry.

I work so hard.

Well, this, I'll give you a hint about this fruit.

It has an appeal to it.

Now don't slip on this one.

Banana.

That's right.

Sometimes when I draw food, it looks so realistic.

I could almost tear one right off the bunch and eat it.

I think I'll do that.

Now I, oh, please.

Excuse me, because you shouldn't eat in front of people, but I'll just have a little bite of banana and put the rest of it.

Excuse me.

I just had to do that.

Put the rest over here.

He'll gimme the energy to go over and talk to reco.

The little fellow that lives in the vase.

He, wait a minute, Chauncey is taking a banana off the bunch.

Johny, I caught you.

Put the banana back.

I know you can't put, don't take another bite.

Put the banana back on the bunch.

Shame on you.

I have to watch that rascal.

Put it right back up there.

And don't you take any more bananas that I draw apples either.

Goodbye, John.

See?

Oh, that rascal time.

Now to talk to the little fellow who lives in the vase.

He's only about, oh, about that high.

And he used a wand this size.

His name is what Sir?

Echo?

Yes.

He likes to sleep.

Incidentally, if you'd like a wand like sir echoes wand, just right to Merlin care of this station, tell me the good deed you've done and I'll send you a magic wand and a membership card.

Write to Merlin care of this station.

Let's see if sir.

Echo's awake.

Hello?

- Down there.

Hello?

Up there.

Up.

Say Merlin.

- Yeah.

Yes, sir.

Echo, what is it?

- Merlin?

Could I, I draw a picture two.

- Yes.

You may draw a picture here.

I have a little pencil in my pocket.

I'll, oh good.

I'll put it right there.

- Oh, Merlin.

Oh, ow.

I'm so hurt.

- I'm very sorry.

- Well, you should be, how would you like to be hit on the head with a, with a tel te telephone - Pole?

Well, it is as big as a telephone pole, but I'm very sorry.

I wouldn't like it.

Now that you've got it, would you, would you, would you draw a picture for me?

- Well, you know all well, all right Merlin, well first I'm going to draw a snow scene.

Merlin - I'll, A snow scene.

- Yes.

I'll draw it in just 12 seconds flat.

- You're gonna draw a snow scene or a winter scene in just 12 seconds.

I don't think you can do it that fast.

- You just watched me Merlin.

Alright, now just - Watch.

Wait a minute.

I want to time him with my hourglass.

1, 2, 3, go.

12 seconds.

Do you finish?

- Yeah.

Yeah.

There it is.

Merlin.

- Oh my.

I hope I can get it out of here.

Oh my.

I wonder what he drew in 12 seconds.

A snow sea.

Here it is, right on the well, there's nothing there.

It's blank.

- Well, Merlin, it's a picture of a, of a white polar bear in a storm in Alaska.

- Oh, what?

I don't see anything.

- Well, of course not.

That's because everything is white.

Merlin.

- I think you're pulling my leg.

How about drawing my picture?

- Okay, Merlin.

Here I go.

Alright there Merlin.

All done.

- Can I have my picture?

Yeah, go ahead.

Oh, I'm so happy that you draw my picture.

That's so nice.

Isn't that a nice picture of me?

Do you like that sir?

Eckle, how could you do that?

Shame on you.

How could you ever do a thing like that to me, sir?

Echo, drawing a picture like that of Merlin.

I don't really look like that, do I?

I don't think I do.

You know, we haven't done a puzzle in a long time.

Let me go over here now and ask you if you can solve this puzzle.

Put on your thinking cap because we have right here, 12 sticks.

I'll count them.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 sticks.

Now you can move any stick you want to solve this puzzle.

Remember there are 12 or four squares, four squares by just moving two sticks.

That's right.

Just moving two sticks.

Can you have two squares?

You can only move two sticks.

That's one.

And that's two.

How many squares would you have there?

Three.

No, that's not right.

Do you have any other ideas?

Do you have two complete squares?

If you just remove two sticks?

Alright, you say remove this one and this one.

You have two squares, but you have some unfinished squares.

These must be two complete squares.

I'll tell you how to remove two sticks from 12 and have two squares.

Two squares left.

I'll say it.

Yeah.

And have two squares left.

You remove two inside sticks that are next to each other.

This one and this one, just two.

And now I have two squares, a little square and a great big square like that.

That wasn't very difficult was it?

You think about that.

Try to fool your mother and daddy.

Bye now.

I'll see you soon.

- Melin was produced in the studios of Ohio University Television, Athens, Ohio.