- 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 ne meets with members of the magic round table.

Come with us now to the secret room of - Boy that smoke.

Sure.

Strong.

Well, Merlin did it again.

He blew himself right out of the secret room.

I sure hope he can drop in soon.

Oh, here he comes now.

- Oh, that was a drop.

I I fell almost a thousand feet.

Well, hi Mike, how are you?

- Hi.

And good evening to you.

- Hi, and good evening to you.

I have heard that voice somewhere, that sound a little bit like Mrs. Johnson's voice.

Would you do that again?

- Hi.

And good evening to you.

- Was that an imitation of Mrs. Johnson?

- Yes.

- You didn't mean that in a bad way, did you?

- No, - Because Mrs. Johnson and President Johnson are both individuals for whom we equally have a lot of respect and admiration, and I hope anyone will take it in that light.

Now, while you are doing imitations, do you know any other imitations?

You like to hear one?

Okay, let's do another one.

- Well, this is a spider doing pushups on a mirror, - A spider doing pushups on a mirror?

- Yes.

- Well, what in the world is that?

Well, oh, I see.

This is a spider's legs, and that's the mirror and that's the reflection.

That's pretty good.

I like that.

How about just one more?

- Okay, but this one you'll have to guess.

Ron, - You won't tell me.

- No.

- Well try me.

- Okay.

- I don't see anything happening, do you?

He's just standing still.

What's that?

An imitation of?

- This is an imitation of a man.

Going upstairs.

- Going upstairs.

Why?

You're not even moving your legs.

He was in an elevator In an el.

Get out of here you rascal in an elevator.

What a corny joke that was.

Mike, I've never heard anything like that.

I've heard of this though.

The sorting caliber.

Will you help me make it rise?

Let's say the magic words together.

Fine.

Here we go.

Fiddly.

Die fiddly.

D, magic sword.

Rise for me.

And the magic word or words I should say today are shape of things.

We're going to talk about the shape of things today.

Do you know what kind of things?

Merlin.

Who is it?

Merlin.

Oh, Merlin.

I don't understand your theme.

It.

It sounds kind of silly.

Well, it's not silly at all.

No, no.

The shape of things I'm referring to.

Well, cones.

Cylinders and spheres.

Really?

What are you doing down there?

Well, I'm just getting something.

What?

What?

Just be patient and I'll show you.

I don't see anything.

Well, just a minute.

One.

One.

Yes.

And two.

Two.

And what comes next?

Six.

No, no.

Three.

All right.

Three objects.

Okay.

Yeah, I guess.

So we're going to talk about objects with this shape, and what do they all have in common?

What is this?

It's round.

It's round at the bottom and pointed on top.

Fat on the bottom.

Pointed on top.

Just like the black knife.

Hey, that's a joke.

All right.

And this is round, but it's fat and round like a apple.

Like an apple.

Just like an apple.

And this is also what shape?

It's round two.

Yeah, they're all round.

That's it, huh?

Huh?

Yeah.

Well, I want you to tell me specifically what kind of round objects they are.

Hunt specifically.

For example, I don't get it.

Well, that's the exact name.

This, for example, is a sphere.

- Sphere, - Yes.

That's a sphere.

Fat and round like an apple or the world.

This is pointed on top and round at the bottom, but it tapers you see from the top to the bottom.

Can you tell me what that is?

That's a, oh, let's see.

A cone.

CO. Go ahead.

N and E cone.

That's right.

A cone like an ice cream cone.

You see cone on the bottom and the sphere on top.

I get it.

Gee, I like one now, nevermind that.

Now what is this?

That's a, it's round.

Yes, it's round, but it's the same roundness, the same size on top and bottom.

What is that?

It's, it's a tool, but it's called something else in geometry.

We're gonna learn a big word today.

I know.

I got it.

Go ahead.

It's a cylinder.

Alright, spell it.

C. Yes.

Yes, go ahead.

Y-L-I-N-D-D-E.

Yes.

The letter.

EER cylinder.

Steer cone in cylinder.

That's very good.

Now I'm going to draw this over at the, at the chalkboard over here.

And you say, you say, so long Jack.

So long, Jack.

No, no, no.

To our friends.

See you later.

Alright, now you pay very close attention.

You watch.

You watch what I'm going to draw.

I'm going to draw.

You see spheres, cones and cylinders are very important to the artisan, to the engineer.

They're using everyday life constantly.

You see them all around you and they're the strongest shapes you can possibly find.

Tell me what this one is.

You probably see this every day.

That's right.

It's a cylinder, C-Y-L-I-N-D-E-R. And you know where it's used?

Well, it's coming up from the top of this building right here.

And this is a very large factory building.

It's made of steel and it's riveted together and it's hollow inside.

And what's coming out of it?

Beg pardon?

Smoke is coming out of that.

That is a smoke stack coming out of a building made of steel.

Some smoke stacks are made of brick.

Alright, now let's try another, remember that's called a cylinder.

Let's try another shaped object.

If I draw an ice cream cone upside down, you know that's a cone.

Many times you see cones on the top of old buildings.

This is king Arthur's castle, and he has a cone shaped roof or a spire on top of it like that.

That's a cone.

And of course, the well known ice cream cone, that's dripping a little bit that we all like so much that.

What is the third shape we talked about?

Remember?

Cylinder cone and what sphere?

Sphere is round in fat just like an apple, right?

But there's another one you use every day.

In fact, Americans are known for this.

According to my crystal ball, the sphere takes the shape many times of a baseball when it's covered with leather.

Let's now combine all three forms, shall we?

The sphere.

See if you can tell me what this is.

There's a sphere on top of a cone, on top of a cylinder.

Do you know what that is?

That's a missile.

M-I-S-S-I-L-E. And the United States launched a missile with a cone, and on top of it was a round steroid object.

It was the first satellite to orbit the earth.

The round type later astronauts got inside of a cone like this and they discarded the sphere.

They use that, they took that off and they were let down from space on a parachute that was shaped like half of a sphere with lines coming down to the cone, the space cone.

Very important objects, the sphere, round and fat like an apple.

The cone pointed like the roof on King Arthur's castle or an ice cream cone and the cylinder long and tubular like a magic wand.

It can be solid inside like this.

Stick this ink stick or it can be hollow inside.

I spoke of a wand a minute ago.

Let me show you a trick that uses a cylinder and a a cone.

I I think you might enjoy it.

You name them Now you name the pieces as I fill them to you.

This is a what?

Excuse me, cylinder.

C-Y-L-I-N-D-E-R cylinder.

And in it, it has a hanky.

Now it's a hollow cylinder or tube.

Put that over here.

And this is a cone.

It's also hollow and it's shaped very much like a dun cap.

Boys at the castle who can't spell the words that they're supposed to in school or say the alphabet, have to wear one of these.

Now over here I have a wand that is also a cylinder.

It's a long slim cylinder, right?

A long slim just fits the cone.

Just fits the cone.

I'm gonna make this cone very special and poke the bottom down a little bit.

And take this wand, tap it twice and cover.

Just throw that to me.

George, the genie.

Just throw the cylinder to me.

Thank you.

Just throw it to me.

Thank you.

Just throw it, George.

Thank you.

I'm going to put, he's always with me.

George the genie.

We haven't seen him for a long time, but he's a very fine young man.

I'm going to cover the top of this cone or D cap with a red handkerchief.

I wish you could see the color because it's such a pretty, pretty red hanky.

Now I'm going to tuck the red hanky down into the cone all the way down, all the way to the very, very bottom.

Jam it in there quite tightly.

And now as we just tap it 1, 2, 3 times, I'm going to get a glass.

Get a glass and place the cone right in the glass so you can watch it at all times.

Keep one eye on the cone in the hanky and the glass and the other eye on me.

You have to be all eyes for this trick.

Now let me take my wand one more time.

Here is the cylinder.

It's not quite as skinny as this wand, but the wand fits through the, you notice it just fits through here.

Just fits through.

It's just a little longer than the cylinder.

Now we tap the glass, the cone, and the cylinder in that manner, fiddly die.

Fiddly D, magic hanky.

Change places for me.

And this time I'm going to make the hanky leave the cone invisibly go through space before your very eyes.

You can't see it because it's invisible and end up in the cylinder.

1, 2, 3, go.

Now the hanky has left the cone.

It's in the cylinder.

It's, it's not here.

I don't know if I have time to finish this trick.

Maybe I'll have to do it another day.

Oh, here's the hanky.

I dropped it on the table.

I'll just pick it up and I'm gonna roll into a little ball.

Throw it in the air high and hope it lands into the cylinder.

Here we go.

The hanky went into the cylinder.

Yeah, I saw it's there.

I know it's there and it's gone.

You don't take my word for it.

You'd rather look.

No, it's not in the cone.

I'll open it up all the way.

It's not there.

It's in right here in the cylinder.

And now of course the cylinder is empty.

That's called the migratory hanky.

Anything that migrates goes from one place to another.

Sometimes we make coins migrate and sometimes we make handkerchiefs migrate.

Remember now the round fat object like an apple is a sphere.

The one shaped like this is a cylinder.

And the one like the duns cap is a cone.

I have a cylinder over here and inside of this cylinder is a pyramid.

When I turn the pyramid upside down, it's not upside down.

It's right side up.

Say something's wrong.

I better check this.

Buy now.

See you soon.

Bye.

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