1 00:00:08,375 --> 00:00:10,070 What is your name, please? 2 00:00:10,143 --> 00:00:11,872 My name is Ted Geisel, 3 00:00:12,312 --> 00:00:15,009 Come along with me in search of Dr. Seuss 4 00:00:15,081 --> 00:00:16,674 We'll try to catch him if we can 5 00:00:16,750 --> 00:00:18,275 He's out there on the loose! 6 00:00:18,351 --> 00:00:21,150 Come along with me in search of Dr. Seuss 7 00:00:21,221 --> 00:00:22,746 ! know that we will find him 8 00:00:22,822 --> 00:00:24,381 -It'll be a cinch -Be a cinch! 9 00:00:24,457 --> 00:00:26,050 -We'll ask the Grinch -Ask the Grinch 10 00:00:26,126 --> 00:00:29,562 Soon he'll be within our reach Ask the Sneetch who's on the winch 11 00:00:32,098 --> 00:00:36,228 Oh, the places you'll go There is fun to be done 12 00:00:36,302 --> 00:00:37,701 There are games to be won 13 00:00:37,771 --> 00:00:38,761 ! said 14 00:00:39,906 --> 00:00:41,567 Oh, the places you'll go 15 00:00:41,641 --> 00:00:44,269 You're off to great places! Today is your day! 16 00:00:44,344 --> 00:00:46,210 Your mountain is waiting 17 00:00:46,279 --> 00:00:47,747 So get on your way! 18 00:00:49,549 --> 00:00:51,847 Oh, the places you'll go 19 00:00:53,086 --> 00:00:54,918 In search of Dr. Seuss 20 00:00:56,089 --> 00:00:57,784 The places we will go 21 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:02,825 Come along with me in search of Dr. Seuss 22 00:01:02,896 --> 00:01:04,625 -Free your mind -Don't lag behind 23 00:01:04,697 --> 00:01:06,131 And fun is what you choose! 24 00:01:06,199 --> 00:01:09,032 Come along with me in search of Dr. Seuss 25 00:01:09,235 --> 00:01:12,136 -Maybe we can find him if we ask the Cat -Ask the Cat 26 00:01:12,205 --> 00:01:13,673 In the Hat 27 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:15,265 -We'll search high -We'll search low 28 00:01:15,341 --> 00:01:17,070 Oh, the places we will go! 29 00:01:33,359 --> 00:01:37,193 -Hello. Is this the home of Dr. Seuss? -Yes. 30 00:01:37,831 --> 00:01:41,290 -Great. My name is Kathy Lane. -Yes? 31 00:01:41,768 --> 00:01:45,136 I'm on assignment from a newspaper. The Ferncrest Times. 32 00:01:47,107 --> 00:01:48,802 Oh, my gosh! What is that? 33 00:01:56,116 --> 00:01:57,777 Oh, my! 34 00:02:00,987 --> 00:02:03,081 This is good. This is great. 35 00:02:03,423 --> 00:02:05,721 Yes, very nice. 36 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:08,919 Not good. Not great. Not nice. 37 00:02:10,730 --> 00:02:14,860 Shameful, but exactly what I would have expected of a journalist. 38 00:02:14,934 --> 00:02:17,562 Listen, I'm sorry. I have this demanding city editor. 39 00:02:17,637 --> 00:02:20,504 Today she's demanding a new angle on the world of Dr. Seuss. 40 00:02:20,573 --> 00:02:21,904 Spaghetti sauce. 41 00:02:23,877 --> 00:02:25,276 Can't have it! 42 00:02:26,713 --> 00:02:28,807 Today, the media snooping around. 43 00:02:28,948 --> 00:02:31,918 Tomorrow, Seuss World. 44 00:02:32,118 --> 00:02:36,316 Ride Horton the elephant. Eat a Grinch-burger. No, ma'am. 45 00:02:36,389 --> 00:02:39,120 You know what, you're absolutely right. Excuse me. 46 00:02:39,192 --> 00:02:41,183 Don't you have a library at the newspaper? 47 00:02:41,261 --> 00:02:43,559 Many articles have been written about Dr. Seuss. 48 00:02:43,630 --> 00:02:46,292 I read every article that's ever been written. 49 00:02:46,366 --> 00:02:49,700 What I need now is the inside scoop. Please? For us? 50 00:02:58,378 --> 00:02:59,903 -For the press. -Okay. 51 00:02:59,979 --> 00:03:02,141 A quick look around and then... 52 00:03:02,215 --> 00:03:05,708 I'm not moving in. I have a deadline, okay? All right. Let's go. 53 00:03:09,856 --> 00:03:12,553 This was his workspace. 54 00:03:12,659 --> 00:03:14,252 His drawings... 55 00:03:15,495 --> 00:03:16,758 his desk. 56 00:03:17,864 --> 00:03:19,593 Get the feeling? Now scat. 57 00:03:19,666 --> 00:03:23,967 Okay, great. That was very informative. Thank you very much. This is good. 58 00:03:24,070 --> 00:03:26,596 You are? What's your name? I need to quote the source. 59 00:03:26,673 --> 00:03:28,903 It's not important who I am. 60 00:03:29,142 --> 00:03:31,110 You don't understand the newspaper business. 61 00:03:31,177 --> 00:03:34,203 I need your name, okay? Credit a source. Read my lips. 62 00:03:42,522 --> 00:03:43,990 Maybe you're right. 63 00:03:44,257 --> 00:03:47,318 I don't need a source. Silly idea, a source. Nice hat. 64 00:03:48,127 --> 00:03:49,720 Look, nice book. 65 00:03:49,829 --> 00:03:52,526 "Open a book, open your imagination. Dr. Seuss." 66 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:55,660 -Don't look. No, not that one. -What? Here? 67 00:04:06,179 --> 00:04:09,581 ! like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells, 68 00:04:09,749 --> 00:04:12,719 Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. 69 00:04:12,785 --> 00:04:16,415 It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... 70 00:04:16,489 --> 00:04:17,718 which is what I do. 71 00:04:17,790 --> 00:04:20,987 And that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities. 72 00:04:32,472 --> 00:04:35,737 -Hello. -You were looking for a story that would... 73 00:04:37,043 --> 00:04:39,410 catapult you out of Ferncrest? 74 00:04:39,479 --> 00:04:43,382 -How did you know I want to get out of- -Juggling the obvious. 75 00:04:44,250 --> 00:04:45,479 It's what we do here. 76 00:04:45,551 --> 00:04:48,384 Here now isn't where here was when I came here. 77 00:04:48,454 --> 00:04:51,253 So why don't we start with "what" rather than "where"? 78 00:04:51,324 --> 00:04:52,689 For instance... 79 00:04:53,092 --> 00:04:56,027 what is the real story on Dr. Seuss? 80 00:04:56,496 --> 00:04:58,396 This is the real story. 81 00:05:02,669 --> 00:05:04,763 And there's no turning back now. 82 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:12,476 What most people don't realize is that he devoted his life to fighting religious... 83 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,646 racial and social injustice. 84 00:05:18,151 --> 00:05:22,247 In his younger days, he did this through his political cartoons, using... 85 00:05:23,456 --> 00:05:25,015 the sledgehammer approach. 86 00:05:25,091 --> 00:05:27,423 I like this. What is this about? 87 00:05:27,894 --> 00:05:30,795 This is one of his political cartoons from PM magazine. 88 00:05:30,863 --> 00:05:33,059 An attack on Hitler's racism. 89 00:05:36,169 --> 00:05:40,436 So that cartoon was to one day become "The Sneetches."� Over here, please. 90 00:05:51,884 --> 00:05:55,252 Okay. Little pink boat, pink sand... 91 00:05:55,321 --> 00:05:57,380 red trees... Very good. 92 00:05:57,924 --> 00:05:58,982 Cat... 93 00:06:10,970 --> 00:06:13,701 Why don't we pause here? 94 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,264 How nice. 95 00:06:15,341 --> 00:06:16,775 -Madam? -Thank you. 96 00:06:24,183 --> 00:06:25,480 "The Sneetches."� 97 00:06:28,121 --> 00:06:31,386 Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars, 98 00:06:31,724 --> 00:06:34,125 The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars. 99 00:06:34,193 --> 00:06:36,821 We're the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches. 100 00:06:36,963 --> 00:06:40,866 The Star-Belly Sneetches kept them away. Never let them come near. 101 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:45,601 And that's how they treated the Plain-Belly Sneetches year after year. 102 00:06:45,838 --> 00:06:50,298 That is, until a stranger approached in the strangest of cars. 103 00:06:50,376 --> 00:06:53,402 My friends, I have seen they've been treating you mean. 104 00:06:53,479 --> 00:06:56,779 My name is Sylvester McMonkey McBean. 105 00:06:57,517 --> 00:07:00,043 I know precisely why you're so unhappy... 106 00:07:00,119 --> 00:07:03,089 and that I can fix. I'm the Fix-it-up-Chappie. 107 00:07:05,391 --> 00:07:08,088 By my new patent process of polarpull toxis... 108 00:07:08,161 --> 00:07:10,357 of the inner subnuclear nusebomb nogotsus... 109 00:07:10,430 --> 00:07:13,127 you'll get a star like the Star-Belly Sneetch. 110 00:07:13,232 --> 00:07:17,135 -A star? Here? -Yes, my friend, there. 111 00:07:17,336 --> 00:07:20,567 And the first to go through gets the trip at half fare. 112 00:07:21,107 --> 00:07:22,438 Thank you. 113 00:07:29,015 --> 00:07:30,608 It works! 114 00:07:31,884 --> 00:07:34,876 When the Plain-Belly Sneetches popped out, they had stars. 115 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:38,049 They actually did. They had stars upon thars. 116 00:07:38,391 --> 00:07:41,622 Ladies and gentlemen, we are faced with a most awkward dilemma. 117 00:07:41,694 --> 00:07:44,527 We're the true Star-Bellies. We had them first. 118 00:07:44,597 --> 00:07:48,124 We're still the best Sneetches, and they're still the worst. 119 00:07:49,635 --> 00:07:53,435 Belly stars, my dear friends, are no longer in style. 120 00:07:53,506 --> 00:07:55,770 And I'll have yours off in a very short while... 121 00:07:55,842 --> 00:07:58,937 in my wondrous machine which eradicates stars. 122 00:07:59,111 --> 00:08:02,376 Then you won't look like Sneetches who have them on thars. 123 00:08:11,624 --> 00:08:13,058 How original. 124 00:08:13,125 --> 00:08:15,958 -How distinctive. -How exclusive. 125 00:08:16,028 --> 00:08:19,658 All the rest of that day, on those wild, screaming beaches... 126 00:08:19,732 --> 00:08:22,633 the Fix-it-up-Chappie kept fixing up Sneetches, 127 00:08:22,969 --> 00:08:25,495 Off again, on again, in again, out again. 128 00:08:25,571 --> 00:08:28,404 Through the machines they raced round and about again... 129 00:08:28,474 --> 00:08:30,909 changing their stars every minute or two... 130 00:08:30,977 --> 00:08:34,072 until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew... 131 00:08:34,146 --> 00:08:37,582 whether this one was that one or that one was this one... 132 00:08:37,650 --> 00:08:40,312 or which one was what one, or what one was who. 133 00:08:42,021 --> 00:08:44,922 Then when every last cent of their money was spent... 134 00:08:44,991 --> 00:08:47,892 the Fix-it-up-Chappie packed up and he went. 135 00:08:48,361 --> 00:08:51,092 And he laughed as he drove his car up the beach. 136 00:08:51,831 --> 00:08:53,424 They never will learn. 137 00:08:53,566 --> 00:08:56,866 No, you can't teach a Sneetch. 138 00:08:57,136 --> 00:08:59,070 But McBearn was quite wrong. 139 00:08:59,138 --> 00:09:03,473 I'm happy to say that the Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. 140 00:09:03,743 --> 00:09:07,077 That day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches... 141 00:09:08,180 --> 00:09:11,411 and no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beach. 142 00:09:12,184 --> 00:09:15,085 "That day all the Sneetches forgot about stars... 143 00:09:15,354 --> 00:09:18,346 "�and whether they had one or not upon thars."� 144 00:09:19,458 --> 00:09:20,721 Great story. 145 00:09:20,860 --> 00:09:23,522 Excuse me, question time. 146 00:09:24,196 --> 00:09:27,427 Did Dr. Seuss experience any of this prejudice firsthand? 147 00:09:28,034 --> 00:09:30,594 In some ways, he was a lot like the Sneetches. 148 00:09:30,703 --> 00:09:33,331 What, he had a star on his belly? Just joking. 149 00:09:33,539 --> 00:09:34,665 Outcast. 150 00:09:35,107 --> 00:09:38,372 He was raised in America, but his parents were German... 151 00:09:38,844 --> 00:09:41,506 which made him an easy target during the First World War. 152 00:09:41,581 --> 00:09:44,175 He was chased home by the local kids yelling "Kaiser"... 153 00:09:44,250 --> 00:09:46,651 and bouncing lumps of coal off his head. 154 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,787 My readers are gonna wanna know more about his early life. What else? 155 00:09:50,890 --> 00:09:55,726 I have a hunch you're going to have some very satisfied readers. 156 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:04,599 Hello! What's going on? 157 00:10:11,243 --> 00:10:12,540 How did you... 158 00:10:13,312 --> 00:10:14,438 Are you... 159 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,780 Just hold on. That must hurt. 160 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:19,016 Are you all right? 161 00:10:19,485 --> 00:10:22,045 Was that ever a wrong hunch. 162 00:10:22,588 --> 00:10:25,057 I'm getting too old for this. 163 00:10:26,926 --> 00:10:28,257 Mr. Hunch. 164 00:10:37,770 --> 00:10:40,000 "Hunches in Bunches." It's you! 165 00:10:40,072 --> 00:10:41,801 Look, I'm so embarrassed. 166 00:10:42,041 --> 00:10:45,011 I didn't know. Where did you come from? 167 00:10:45,778 --> 00:10:49,942 I was fidgeting in my chair, trying to follow a hunch. 168 00:10:50,116 --> 00:10:53,677 It's awfully awful when you can't make up your mind. 169 00:10:53,753 --> 00:10:56,188 -Right. -Do you want to kick a football? 170 00:10:56,255 --> 00:10:59,555 Or sit there on your behind? 171 00:11:00,693 --> 00:11:03,060 Do you want to go out skating? 172 00:11:03,129 --> 00:11:05,257 -Fly a kite? Or climb a tree? -No. 173 00:11:05,364 --> 00:11:07,355 Do you want to eat a pizza? 174 00:11:07,433 --> 00:11:10,027 Or take a bath? Or watch TV? 175 00:11:12,405 --> 00:11:15,306 I followed a down hunch. 176 00:11:16,308 --> 00:11:20,040 So, have you met any other friends of Dr. Seuss'? 177 00:11:21,313 --> 00:11:24,078 You mean like the Cat in the Hat? 178 00:11:29,989 --> 00:11:31,514 He's not here, is he? 179 00:11:32,425 --> 00:11:34,393 No. Unless he's in there. 180 00:11:36,128 --> 00:11:37,960 You never can tell. 181 00:11:38,030 --> 00:11:40,965 He's too mischievous for me. 182 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,931 I've got a hunch he's... 183 00:11:45,304 --> 00:11:46,465 not in here. 184 00:11:47,006 --> 00:11:48,371 You're right. 185 00:11:48,908 --> 00:11:51,468 -I've got a munch hunch. -For what? 186 00:11:52,912 --> 00:11:54,846 Green eggs and ham. 187 00:11:55,281 --> 00:11:57,181 I do not like green eggs and ham. 188 00:11:57,249 --> 00:12:00,879 I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. 189 00:12:00,953 --> 00:12:03,854 I have a hunch you might just change your mind. 190 00:12:03,923 --> 00:12:05,288 I don't think so. 191 00:12:07,026 --> 00:12:10,018 Pineapple-Butterscotch-Ding-Dang-Do. 192 00:12:10,096 --> 00:12:11,621 A ding-a-who? A what? 193 00:12:13,966 --> 00:12:17,129 Three chicken croquettes of library paste... 194 00:12:17,203 --> 00:12:20,298 with peanut shucks pickled and spiced and baked... 195 00:12:20,372 --> 00:12:23,205 at 600 degrees then iced. 196 00:12:23,442 --> 00:12:26,104 Tempting. Very tempting. 197 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,077 Schlopp with a cherry on top. 198 00:12:32,284 --> 00:12:34,116 No, it's too... Okay. 199 00:12:37,690 --> 00:12:39,488 Grinich spinach. 200 00:12:40,526 --> 00:12:42,119 This is for me. 201 00:12:43,028 --> 00:12:44,928 Goose juice or moose juice? 202 00:12:45,030 --> 00:12:47,294 Those are the choices? No cran-apple? 203 00:12:47,967 --> 00:12:49,560 Goose juice is good. Okay. 204 00:12:49,635 --> 00:12:52,468 Moose juice. I got it. 205 00:12:55,875 --> 00:12:59,243 Mr. Hunch, now that it's just the two of us breaking bread together... 206 00:12:59,311 --> 00:13:02,804 I thought maybe I could ask you a couple of questions, if you don't mind. 207 00:13:02,882 --> 00:13:07,513 Like for instance, I heard Dr. Seuss was a very shy, retiring man. Is this true? 208 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:09,310 -No. -No? Sure? 209 00:13:10,723 --> 00:13:14,387 He often described himself as part Cat in the Hat... 210 00:13:14,460 --> 00:13:17,088 wily, a jokester... 211 00:13:17,163 --> 00:13:18,790 and part Grinch. 212 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:23,963 Mr. Hunch, tell me everything you know, and start from the beginning. 213 00:13:24,370 --> 00:13:26,304 -Home-movies time. Ready? -Yes! 214 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:38,207 Ted Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904... 215 00:13:38,284 --> 00:13:39,945 and lived near Mulberry Street, 216 00:13:40,019 --> 00:13:41,544 His father, Theodor... 217 00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:44,487 taught him the importance of self belief and determination. 218 00:13:44,557 --> 00:13:46,924 His dad worked 35 years... 219 00:13:46,992 --> 00:13:49,086 at the Kalmbach and Geisel Brewery. 220 00:13:49,161 --> 00:13:52,358 The day he was promoted to president, Prohibition was declared. 221 00:13:52,431 --> 00:13:56,197 So, he turned to designing the Springfield parks and running the zoo. 222 00:13:56,268 --> 00:13:57,736 He told young Ted: 223 00:13:58,003 --> 00:14:01,871 "�No matter how small the task, always strive for perfection." 224 00:14:02,041 --> 00:14:05,944 His mother, Henrietta Seuss, gave her son his sense of humor... 225 00:14:06,011 --> 00:14:09,345 and the name Seuss. She read to him when he was a baby... 226 00:14:09,415 --> 00:14:12,282 and by the age of six he was reading the classics. 227 00:14:12,818 --> 00:14:16,982 He spent as much time in the Carnegie library as he did at school, 228 00:14:17,256 --> 00:14:20,658 He loved Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson... 229 00:14:20,726 --> 00:14:23,718 but his favorite was Jonathan Swift, 230 00:14:24,063 --> 00:14:27,226 Here's a book inspired by his early family life: 231 00:14:27,299 --> 00:14:29,063 MeckElligot's Pool. 232 00:14:29,134 --> 00:14:32,695 I have a hunch there's more here than meets the eye. 233 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,104 Young man, you're sort of a fool. 234 00:14:37,176 --> 00:14:39,611 You'll never catch fish in McElligot's pool. 235 00:14:39,678 --> 00:14:43,205 The pool is too small. You might as well know it: 236 00:14:43,282 --> 00:14:46,809 When people have junk, here's the place that they throw it. 237 00:14:47,219 --> 00:14:49,620 If you sat 50 years... 238 00:14:49,688 --> 00:14:52,248 with your worms and your wishes... 239 00:14:52,324 --> 00:14:55,783 you'd grow a long beard long before you'd catch fishes. 240 00:14:56,262 --> 00:14:57,787 It may be you're right. 241 00:14:57,863 --> 00:15:00,730 I've been here three hours without one single bite. 242 00:15:00,866 --> 00:15:04,393 There might be no fish, but again, well, there might. 243 00:15:05,170 --> 00:15:07,832 This might be a pool like I've read of in books... 244 00:15:07,907 --> 00:15:10,239 connected to one of those underground brooks. 245 00:15:10,309 --> 00:15:12,471 This might be a river, now mightn't it be... 246 00:15:12,544 --> 00:15:15,206 connecting McElligot's pool to the sea. 247 00:15:15,281 --> 00:15:18,512 Then maybe some fish might be swimming towards me. 248 00:15:19,485 --> 00:15:22,750 I might catch a thin fish. I might catch a stout fish. 249 00:15:22,821 --> 00:15:26,189 I might catch a short or a long drawn-out fish. 250 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:29,854 |/ might catch a fish with a pinwheel-like tail, 251 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:32,990 |/ might catch a fish who has fins like a sail. 252 00:15:33,065 --> 00:15:36,000 I might catch some young ones, some high-jumping friskers. 253 00:15:36,068 --> 00:15:39,163 I might catch an old one with long flowing whiskers. 254 00:15:39,238 --> 00:15:42,139 I might catch a fish with a long curly nose. 255 00:15:42,341 --> 00:15:45,367 I might catch a fish like a rooster that crows. 256 00:15:45,444 --> 00:15:47,913 I might catch a fish with a checkerboard belly. 257 00:15:47,980 --> 00:15:50,711 Or even a fish made of strawberry jelly. 258 00:15:50,983 --> 00:15:54,248 Who wants to catch small ones like mackerel or trout? 259 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:58,484 Say! I'll catch a sawfish with such a long snout... 260 00:15:58,691 --> 00:16:01,626 that he needs an assistant to help him about. 261 00:16:02,861 --> 00:16:06,388 From the world's deepest ocean, from way down below... 262 00:16:06,465 --> 00:16:09,127 from down in the mud where the deep-divers go... 263 00:16:09,201 --> 00:16:11,670 from down in the mire and the muck and the murk... 264 00:16:11,737 --> 00:16:14,331 I might catch some fish who are all going, "Glurk!" 265 00:16:14,406 --> 00:16:16,875 The sea is so full of a number of fish... 266 00:16:16,942 --> 00:16:19,877 if a fellow is patient, he might get his wish. 267 00:16:19,945 --> 00:16:22,437 And that's why I think that I'm not such a fool... 268 00:16:22,514 --> 00:16:25,108 when I sit here and fish in McElligot's pool. 269 00:16:29,788 --> 00:16:31,278 "This book is dedicated... 270 00:16:31,357 --> 00:16:35,089 "to T.R. Geisel of Springfield, Massachusetts,"� his father... 271 00:16:35,227 --> 00:16:39,494 "�the world's greatest authority on blackfish, fiddler crabs and Deegel trout."� 272 00:16:39,565 --> 00:16:42,159 This must be the Deegel trout, right? 273 00:16:42,234 --> 00:16:45,431 One day his father took him trout fishing... 274 00:16:45,504 --> 00:16:48,269 and both of them bragged to family and friends... 275 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:50,934 about how many fish they were going to catch. 276 00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:53,411 And they probably came home with bubkis, right? 277 00:16:53,479 --> 00:16:55,004 Not a minnow. 278 00:16:55,447 --> 00:16:58,610 So on the way home, they stopped off at Deegel's Fish Hatchery... 279 00:16:58,684 --> 00:17:02,382 scooped up the biggest mess of fish they could for $2... 280 00:17:02,454 --> 00:17:04,354 and nobody ever knew the difference. 281 00:17:04,423 --> 00:17:07,120 Nobody ever knew the difference till now. 282 00:17:07,192 --> 00:17:08,990 I love this Deegel trout stuff. 283 00:17:09,728 --> 00:17:10,854 Look! 284 00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:17,901 Horton the elephant. 285 00:17:24,276 --> 00:17:27,007 "Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching an egg:" 286 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:31,744 I'm tired, and I'm bored, and I have kinks in my legs from sitting. 287 00:17:31,817 --> 00:17:34,343 Just sitting here day after day. 288 00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:37,117 It's work. How I hate it! 289 00:17:37,623 --> 00:17:39,523 I'd much rather play. 290 00:17:39,758 --> 00:17:42,250 If I could find someone... 291 00:17:42,327 --> 00:17:44,989 I'd fly away free. 292 00:17:45,364 --> 00:17:48,334 Then Horton the elephant passed by her tree, 293 00:17:51,703 --> 00:17:52,727 Hello. 294 00:17:55,507 --> 00:17:58,636 You've nothing to do, and I do need a rest. 295 00:17:59,344 --> 00:18:02,143 Would you like to sit on the egg in my nest? 296 00:18:02,214 --> 00:18:05,548 Me on your egg? Why, it doesn't make sense. 297 00:18:06,051 --> 00:18:10,010 Your egg is so small, ma'am, and I'm so immense. 298 00:18:11,123 --> 00:18:14,753 I'll hurry right back. Why, I'll never be missed. 299 00:18:14,927 --> 00:18:18,090 Very well, since you insist. 300 00:18:18,363 --> 00:18:22,163 I'll stay and be faithful. I mean what I say. 301 00:18:22,234 --> 00:18:23,224 Toodle-oo! 302 00:18:23,302 --> 00:18:25,771 Sang out Mayzie, and fluttered away. 303 00:18:26,338 --> 00:18:29,638 Then carefully, tenderly, gently he crept... 304 00:18:29,708 --> 00:18:32,973 up the trunk to the nest where the little egg slept. 305 00:18:37,950 --> 00:18:40,783 And he sat all that day and he kept the egg warm. 306 00:18:40,853 --> 00:18:43,914 And he sat all that night through a terrible storm. 307 00:18:43,989 --> 00:18:46,686 And then came the winter, the snow and the sleet... 308 00:18:46,758 --> 00:18:49,125 and icicles hung from his trunk and his feet. 309 00:18:49,194 --> 00:18:51,458 I meant what I said... 310 00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:54,390 and I said what I meant. 311 00:18:54,633 --> 00:18:56,727 An elephant faithful... 312 00:18:57,469 --> 00:18:59,961 one hundred percent. 313 00:19:07,112 --> 00:19:08,477 Gesundheit. 314 00:19:09,648 --> 00:19:12,913 "So poor Horton sat there the whole winter through... 315 00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:15,886 "and then came the springtime with troubles anew. 316 00:19:15,954 --> 00:19:18,889 "His friends gathered round, and they shouted with glee:"� 317 00:19:18,957 --> 00:19:21,858 Look, Horton the elephant's up in a tree! 318 00:19:22,327 --> 00:19:25,262 They laughed and they laughed... 319 00:19:26,298 --> 00:19:28,130 then they all ran away. 320 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:31,235 And Horton was lonely. He wanted to play. 321 00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:35,903 But while Horton sat there, so faithful, so kind... 322 00:19:36,275 --> 00:19:39,609 three hunters came sneaking up softly behind. 323 00:19:39,678 --> 00:19:42,579 He heard the men's footsteps. He turned with a start, 324 00:19:42,648 --> 00:19:45,117 A rifle was aiming right straight at his heart. 325 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:48,415 Did he run? No, not Horton, He stayed on that nest. 326 00:19:48,487 --> 00:19:51,115 He held his head high, he threw out his chest... 327 00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:54,785 and looked at the hunters, and he said plain as day: 328 00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:58,296 Shoot if you must, but I won't run away. 329 00:19:59,932 --> 00:20:02,799 We'll take him away. Why, he's terribly funny. 330 00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:05,735 -We'll sell him back home. -To a circus for money. 331 00:20:05,804 --> 00:20:06,930 Sold to a circus... 332 00:20:07,005 --> 00:20:11,067 and week after week, they showed him to people at 10 cents a peek. 333 00:20:11,543 --> 00:20:13,910 Dawdling along way up high in the sky... 334 00:20:13,979 --> 00:20:17,005 who of all people should chance to fly by? 335 00:20:18,317 --> 00:20:21,844 And she swooped from the clouds through an open tent door, 336 00:20:25,357 --> 00:20:26,825 Good gracious! 337 00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:28,621 I've seen you before! 338 00:20:28,727 --> 00:20:31,355 Poor Horton looked up with his face white as chalk. 339 00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:33,831 He started to speak, but before he could talk... 340 00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:37,062 there rang out the noisiest, ear-splitting squeaks... 341 00:20:37,135 --> 00:20:40,002 from the egg that he'd sat on for 51 weeks. 342 00:20:40,105 --> 00:20:41,573 My egg! 343 00:20:41,940 --> 00:20:44,966 My egg! Why, it's hatching! 344 00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:47,204 It's my egg! 345 00:20:47,279 --> 00:20:51,716 You stole it from me! Get off of my nest and get out of my tree! 346 00:20:52,050 --> 00:20:55,076 Poor Horton backed down with a sad, heavy heart. 347 00:20:55,153 --> 00:20:58,088 But at that very instant, the egg burst apart. 348 00:20:58,423 --> 00:21:01,120 Then Horton the elephant saw something whiz. 349 00:21:01,193 --> 00:21:04,720 It had ears, and a tail and a trunk just like his. 350 00:21:04,796 --> 00:21:06,286 -My goodness! -My gracious! 351 00:21:06,365 --> 00:21:07,730 -Good heavens! -My word! 352 00:21:07,799 --> 00:21:10,962 -It's something brand-new. -It's an elephant-bird. 353 00:21:11,370 --> 00:21:14,305 "Yes, he meant what he said, and he said what he meant."� 354 00:21:14,373 --> 00:21:17,308 And they sent him home happy, one hundred percent. 355 00:21:28,387 --> 00:21:31,254 So, ma'am, what do you think of the Horton story? 356 00:21:31,323 --> 00:21:34,054 It's great. It's true, there's more to being a mom... 357 00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:36,288 than the actual laying of the egg, if you will. 358 00:21:36,361 --> 00:21:39,422 Plus, you don't have to give birth to be a good parent. 359 00:21:39,665 --> 00:21:42,532 Horton is a fine example of courage and loyalty... 360 00:21:42,601 --> 00:21:45,502 two themes that run throughout Dr. Seuss' work. 361 00:21:47,839 --> 00:21:50,001 Where did he learn how to draw? 362 00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:52,701 There were art lessons in high school. 363 00:21:52,778 --> 00:21:55,406 But the teacher wanted him to draw the world as it is... 364 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,778 and Seuss wanted to draw things as he saw them. 365 00:21:57,849 --> 00:22:02,411 So he walked out of class and began drawing for the school paper. 366 00:22:02,854 --> 00:22:05,323 But he really began to draw in Dartmouth College... 367 00:22:05,390 --> 00:22:07,222 and marry words to images. 368 00:22:09,261 --> 00:22:12,561 I know he enrolled in Dartmouth College to become a teacher. 369 00:22:12,631 --> 00:22:14,156 Colleges for ten, Bob, 370 00:22:14,232 --> 00:22:17,634 He wasn't the greatest student, but he had a great sense of humor. 371 00:22:17,703 --> 00:22:21,606 It even helped him become editor of the school paper, the Jack-o-Lantern, 372 00:22:21,740 --> 00:22:25,199 The Roaring '20s must have been an excellent time for comedy writers, 373 00:22:25,277 --> 00:22:28,838 Mais oui! Lots of good material. Like the new jazz... 374 00:22:28,914 --> 00:22:32,248 the forerunner to the Beatles, and the new liquor laws, 375 00:22:32,317 --> 00:22:35,582 Wait a minute! Where did he get the name Dr. Seuss? 376 00:22:36,221 --> 00:22:38,952 Remember, this was the era of Prohibition. 377 00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:44,460 One night, he, 10 students, and a pint of gin were in his dorm room... 378 00:22:44,529 --> 00:22:47,362 when the local chief of police walked in. 379 00:22:47,466 --> 00:22:49,298 Seuss was busted for cocktails? 380 00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:52,303 When the dean discharged him as editor of the Jack-o-Lantern... 381 00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:55,306 he assumed his mother's maiden name, Seuss... 382 00:22:55,374 --> 00:22:57,775 and continued submitting cartoons. 383 00:22:58,777 --> 00:23:00,506 But it wasn't his only pen name. 384 00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:04,243 In later years, there were 13 books under the name T. LeSieg. 385 00:23:04,316 --> 00:23:05,647 What? 386 00:23:06,852 --> 00:23:10,811 -"Geisel" spelled backwards. -What a kook. Wait up. 387 00:23:37,883 --> 00:23:40,181 I thought you were the Cat in the Hat. 388 00:23:40,485 --> 00:23:42,419 -The Cat in the Hat? -It's her. 389 00:23:44,222 --> 00:23:45,314 She's here. 390 00:23:48,193 --> 00:23:49,820 Hello. Where is here? 391 00:23:49,895 --> 00:23:52,956 Here is where Dr. Seuss spent a great deal of his life. 392 00:23:53,765 --> 00:23:54,755 -The... -World.. 393 00:23:54,833 --> 00:23:56,096 -Of... -Advertising. 394 00:23:56,168 --> 00:23:59,001 -Commercials? -Those, too. 395 00:23:59,070 --> 00:24:01,505 -My dear, you've never heard of... -Flit? 396 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,734 Flit is cheese crackers. 397 00:24:03,809 --> 00:24:08,110 -No. Flit is...an insecticide? -You've got it. 398 00:24:11,149 --> 00:24:14,346 The insecticide of the day. Thanks to Dr. Seuss, of course... 399 00:24:14,419 --> 00:24:17,013 who created the ads for Flit for 17 years... 400 00:24:17,489 --> 00:24:19,787 from newspapers to animated cartoons. 401 00:24:23,695 --> 00:24:26,528 "Quick, Henry, the Flit." Ring a bell? 402 00:24:28,099 --> 00:24:29,863 No. Sorry. 403 00:24:31,169 --> 00:24:32,159 Oh, boy. 404 00:24:34,206 --> 00:24:35,435 There we are. 405 00:24:37,542 --> 00:24:39,010 How about the Seuss Navy? 406 00:24:39,077 --> 00:24:42,638 In the 1930s, it was the largest navy in the world. 407 00:24:42,948 --> 00:24:44,882 The Seuss Navy? You're joking. 408 00:24:44,950 --> 00:24:48,887 No joke. The Seuss Navy was his promotional brainstorm. 409 00:24:48,954 --> 00:24:53,016 He created it for Standard Oil's Essomarine, a lubricant for boats. 410 00:24:53,091 --> 00:24:56,117 -He printed diplomas and gave them... -To prominent people. 411 00:24:56,194 --> 00:24:58,288 Within months, he was besieged with requests... 412 00:24:58,363 --> 00:25:01,697 From celebrities, even the Standard Oil fleet, even the Queen Mary. 413 00:25:01,766 --> 00:25:04,167 -Stop, please. -Going too fast? 414 00:25:04,236 --> 00:25:06,864 No, it's just that the swaying... 415 00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:10,039 makes me a little ill. 416 00:25:15,914 --> 00:25:18,178 According to my notes, after... 417 00:25:25,023 --> 00:25:28,391 After Dartmouth is when he went into advertising, right? 418 00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:30,155 -Absolutely... -Not. 419 00:25:30,862 --> 00:25:32,421 Where did he go? 420 00:25:33,098 --> 00:25:37,501 He went to Oxford to study and experience the beauty of... 421 00:25:37,836 --> 00:25:39,827 -Literature. -One for the lady. 422 00:25:39,905 --> 00:25:43,364 -Woman. -But the analysis of Gothic literature... 423 00:25:45,443 --> 00:25:47,935 didn't interest him. He wanted to... 424 00:25:55,420 --> 00:25:58,981 He wanted to experience life rather than dissect it. 425 00:25:59,057 --> 00:26:02,459 In one class, he met an American student, Helen Palmer... 426 00:26:02,527 --> 00:26:05,155 -Whom he later married. -It was a very boring class... 427 00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:08,222 on the punctuation of Shakespeare's play King Lear. 428 00:26:11,036 --> 00:26:15,439 Teddy, that's a very lovely flying cow you've drawn. 429 00:26:17,008 --> 00:26:18,533 Thank you, Helen. 430 00:26:18,610 --> 00:26:22,410 Stop burying yourself in Shakespeare's semicolons... 431 00:26:23,114 --> 00:26:25,344 and go out and see the world. 432 00:26:29,754 --> 00:26:30,812 Hello? 433 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:33,115 Let's move on. 434 00:26:36,695 --> 00:26:37,719 Thank you. 435 00:26:37,796 --> 00:26:41,426 So he quits Oxford, and he spends several months traveling Europe. 436 00:26:41,499 --> 00:26:43,593 Answer me this. Did he... 437 00:26:44,135 --> 00:26:46,536 Did he ever actually acquire his doctorate? 438 00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,539 -Absolutely... -Not. 439 00:26:49,274 --> 00:26:50,571 I hate you. 440 00:26:50,642 --> 00:26:55,170 But he acquires a whole new philosophy about life. 441 00:26:55,714 --> 00:26:59,776 He decides that most adults take life much too seriously. 442 00:27:00,218 --> 00:27:04,155 And he vows to retain a child's perspective on life. 443 00:27:04,589 --> 00:27:07,456 View the world without a social pressure gauge. 444 00:27:07,525 --> 00:27:09,721 Let the imagination run free. 445 00:27:09,828 --> 00:27:13,731 React and experience from an honest gut level. Enjoy a good laugh. 446 00:27:21,106 --> 00:27:23,404 1927, New York. 447 00:27:23,742 --> 00:27:28,077 He finally lands a job at Judge magazine. He marries Helen. 448 00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:31,673 But due to the recession, his salary drops to $40 a week. 449 00:27:32,183 --> 00:27:35,175 Judge magazine becomes his real graduate school, 450 00:27:35,253 --> 00:27:38,120 It's where he learns his craft, and develops a style... 451 00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:42,387 and a gallery of characters that become his repertory company for life. 452 00:27:42,761 --> 00:27:47,130 He creates Boids and Beasties, a series of scientific satires like 453 00:27:59,644 --> 00:28:03,308 Science by Seuss, so he signs them Dr, Seuss. 454 00:28:03,381 --> 00:28:06,009 That's where "Dr." came from. Hallelujah! 455 00:28:06,484 --> 00:28:09,146 One day, in drawing a cartoon, he tosses a coin... 456 00:28:09,287 --> 00:28:11,517 to see which bug killer he'll use in the caption. 457 00:28:16,561 --> 00:28:19,360 The wife of a Flit ad exec sees the cartoon... 458 00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:22,594 and suggests Dr. Seuss be signed to a high-paying position... 459 00:28:22,667 --> 00:28:25,466 in Standard Oil's advertising department. 460 00:28:25,904 --> 00:28:29,033 And so he becomes a commercial artist for Standard Oil. 461 00:28:29,107 --> 00:28:31,474 But money in the bank doesn't make him happy. 462 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:34,444 He soon regrets seeing his cartoons and advertising slogans... 463 00:28:34,512 --> 00:28:37,106 disappear within a week. So he leaves. 464 00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:41,778 Brave man. It's very difficult freelancing during depression. 465 00:28:41,853 --> 00:28:44,254 There's something to be said for a steady job. 466 00:28:44,322 --> 00:28:46,552 -Two for the lady. -Woman. 467 00:28:47,992 --> 00:28:50,051 He rejoins his friends at Standard Oil. 468 00:28:50,128 --> 00:28:54,361 But in his contract he has one small loophole that is to change his life. 469 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:57,735 -Writing children's books. -Grand slam, home run/ 470 00:28:57,802 --> 00:28:58,826 Really? 471 00:29:00,538 --> 00:29:04,668 Come. He experiments with two children's books without much success. 472 00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:08,179 However, in 1936, he and his wife, Helen... 473 00:29:08,246 --> 00:29:10,613 are returning from a European vacation... 474 00:29:10,682 --> 00:29:13,344 Aboard the passenger liner MS Kungsholm... 475 00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:15,182 In a blistering storm. 476 00:29:15,854 --> 00:29:18,414 To take his mind off the rocking and the rolling... 477 00:29:18,490 --> 00:29:21,926 The rolling and the rocking, he writes a story. 478 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:25,930 I can't rock and roll anymore. Just one moment, please. 479 00:29:26,097 --> 00:29:29,931 The rhythm of the ship's engines echo throughout the liner. 480 00:29:36,541 --> 00:29:39,511 This rhythm hypnotizes him, and he writes... 481 00:29:40,145 --> 00:29:43,410 And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. 482 00:29:50,288 --> 00:29:52,723 Bon voyage, young lady! 483 00:29:53,024 --> 00:29:57,120 -May the wind be in your sail! -Yeah, the wind up your sail. Bye. 484 00:29:57,428 --> 00:30:00,420 And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street 485 00:30:00,532 --> 00:30:02,660 And I Mulberry shrink and I think 486 00:30:06,004 --> 00:30:08,735 I'm gonna puke and I saw and I think it 487 00:30:10,441 --> 00:30:13,433 ! think I cheated on Pickleberry Street 488 00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:17,512 My goodness. 489 00:30:18,116 --> 00:30:20,141 Excuse me, can I share this bench with you? 490 00:30:20,218 --> 00:30:22,744 I've just had a very rough trip. Don't ask. 491 00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:25,718 That's better. 492 00:30:26,391 --> 00:30:29,326 -Hi, I'm Kathy. -My name's Marco. 493 00:30:29,761 --> 00:30:31,490 What's the matter, Marco? 494 00:30:32,597 --> 00:30:36,431 Whenever I leave home to walk to school, my dad always says to me: 495 00:30:36,501 --> 00:30:40,199 "Marco, son, keep your eyelids open. See what you can see."� 496 00:30:40,305 --> 00:30:42,137 And what's wrong with that? 497 00:30:42,473 --> 00:30:44,942 When I tell him what I think I've seen... 498 00:30:45,009 --> 00:30:48,843 he always looks at me and sternly says: "Your eyesight's much too keen. 499 00:30:48,913 --> 00:30:52,975 "Stop telling such outlandish tales, and stop turning minnows into whales."� 500 00:30:54,319 --> 00:30:56,481 What can I say when I get home tonight? 501 00:30:56,554 --> 00:30:58,818 All that I've noticed, except my own feet... 502 00:30:58,890 --> 00:31:01,757 was just a horse and a wagon on Mulberry Street. 503 00:31:04,662 --> 00:31:06,460 What would you like to see? 504 00:31:09,701 --> 00:31:12,534 That's nothing to tell of. That won't do, of course. 505 00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:15,403 Just a broken-down wagon that's drawn by a horse. 506 00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:18,271 That can't be my story. That's only a start, 507 00:31:18,343 --> 00:31:21,005 I'll say that a zebra was pulling that cart. 508 00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:22,774 That's a story that no one can beat... 509 00:31:22,847 --> 00:31:25,214 when you say that you saw it on Mulberry Street. 510 00:31:25,783 --> 00:31:28,775 Yes, the zebra is fine, but I think it's a shame... 511 00:31:28,853 --> 00:31:31,413 such a marvelous beast with a cart that's so tame. 512 00:31:31,489 --> 00:31:33,719 The story would really be better to hear... 513 00:31:33,791 --> 00:31:36,317 if the driver I saw were a charioteer. 514 00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:38,822 A gold-and-blue chariot's something to meet... 515 00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:41,662 rumbling like thunder down Mulberry Street, 516 00:31:42,533 --> 00:31:46,197 No. It won't do at all, because a zebra's much too small. 517 00:31:46,938 --> 00:31:48,303 A reindeer is better. 518 00:31:48,373 --> 00:31:52,105 It's fast and it's fleet. It'd look mighty smart on old Mulberry Street, 519 00:31:52,176 --> 00:31:54,406 Hold on a minute. There's something wrong. 520 00:31:54,479 --> 00:31:57,779 A reindeer hates the way it feels to pull a thing that runs on wheels. 521 00:31:57,849 --> 00:32:01,285 He'd be much happier instead if he could pull a fancy sled. 522 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,857 A reindeer and a sleigh. But it isn't too late to make one little change. 523 00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:09,360 -A sleigh and an elephant! -Now, there's something strange. 524 00:32:09,427 --> 00:32:12,624 Yeah. I'll pick one with plenty of power and size... 525 00:32:12,697 --> 00:32:15,291 a blue one with plenty of fun in his eyes. 526 00:32:15,833 --> 00:32:19,792 It does make a story no one can beat, when I say I saw it on Mulberry Street. 527 00:32:19,871 --> 00:32:22,670 And then, just to give it a little more tone... 528 00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:25,801 a rajah with rubies perched high on a throne. 529 00:32:25,877 --> 00:32:29,404 Yes, but he'd look something grand with a great big brass band. 530 00:32:42,527 --> 00:32:46,191 Now, what worries me is this: Mulberry Street just runs into Bliss. 531 00:32:46,864 --> 00:32:49,390 Unless there's something that you can fix up... 532 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:51,765 there'll be an awful traffic mix-up. 533 00:32:51,836 --> 00:32:53,736 It takes police to do the trick. 534 00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:56,638 And they'll never crash now. They'll race at top speed... 535 00:32:56,708 --> 00:32:59,609 with Sgt. Mulvaney himself in the lead. 536 00:32:59,677 --> 00:33:02,169 And the Mayor's there. He thinks it's grand... 537 00:33:02,246 --> 00:33:05,079 and he raises his hat as they dash by the stand. 538 00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:07,982 With a roar of its motor an airplane appears. 539 00:33:08,886 --> 00:33:11,617 And it dumps out confetti while everyone cheers, 540 00:33:13,524 --> 00:33:15,720 And that's a story that no one can beat. 541 00:33:15,793 --> 00:33:18,091 When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street, 542 00:33:20,131 --> 00:33:23,192 There's so much to tell. I just couldn't begin. 543 00:33:23,301 --> 00:33:26,236 Dad'll look at me sharply, and he'll pull out his chin. 544 00:33:26,304 --> 00:33:28,671 He'll frown at me sternly from there in his seat: 545 00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:31,903 "Was there nothing to look at? No people to greet? 546 00:33:31,976 --> 00:33:35,105 "Did nothing excite you or make your heart beat?"� 547 00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:37,679 And what will you say? 548 00:33:38,616 --> 00:33:41,415 "Nothing," I'll say, growing red as a beet... 549 00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:44,113 "But a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street."� 550 00:33:44,288 --> 00:33:46,017 Hey, Marco, babe. 551 00:33:46,090 --> 00:33:48,957 You've got a great imagination, all right? Don't change. 552 00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:52,463 -Stay as sweet as you are. Don't grow old. -Yeah, like my dad. 553 00:33:53,131 --> 00:33:56,066 You gotta give him a break. Sometimes when you're an adult... 554 00:33:56,134 --> 00:33:58,762 other things become important, you forget how to laugh. 555 00:33:58,836 --> 00:34:01,100 -You have responsibilities- -Gotta go. 556 00:34:01,205 --> 00:34:02,263 Bye. 557 00:34:07,845 --> 00:34:11,611 Good morning, ma'am. Sgt. Mulvaney at your service! 558 00:34:13,951 --> 00:34:16,352 -Are you all right, miss? -Ms. 559 00:34:17,422 --> 00:34:19,789 I'm fine. I'm just a little confused. 560 00:34:20,358 --> 00:34:24,022 Why would Marco's father purposely want him to be boring? 561 00:34:24,929 --> 00:34:27,421 That's not so simple now, is it? 562 00:34:27,732 --> 00:34:30,326 Marco's father was not a bad man. 563 00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:34,861 Dr. Seuss created him because he knew that adults and teachers... 564 00:34:34,939 --> 00:34:38,398 didn't realize how they could smother the imagination. 565 00:34:38,943 --> 00:34:41,913 Smother it, rather than mother it. 566 00:34:42,046 --> 00:34:46,711 -I don't imagine that was an easy sell. -That was the challenge, don't you see? 567 00:34:46,784 --> 00:34:50,220 He knew that it was something that people did not want to hear... 568 00:34:50,288 --> 00:34:52,985 but he was determined to push it through. 569 00:34:53,391 --> 00:34:56,793 When Irish eyes are smiling 570 00:34:56,861 --> 00:35:00,729 Sure it's like a morn in spring 571 00:35:00,798 --> 00:35:02,789 In the Jilt 572 00:35:03,634 --> 00:35:07,434 Now what do I have here? I have the manuscript... 573 00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:11,569 -of Mulberry Street. -For me? How sweet. Thank you. 574 00:35:12,443 --> 00:35:14,172 Let's say, for now. 575 00:35:14,979 --> 00:35:17,710 Now be a pal, and walk through that door. 576 00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:20,543 You're not serious? 577 00:35:20,718 --> 00:35:23,278 Hello? There's nothing on the other side of the door. 578 00:35:23,354 --> 00:35:26,619 Is that Marco's father that I be hearing? 579 00:35:27,325 --> 00:35:30,659 Remember, nothing can be anything... 580 00:35:30,728 --> 00:35:34,596 or something, or everything where Dr. Seuss is involved. 581 00:35:35,399 --> 00:35:38,699 Okay. So, I guess this is goodbye. 582 00:35:45,409 --> 00:35:47,468 He's in a meeting. He'll get back to you. 583 00:35:47,545 --> 00:35:49,513 -Not for us. Really. -No thanks. 584 00:35:49,580 --> 00:35:52,550 -If you are, we'll call you. -It's a nice try, but... 585 00:35:57,722 --> 00:35:59,417 Stop this thing! 586 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:13,261 Let me see your badge. What was that all about? 587 00:36:13,638 --> 00:36:18,132 With Mulberry Street in hand, he went through that door 27 times... 588 00:36:18,209 --> 00:36:20,644 and every publisher rejected it. 589 00:36:20,978 --> 00:36:24,846 At this point I think he should have been thinking "career change."� 590 00:36:26,050 --> 00:36:29,020 But he had no grand delusions... 591 00:36:29,086 --> 00:36:32,522 about what others would think of his work. Oh, no. 592 00:36:32,590 --> 00:36:36,049 He knew that that one solitary voice... 593 00:36:36,127 --> 00:36:38,789 was still out there, and he was determined to find it. 594 00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:42,390 He'd pick himself up, brush himself down, and begin again. 595 00:36:42,466 --> 00:36:44,958 And on that happy note, I'll be off. 596 00:36:45,469 --> 00:36:49,497 But you have ahead of you a walloping world of wonders. 597 00:36:49,807 --> 00:36:50,933 Enjoy it. 598 00:36:52,843 --> 00:36:53,867 Wait. 599 00:36:54,645 --> 00:36:56,340 Watch out for the door. 600 00:36:57,448 --> 00:37:00,474 On second thought, be my guest. 601 00:37:00,818 --> 00:37:04,311 If you believe in something, my dear, never give up on it. 602 00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:21,334 Wait. Sergeant. 603 00:37:34,485 --> 00:37:36,078 Again! 604 00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:43,284 Hello. So glad you could drop by. Where have you been? 605 00:37:43,594 --> 00:37:48,464 -You were with Mulvaney. -Yes, and he was lovely. 606 00:37:49,133 --> 00:37:52,467 -Did he do his famous revolving door trick? -Yes. 607 00:37:52,670 --> 00:37:56,300 -I found it quite exhilarating. -Really? 608 00:37:57,608 --> 00:38:00,600 -It was mine originally, you know. -Was it? 609 00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:04,612 Now, don't be jealous. He was just quite taken... 610 00:38:04,682 --> 00:38:08,812 with the great success of Mulberry Street. Apparently, he was featured in it. 611 00:38:09,086 --> 00:38:12,351 That's Mulvaney. It was a success... 612 00:38:12,423 --> 00:38:17,293 but not great enough to allow Dr. Seuss the opportunity to quit the ad world. 613 00:38:17,461 --> 00:38:21,022 You're kidding. Still? What does the man have to do? 614 00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:29,235 I don't know about you, but about this time I'm thinking: 615 00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:32,038 -"Bye. Let's go." All right? -You scared y-cat! 616 00:38:32,209 --> 00:38:33,836 It was that kind of time. 617 00:38:33,911 --> 00:38:36,812 -Cat-astrophic. -I want to go, really. 618 00:38:37,948 --> 00:38:40,440 World War ll had just broken out in Europe. 619 00:38:40,518 --> 00:38:44,887 Dr. Seuss was about to take a seven-year break from the ad world and his writing. 620 00:38:45,423 --> 00:38:46,686 I know this. 621 00:38:47,258 --> 00:38:50,455 This is one of his political cartoons from PM magazine. 622 00:38:50,528 --> 00:38:53,327 You showed me something like this in the tower, right? 623 00:38:53,397 --> 00:38:55,889 I see you've been paying attention. 624 00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:02,238 Dr. Seuss felt Hitler was a real threat to the entire world and had to be stopped. 625 00:39:02,306 --> 00:39:04,741 These were the only angry pictures he ever drew. 626 00:39:04,809 --> 00:39:08,609 But he felt it necessary to take that old sledgehammer approach. 627 00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:20,522 I know this. Mayzie, Horton, and the elephant-bird, right? 628 00:39:22,326 --> 00:39:24,988 The GOP, or Republican Party, and the Isolationists... 629 00:39:25,062 --> 00:39:27,554 complained that the US. should stay out of the war. 630 00:39:27,631 --> 00:39:30,259 Seuss drew their squawking child, the GOPstrich. 631 00:39:30,334 --> 00:39:32,496 "Don't get involved!"� 632 00:39:33,337 --> 00:39:36,932 These images are so intense. I wouldn't have expected this from Dr. Seuss. 633 00:39:37,007 --> 00:39:39,601 -Good material for your story. -Excellent material. 634 00:39:39,677 --> 00:39:42,874 You know what's amazing? He combined real-life political figures... 635 00:39:42,947 --> 00:39:44,506 with his animated characters. 636 00:39:44,582 --> 00:39:47,313 Many were to have another life in his children's books. 637 00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:48,853 Yertle the Turtle. 638 00:39:48,919 --> 00:39:52,378 Dr. Seuss was warning factory workers who produced military weaponry... 639 00:39:52,456 --> 00:39:55,790 that if they didn't move faster than turtles, we'd never see victory. 640 00:39:57,261 --> 00:40:00,822 -What is going on? -Maybe we'd better duck in here. 641 00:40:12,843 --> 00:40:14,140 Hello? 642 00:40:17,114 --> 00:40:19,412 I don't think there's anyone here. 643 00:40:19,850 --> 00:40:21,750 Hello, is anyone here? 644 00:40:22,820 --> 00:40:24,288 What do you... 645 00:40:29,126 --> 00:40:30,855 You are gone again. 646 00:40:31,929 --> 00:40:33,988 Okay, all right. 647 00:40:35,166 --> 00:40:38,864 All right, carry on. I got a front page story right in here. 648 00:40:40,871 --> 00:40:45,365 Hello, room. I am friendly, and I'd like to speak to you. 649 00:40:46,410 --> 00:40:49,971 If you want to shed some light on the situation, pull the cord. 650 00:40:53,250 --> 00:40:54,581 That's it 651 00:40:55,352 --> 00:40:58,481 There you go, Welcome to the Fort Fox editing room. 652 00:41:00,591 --> 00:41:02,958 -Front-page story. -I'm over here on the shelf. 653 00:41:03,027 --> 00:41:04,893 -Right over here. -This is amazing. 654 00:41:04,962 --> 00:41:06,487 -Here! -You? 655 00:41:06,564 --> 00:41:09,056 No, not the mouse, Here. 656 00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:13,034 That's Capt, Geisel with the Army's documentary filmmaking unit. 657 00:41:13,103 --> 00:41:14,832 Come on, over here. 658 00:41:15,072 --> 00:41:16,801 Little closer, Left, 659 00:41:19,009 --> 00:41:22,309 -There you go. -What? The radio? 660 00:41:22,379 --> 00:41:24,711 Don't get too excited. Yeah, the radio. 661 00:41:25,082 --> 00:41:28,677 Okay. You're not gonna ask me for an oilcan or something, are you? 662 00:41:28,752 --> 00:41:31,653 Very funny. No. You're listening to the Voice of America. 663 00:41:31,722 --> 00:41:33,952 We started in WWII, and we're still on the air. 664 00:41:34,024 --> 00:41:36,823 Like Soul Train. What can I do for you? 665 00:41:38,429 --> 00:41:41,091 You can start by giving me the scoop... 666 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:44,863 on everything related to Dr. Seuss in wartime. 667 00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:48,097 Okay, dollface. Yeah, 'cause I like you, 668 00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:50,664 Maybe later I'll show you my transmitter. 669 00:41:50,841 --> 00:41:53,867 Over on the desk, there's some scripts. Read one. 670 00:41:53,944 --> 00:41:56,003 -Take a look at it. -Really? 671 00:41:56,146 --> 00:41:59,241 Listen, I saw a microphone over there, and I... 672 00:41:59,316 --> 00:42:02,684 Everybody loves a microphone., Go ahead. Enjoy yourself. 673 00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:06,847 Right over there. Knock yourself out, 674 00:42:06,924 --> 00:42:08,722 Testing. Is this on? 675 00:42:13,697 --> 00:42:16,359 -Miss Fitzgerald! -All right. 676 00:42:17,768 --> 00:42:21,068 "As World War ll began, Dr. Seuss became Capt. Geisel... 677 00:42:21,138 --> 00:42:24,472 "working at Hollywood's Fort Fox under Colonel Frank Capra... 678 00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:26,237 "director of It's 2 Wonderful Life. 679 00:42:26,310 --> 00:42:28,711 "Geisel produced a series of indoctrination films... 680 00:42:28,779 --> 00:42:30,838 "hat earned him a Legion of Merit Award." 681 00:42:30,915 --> 00:42:34,818 -It's a very impressive award. -"In 1944, he was transferred to Europe. 682 00:42:34,885 --> 00:42:37,320 "While serving in France, he commandeered a jeep... 683 00:42:37,388 --> 00:42:42,349 "to observe frontline action. He ended up in a quaint little town named Bastogne." 684 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,224 It wasn't that quaint, It was the important Battle of the Bulge. 685 00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:51,468 "In 1946, a Warner Brothers release was written by Ted and Helen Geisel. 686 00:42:51,702 --> 00:42:55,366 "It won an Academy Award: Best Documentary, short subject."� 687 00:42:55,439 --> 00:42:58,636 -That's very impressive. -You're telling me. You wanna see some? 688 00:42:58,709 --> 00:43:02,236 Flick that projector on, please. Here are excerpts from that documentary. 689 00:43:02,313 --> 00:43:05,681 It's called Hitler Lives. Put it on. Right there. 690 00:43:05,783 --> 00:43:09,913 Who would think that Dr, Seuss would have done something like this? 691 00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:33,475 1945, The problem now is future peace. 692 00:43:33,911 --> 00:43:36,175 Nazi Germany today appears to be beaten. 693 00:43:36,246 --> 00:43:39,079 Hitler out. Swastikas gone. 694 00:43:39,583 --> 00:43:43,019 It's still enemy country. We must still be alert, 695 00:43:43,687 --> 00:43:47,385 Somewhere in Germany are the SS Guards out of uniform... 696 00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:49,552 the storm troopers by the thousands., 697 00:43:49,627 --> 00:43:52,324 The two million ex-Nazi officials out of power... 698 00:43:52,396 --> 00:43:56,026 but still thinking, and thinking about next time. 699 00:43:56,467 --> 00:43:59,129 However free of the Nazi party they may seem... 700 00:43:59,203 --> 00:44:01,695 they cannot come back into the civilized world... 701 00:44:01,772 --> 00:44:05,299 just by sticking their hand out and saying, "We're sorry."� 702 00:44:06,110 --> 00:44:09,705 Not sorry they caused the war, but only sorry they lost it, 703 00:44:10,614 --> 00:44:14,608 Someday the Nazis of Germany might be cured of the super-race disease... 704 00:44:14,685 --> 00:44:17,052 the world-conquest disease, 705 00:44:17,121 --> 00:44:20,113 But this must be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, 706 00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:22,352 The voices of millions of dead cry out. 707 00:44:22,426 --> 00:44:25,452 "This time we must not have died in vain."� 708 00:44:26,363 --> 00:44:29,264 We are determined that the Nazi plans for world conquest... 709 00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:31,301 shall stop here and now. 710 00:44:32,403 --> 00:44:36,101 Right here in America, advocates of fascism live amongst us. 711 00:44:36,306 --> 00:44:40,368 They wear many guises as they continue with Hitler's aims and purposes... 712 00:44:40,444 --> 00:44:44,005 spreading the propaganda of race, hatred, and violence. 713 00:44:44,081 --> 00:44:45,879 No small men must be permitted... 714 00:44:45,949 --> 00:44:49,442 to break down the democratic ideals of the youth of our nation... 715 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,455 where children of all races can meet on common ground... 716 00:44:52,523 --> 00:44:57,461 inspired by a heritage of clean living, and the principles of fair play and honor. 717 00:44:57,528 --> 00:45:00,520 The people themselves must so earnestly desire peace... 718 00:45:00,597 --> 00:45:03,965 that we will not only demand it, but work for it incessantly. 719 00:45:04,034 --> 00:45:07,902 Then only will be created a sound heritage that shall be guaranteed... 720 00:45:07,971 --> 00:45:10,531 for the sons and daughters of the living and dead... 721 00:45:10,607 --> 00:45:13,804 who truly earned the fruits their children are entitled ta reap... 722 00:45:13,877 --> 00:45:15,675 in the united world of tomorrow. 723 00:45:15,746 --> 00:45:18,909 The world of lasting freedom between all nations. 724 00:45:25,222 --> 00:45:27,850 That must have had a major impact in its time. 725 00:45:28,292 --> 00:45:32,126 He didn't want anyone to forget what had happened, and what could happen again. 726 00:45:32,196 --> 00:45:35,860 An interesting thing. His original drawings of Yertle the Turtle... 727 00:45:35,933 --> 00:45:38,561 had a little Hitler mustache and wore a Nazi uniform. 728 00:45:38,635 --> 00:45:39,932 You're kidding. 729 00:45:40,838 --> 00:45:42,397 What's going on? What's that? 730 00:45:42,473 --> 00:45:44,464 -Something's going on. -Is that a malfunction? 731 00:45:44,541 --> 00:45:46,635 -Like a wire-shortage thing? -Better get out of here! 732 00:46:50,841 --> 00:46:54,368 If] should sit high how much greater I'd be/ 733 00:46:54,578 --> 00:46:58,208 What a king! I'd be ruler of all I could see 734 00:47:06,490 --> 00:47:10,222 I'm Yertle the Turtle Oh, marvelous me! 735 00:47:10,294 --> 00:47:14,390 For I am the ruler of all that I see 736 00:47:22,739 --> 00:47:26,539 Yo, King Yertle, my name's the Mack I come from the bottom of the turtle stack 737 00:47:26,610 --> 00:47:30,638 I got pains in my back and knees How much longer, Your Majesty? 738 00:47:30,714 --> 00:47:32,910 I know you're the king but I gotta complain 739 00:47:32,983 --> 00:47:36,817 The crew down here is in a lot of pain Up at the top, you're seeing great sights 740 00:47:36,887 --> 00:47:39,117 But down at the bottom we, too, have rights 741 00:47:39,189 --> 00:47:40,452 You hush your mouth 742 00:47:42,693 --> 00:47:46,254 You've no right to talk to the world's highest turtle 743 00:47:46,763 --> 00:47:50,199 I rule aver clouds, over land, over sea 744 00:47:50,267 --> 00:47:54,295 And there's nothing, no, nothing that's higher than me 745 00:47:55,439 --> 00:47:57,305 No! 746 00:47:57,374 --> 00:48:00,400 -Nothing higher than he -Nothing 747 00:48:00,477 --> 00:48:02,809 While he was shouting he saw with surprise 748 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,908 The moon of the evening started to rise over his head in the darkening skies 749 00:48:06,984 --> 00:48:08,008 What's that? 750 00:48:08,085 --> 00:48:09,348 Shouted Yertle 751 00:48:09,553 --> 00:48:12,284 Say, what is that thing? 752 00:48:12,656 --> 00:48:17,526 That dares to be higher than Yertle the King? 753 00:48:19,363 --> 00:48:24,267 I'll call some more turtles and I'll stack them right to heaven 754 00:48:25,702 --> 00:48:30,663 1/ think I'll need about 5,607 755 00:48:31,508 --> 00:48:36,503 As Yertle, the Turtle King, lifted his hand 756 00:48:37,681 --> 00:48:42,642 and started to order and give the command 757 00:48:43,587 --> 00:48:48,320 that plain little turtle whose name was just Mack 758 00:48:49,359 --> 00:48:53,387 decided he'd taken enough and he had 759 00:48:55,666 --> 00:49:00,126 And that plain little lad got a little bit mad 760 00:49:00,704 --> 00:49:03,366 And that plain little Mack 761 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,803 did a plain little thing 762 00:49:08,211 --> 00:49:09,542 He burped. 763 00:49:38,308 --> 00:49:41,539 Turtles, of course The turtles are free 764 00:49:41,611 --> 00:49:45,104 As turtles are free All creatures should be 765 00:49:45,182 --> 00:49:49,619 As turtles are free maybe all creatures should be 766 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,517 Turtles, of course Turtles are free 767 00:49:53,590 --> 00:49:57,424 As turtles are free maybe all creatures should be 768 00:50:14,011 --> 00:50:17,743 Hallelujah, now, turtles, of course All turtles are free 769 00:50:17,814 --> 00:50:20,374 And turtles are free as turtles should be 770 00:50:20,450 --> 00:50:23,681 -I thought you'd never get here. -I'm here. Where am I? 771 00:50:23,754 --> 00:50:25,518 Welcome to the 1950s. 772 00:50:27,057 --> 00:50:29,082 Dr. Seuss was back writing ad copy... 773 00:50:29,159 --> 00:50:31,594 and creating children's books in his spare time. 774 00:50:31,661 --> 00:50:35,620 The drawing was easy for him. It was the words that kept him up at night. 775 00:50:36,566 --> 00:50:40,298 -He threw over 95% of his work away. -He was a perfectionist. 776 00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:41,929 I can relate to that. 777 00:50:42,005 --> 00:50:45,202 So 20 years later does he finally get the confidence... 778 00:50:45,275 --> 00:50:47,903 to leave the ad world and become a full-time writer? 779 00:50:47,978 --> 00:50:50,310 Acquiring confidence isn't always easy. 780 00:50:50,380 --> 00:50:55,318 But in 1957, things changed. John Hersey of Life magazine... 781 00:50:55,385 --> 00:50:58,286 challenged Dr. Seuss to write a primer for classrooms. 782 00:50:58,355 --> 00:51:01,848 Hersey felt that school kids were bored reading about... 783 00:51:01,925 --> 00:51:05,657 Dick, Jane, and Spot. 784 00:51:06,496 --> 00:51:11,263 I remember those books. "Exciting rules and personal hygiene tips for children."� 785 00:51:11,334 --> 00:51:12,460 No, not fun. 786 00:51:14,838 --> 00:51:17,933 So he took the dare and began to write a book kids could read... 787 00:51:18,008 --> 00:51:21,273 using only 225 basic words. 788 00:51:21,678 --> 00:51:23,510 And after nine months... 789 00:51:24,081 --> 00:51:26,015 "The Cat in the Hat. 790 00:51:29,886 --> 00:51:32,583 "�"The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. 791 00:51:33,690 --> 00:51:36,625 "So we sat in the house all that cold, wet day. 792 00:51:37,194 --> 00:51:40,323 "I sat there with Sally. We sat there, we two. And I said: 793 00:51:40,430 --> 00:51:43,798 "'How I wish we had something to do.' 794 00:51:44,468 --> 00:51:47,267 "And then something went bump! No. 795 00:51:48,205 --> 00:51:51,106 "How that bump made us jump. We looked. 796 00:51:51,174 --> 00:51:53,802 "And we saw him step in on the mat. We looked. 797 00:51:53,910 --> 00:51:57,778 "And we saw him. The Cat in the Hat. 798 00:51:58,281 --> 00:52:01,148 "He said to us, 'Why do you sit there like that? 799 00:52:01,218 --> 00:52:03,414 "I know it's wet, and the sun is not sunny. 800 00:52:03,487 --> 00:52:06,752 "'We're gonna have fun and lots of good fun that's funny!" 801 00:52:09,459 --> 00:52:11,518 "Then Sally and I did not know what to say. 802 00:52:11,595 --> 00:52:13,723 "Our mother was out of the house for the day. 803 00:52:13,797 --> 00:52:17,461 "But our fish said, 'No, no. Make that cat go away! 804 00:52:17,534 --> 00:52:20,731 "'He should not be here. He should not be about. 805 00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:23,569 "'He should not be here when your mother is out.' 806 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,837 "Now! Have no fear!" said the Cat. 807 00:52:26,910 --> 00:52:29,811 "My tricks are not bad, said the Cat in the Hat. 808 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,212 "'We can have lots of good fun, if you wish.'" 809 00:52:32,282 --> 00:52:34,808 Come on up here. This is a lot of good fun. 810 00:52:35,952 --> 00:52:38,922 Come around that way. Okay, wait. 811 00:52:39,689 --> 00:52:41,817 "'That's why you can have lots of good fun... 812 00:52:41,892 --> 00:52:46,728 "'with a game that I call Up With Fish! 813 00:52:48,565 --> 00:52:52,695 "'Look at me now! It's fun to have fun. You have to know how. 814 00:52:53,870 --> 00:52:55,895 "'I can hold up the cup, the milk, and cake! 815 00:52:55,972 --> 00:52:58,236 "'And all of these books, and a fish and a rake. 816 00:52:58,308 --> 00:53:01,801 "'I can hold a toy ship and a little toy man! And look, with my tail... 817 00:53:01,878 --> 00:53:05,041 "I can hold up a red fan!" Mendacity. 818 00:53:05,115 --> 00:53:07,345 "'I can fan with the fan, I can hop on the ball. 819 00:53:07,417 --> 00:53:10,944 "'And that is not all. No, that's not all!" That's what the Cat said. 820 00:53:13,590 --> 00:53:14,989 "Then he fell on his head. 821 00:53:15,058 --> 00:53:17,823 "Our fish came down, too, and he fell into a pot. He said: 822 00:53:17,894 --> 00:53:21,990 "'Do I like this? Oh, no! I do not! 823 00:53:22,065 --> 00:53:24,432 "'You should not be here when our mother is not.' 824 00:53:24,501 --> 00:53:27,027 "'Get out of this house! said the fish in the pot." 825 00:53:27,103 --> 00:53:29,834 I said that. I meant it. I know you did. 826 00:53:30,974 --> 00:53:33,170 "'I will not go away. 827 00:53:33,243 --> 00:53:37,043 "'I do not wish to go! And so... 828 00:53:37,781 --> 00:53:40,375 "I will show you another good game that I know 829 00:53:40,450 --> 00:53:43,078 "And he ran out. Then fast as a fox... 830 00:53:44,321 --> 00:53:47,222 "�the Cat in the Hat came back in with a box. 831 00:53:48,425 --> 00:53:50,689 "Then he got up on top, on the tip of his hat. 832 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:54,253 "I call this game Fun In A Box," said the Cat. 833 00:53:54,731 --> 00:53:57,462 "Then out of the box... 834 00:53:57,534 --> 00:53:59,935 "came Thing Two and Thing One!" 835 00:54:00,237 --> 00:54:03,537 -Thing Two and Thing One. -That's right. 836 00:54:03,673 --> 00:54:06,540 "These things will not bite you. They just like to have fun. 837 00:54:06,610 --> 00:54:10,012 ""Here's a game they like, said the Cat. "They like to fly kites. 838 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,878 We can fly the kites. 839 00:54:12,649 --> 00:54:14,481 Look at the kites. You wanna fly a kite? 840 00:54:14,551 --> 00:54:18,044 No, you see, you can do that. You can fly a kite in the house. 841 00:54:18,121 --> 00:54:21,523 "'No. Not in the house, said the fish in the pot. 842 00:54:21,691 --> 00:54:26,458 "'They should not fly kites in a house! They should not.' 843 00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:31,291 "Then Sally and I saw them run down the hall. 844 00:54:31,368 --> 00:54:34,497 "These two Things bumped their kites on the wall! 845 00:54:34,571 --> 00:54:37,006 "Thing Two and Thing One. They ran up. They ran down. 846 00:54:37,073 --> 00:54:39,667 "On the string of one kite we saw Mother's new gown. 847 00:54:39,743 --> 00:54:43,111 "Then our fish said, Look!" 848 00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:45,341 "And our fish shook with fear. 849 00:54:45,415 --> 00:54:47,941 'Your mother's on her way home, do you hear? 850 00:54:48,018 --> 00:54:50,146 "'As fast as you can, think of something to do! 851 00:54:50,220 --> 00:54:53,451 "'You've got to get rid of Thing One and Thing Two.' 852 00:54:54,858 --> 00:54:57,350 "And I said, 'With my net, I can get them I bet. 853 00:54:57,427 --> 00:54:59,361 "'I bet with my net, I get those Things yet!" 854 00:54:59,429 --> 00:55:02,524 Then I let down my net. It came down with a plop. 855 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,865 "I had them at last! Those two Things had to stop. 856 00:55:06,936 --> 00:55:11,100 "And I said to the Cat, 'Now you do as I say. 857 00:55:11,975 --> 00:55:14,876 "'Now you pack those Things up and you take them away.' 858 00:55:14,944 --> 00:55:17,845 "'Oh, dear, said the Cat. 'You do not like our game. 859 00:55:17,914 --> 00:55:20,212 "'Oh, dear, what a shame!" 860 00:55:20,383 --> 00:55:22,613 "Then he shut the Things in the box with a hook. 861 00:55:22,686 --> 00:55:26,020 "And the Cat went away with a sad kind of look. 862 00:55:26,790 --> 00:55:29,487 ""That is good, said the fish. 863 00:55:29,759 --> 00:55:31,625 "'He's gone away. Yes. 864 00:55:31,695 --> 00:55:34,426 "'But your mother will come. She'll find this big mess.' 865 00:55:34,497 --> 00:55:37,990 "And then, who was back in the house? Why, the Cat! 866 00:55:38,501 --> 00:55:41,129 "'Have no fear of this mess, said the Cat in the Hat. 867 00:55:41,204 --> 00:55:43,229 "'I always pick up all my playthings and so... 868 00:55:43,306 --> 00:55:45,570 "I will show you another good trick that I know" 869 00:55:45,642 --> 00:55:47,667 "We saw him pick up the things that were down. 870 00:55:47,744 --> 00:55:50,236 "The cake, rake, gown, milk, strings, books, and dish... 871 00:55:50,313 --> 00:55:53,180 "the fan, the cup, the ship, and the dish. 872 00:55:53,249 --> 00:55:56,184 "He put them away, and he said, "That's that!" 873 00:55:56,653 --> 00:55:59,418 "And then he was gone with a tip of his hat. 874 00:55:59,723 --> 00:56:02,215 "Then Mother came in, and she said to us two: 875 00:56:02,292 --> 00:56:07,025 "'Hey, did you have any fun? Tell me, what did you do?' 876 00:56:07,163 --> 00:56:09,097 "Sally and I did not know what to say. 877 00:56:09,165 --> 00:56:11,429 "Should we tell her what went on there that day? 878 00:56:11,501 --> 00:56:15,233 "Should we tell her about it? Now, should we? What should we do? 879 00:56:15,305 --> 00:56:18,639 "What would you do if your mother asked you?" 880 00:56:22,712 --> 00:56:26,205 Cat in the Hat sold over 250,000 copies in the first year. 881 00:56:26,282 --> 00:56:28,250 And if I'm not mistaken... 882 00:56:28,318 --> 00:56:32,551 it's the first time that a cat ever helped establish a publishing company. 883 00:56:33,056 --> 00:56:35,582 Tell me, did he finally become a full-time writer? 884 00:56:35,658 --> 00:56:36,955 As a matter of fact, yes. 885 00:56:37,293 --> 00:56:39,318 Just another overnight success story. 886 00:56:39,396 --> 00:56:41,865 Overnight, that is, 35 years later. 887 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:44,890 Cat, hat 888 00:56:46,503 --> 00:56:47,766 Wait a minute. 889 00:56:48,104 --> 00:56:50,505 Cat In the Hat never made it to the schoolroom. 890 00:56:50,573 --> 00:56:53,736 Of course not. It made school boards nervous. 891 00:56:53,810 --> 00:56:55,676 It made reading too much fun. 892 00:56:55,745 --> 00:56:58,077 That book, and his next big one. 893 00:57:00,283 --> 00:57:03,082 I frequently think, every now and then... 894 00:57:03,153 --> 00:57:06,248 of the glorious fruits of the noble hen. 895 00:57:07,157 --> 00:57:08,283 Eggs. 896 00:57:09,793 --> 00:57:11,158 E-G-G-S. 897 00:57:11,227 --> 00:57:14,026 My knowledge of eggs is tremendously wide. 898 00:57:14,397 --> 00:57:17,924 I've eaten them boiled. I've eaten them fried. 899 00:57:18,835 --> 00:57:21,497 Poached, and shirred, deviled, and scrambled. 900 00:57:21,571 --> 00:57:24,233 Tumbled, woombled, wimbled and wambled. 901 00:57:24,908 --> 00:57:28,708 I've eaten them beaten, swizzled and swuzzled 902 00:57:28,778 --> 00:57:30,644 I've known every way 903 00:57:30,713 --> 00:57:34,013 that an egg can be guzzled 904 00:57:34,651 --> 00:57:36,847 Thank you. Thank you very much. 905 00:57:38,054 --> 00:57:40,751 But thinking of eggs reminds me of Sam... 906 00:57:40,824 --> 00:57:44,089 whose favorite dish is green eggs and ham. 907 00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,892 lam Sam, Sam-I-Am 908 00:57:55,238 --> 00:57:56,933 Do you like green eggs and ham? 909 00:57:57,006 --> 00:58:00,374 I do not like them, Sam-1-Am I do not like green eggs and ham 910 00:58:03,379 --> 00:58:05,677 Would you like them here or there? 911 00:58:06,449 --> 00:58:08,383 I would not like them anywhere 912 00:58:13,156 --> 00:58:16,717 Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse? 913 00:58:17,060 --> 00:58:19,461 Not in a house, not with a mouse 914 00:58:19,529 --> 00:58:22,726 !/ would not eat them here or there ! would not eat them anywhere 915 00:58:22,799 --> 00:58:26,531 I would not eat green eggs and ham I do not like them, Sam-1-Am 916 00:58:27,704 --> 00:58:30,833 A train 917 00:58:30,974 --> 00:58:32,999 Could you, would you on a train? 918 00:58:34,210 --> 00:58:37,737 Not on a train, not in a tree, not in a car Sam, let me be! 919 00:58:39,148 --> 00:58:42,015 Say, in the dark? Here in the dark 920 00:58:42,418 --> 00:58:44,648 Would you, could you in the dark? 921 00:58:45,488 --> 00:58:47,650 !/ wouldn't, could not in the dark 922 00:58:52,195 --> 00:58:54,095 Would you, could you in the rain? 923 00:58:55,265 --> 00:58:58,565 !/ would not, could not in the rain Not in the dark, not on a train 924 00:59:00,303 --> 00:59:03,933 You do not like them, so you say Try them, try them and you may 925 00:59:05,208 --> 00:59:06,903 Try them and you may, I say 926 00:59:08,444 --> 00:59:11,573 If you will let me be, I will try them you will see 927 00:59:24,827 --> 00:59:27,797 Say! I like green eggs and ham/! I do! I like them, Sam-I-Am/ 928 00:59:27,864 --> 00:59:30,959 And I will eat them in the rain And in the dark, and on a train 929 00:59:31,034 --> 00:59:34,129 And I will eat them in a house And I will eat them with a mouse 930 00:59:34,203 --> 00:59:37,605 And I will eat them here and there Say, I will eat them anywhere! 931 00:59:37,674 --> 00:59:40,575 I do so like green eggs and ham Thank you 932 00:59:42,278 --> 00:59:43,973 Thank you, Sam-I-Am 933 00:59:49,953 --> 00:59:52,854 Talking an adult into trying something new. 934 00:59:55,959 --> 00:59:58,394 Green Eggs and Ham, the best there am. 935 00:59:58,761 --> 01:00:02,755 And Dr. Seuss, he told that story using just 20 words. 936 01:00:04,167 --> 01:00:06,602 Well, 50 maybe, I don't know. 937 01:00:08,404 --> 01:00:11,271 Top that, Cat in the Hat! 938 01:00:15,945 --> 01:00:18,607 -How do you feel? -I feel a little chilly. 939 01:00:19,215 --> 01:00:20,546 Chilly? 940 01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:22,483 -Now, who- -Who? 941 01:00:22,552 --> 01:00:24,247 "Who" is almost correct. 942 01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:25,754 -And where- -Where? 943 01:00:25,822 --> 01:00:27,688 Where is Who? 944 01:00:27,757 --> 01:00:30,124 -As in Who-ville. -Who-ville. 945 01:00:30,193 --> 01:00:32,218 -Right down there. -Who-ville! 946 01:00:32,295 --> 01:00:34,764 The Who-ville that the Grinch terrorizes? 947 01:00:35,565 --> 01:00:39,763 -What? -Someone to talk to at last! 948 01:00:41,804 --> 01:00:43,135 And it was awful. 949 01:00:43,206 --> 01:00:45,641 -I bet. -Oh, God. 950 01:00:45,708 --> 01:00:47,437 No. What's wrong? What? 951 01:00:47,677 --> 01:00:51,045 And little Cindy-Lou Who. 952 01:00:54,250 --> 01:00:56,742 And she just wanted to get her presents, right? 953 01:00:56,819 --> 01:00:59,186 Yes, she just wanted her presents... 954 01:00:59,255 --> 01:01:02,054 and nothing but just a couple of little presents. 955 01:01:02,125 --> 01:01:03,615 -I'm sorry. -Breathe. 956 01:01:03,693 --> 01:01:05,388 -I'm so sorry. -Okay, come on. 957 01:01:05,461 --> 01:01:07,828 Let's sit down. No, I'm sorry. 958 01:01:08,264 --> 01:01:10,756 -Now sit and tell me the story. -Thank you. 959 01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:13,801 I tell you, this is one of his best stories. 960 01:01:13,870 --> 01:01:16,271 You're gonna love this one, okay? 961 01:01:16,339 --> 01:01:18,068 And the ending is- 962 01:01:18,141 --> 01:01:22,135 -The ending, where he finally gets- -Wait a minute, who's telling this story? 963 01:01:22,211 --> 01:01:23,201 You. 964 01:01:26,716 --> 01:01:29,413 There it lies, the village of Who-ville. 965 01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,288 It was a serene Christmas Eve... 966 01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:37,558 and the snow was gently falling. 967 01:01:39,962 --> 01:01:43,899 Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot, 968 01:01:43,966 --> 01:01:47,596 But the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did not. 969 01:01:47,937 --> 01:01:52,067 The Grinch hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season. 970 01:01:52,141 --> 01:01:55,805 Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. 971 01:01:56,079 --> 01:01:58,480 I think that the most likely reason of all... 972 01:01:58,548 --> 01:02:01,984 may have been that his heart was two sizes too small. 973 01:02:02,185 --> 01:02:04,051 He knew that on Christmas morn... 974 01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:07,090 all the boys and girls would open up their toys. 975 01:02:08,324 --> 01:02:10,315 If there's one thing I hate... 976 01:02:10,393 --> 01:02:12,521 all that noise! Noise! 977 01:02:15,231 --> 01:02:18,201 Then the Whos, young and old, would sit down to a feast, 978 01:02:18,267 --> 01:02:21,168 I remember, Who pudding and rare Who-roast-beast, 979 01:02:21,237 --> 01:02:25,367 And then they'd do something that he liked least of all. 980 01:02:25,875 --> 01:02:27,866 -I remember. -They'd sing. 981 01:02:33,416 --> 01:02:36,977 Welcome, Christmas, come this way 982 01:02:41,023 --> 01:02:42,218 Welcome 983 01:02:42,725 --> 01:02:45,888 Why, for 53 years he'd put up with it now., 984 01:02:45,962 --> 01:02:48,556 But he must stop this Christmas from coming. 985 01:02:48,765 --> 01:02:52,497 -But how? Then he got an idea. -An awful idea? 986 01:02:52,735 --> 01:02:55,705 The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea. 987 01:02:56,072 --> 01:02:57,938 I know just what to do. 988 01:02:58,708 --> 01:03:01,837 What a great Grinch y trick. 989 01:03:02,512 --> 01:03:07,245 With this coat and this hat, I'll look just like Saint Nick. 990 01:03:09,719 --> 01:03:11,710 All I need is a reindeer. 991 01:03:12,255 --> 01:03:14,121 So he called his dog, Max. 992 01:03:14,190 --> 01:03:18,252 Then he took some red thread and tied a big horn on the top of his head. 993 01:03:18,361 --> 01:03:20,386 Then the Grinch said, "Giddyup."� 994 01:03:20,463 --> 01:03:22,591 And the sleigh started down toward the homes... 995 01:03:22,665 --> 01:03:25,100 where the Whos lay g-snooze in their town. 996 01:03:26,169 --> 01:03:29,104 All the windows were dark. No one knew he was there. 997 01:03:29,372 --> 01:03:32,433 They were all dreaming sweet dreams without care. 998 01:03:32,542 --> 01:03:36,172 Then he slid down the chimney, a rather tight pinch. 999 01:03:36,245 --> 01:03:39,545 But if Santa could do it then so could the Grinch. 1000 01:03:39,816 --> 01:03:42,114 Then he slunk to the icebox. 1001 01:03:42,418 --> 01:03:44,318 He took the Who feast, 1002 01:03:44,587 --> 01:03:47,887 He took the Who pudding, he took the roast-beast! 1003 01:03:48,691 --> 01:03:52,650 Then he slithered and slunk with a smile most unpleasant... 1004 01:03:52,728 --> 01:03:55,789 around the whole room, and he took every present, 1005 01:03:55,865 --> 01:03:59,358 And as the Grinch took the tree and he started to shove... 1006 01:03:59,435 --> 01:04:01,164 he heard a small sound... 1007 01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:03,806 like the coo of a dove, 1008 01:04:03,873 --> 01:04:06,672 He turned around fast, and he saw a small Who, 1009 01:04:06,742 --> 01:04:09,609 -Little Cindy-Lou Who. -Who was no more than two, 1010 01:04:10,179 --> 01:04:12,273 Santy Claus, why? 1011 01:04:12,882 --> 01:04:15,476 Why are you taking our Christmas tree? 1012 01:04:16,285 --> 01:04:18,583 There's a light on this tree... 1013 01:04:18,821 --> 01:04:21,313 that won't light on one side. 1014 01:04:21,390 --> 01:04:24,621 So I'm taking it home to my workshop, my dear. 1015 01:04:25,127 --> 01:04:28,927 I'll fix it up there, then I'll bring it back here. 1016 01:04:30,466 --> 01:04:32,366 And the fib fooled the child. 1017 01:04:32,635 --> 01:04:37,038 It was a quarter past dawn, all the Whos still abed... 1018 01:04:37,340 --> 01:04:41,277 all the Whos still a-snooze when he packed up his sled. 1019 01:04:41,878 --> 01:04:45,212 3,000 feet up to the top of Mount Crumpit... 1020 01:04:45,281 --> 01:04:48,478 he rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it. 1021 01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:55,820 They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming. 1022 01:04:55,892 --> 01:04:59,385 They're just waking up. I know just what they'll do. 1023 01:04:59,495 --> 01:05:01,930 Their mouths will hang open a minute or two. 1024 01:05:01,998 --> 01:05:06,799 Then the Whos down in Who-ville will all cry boo-hoo. 1025 01:05:07,770 --> 01:05:11,365 That's a noise that I simply must hear. 1026 01:05:11,641 --> 01:05:14,906 So he paused, and the Grinch put a hand to his ear. 1027 01:05:19,882 --> 01:05:23,375 Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small... 1028 01:05:23,452 --> 01:05:26,888 were singing without any presents at all. 1029 01:05:27,390 --> 01:05:30,325 Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. 1030 01:05:30,393 --> 01:05:33,795 Maybe Christmas, he thought, didn't come from a store. 1031 01:05:34,130 --> 01:05:37,156 Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. 1032 01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:40,528 And then what happened? 1033 01:05:41,137 --> 01:05:43,299 In Who-ville, they say... 1034 01:05:43,739 --> 01:05:46,208 that the Grinch's small heart... 1035 01:05:46,776 --> 01:05:50,178 grew three sizes that day. 1036 01:05:51,113 --> 01:05:54,572 With a smile in his soul, he descended Mount Crumpit... 1037 01:05:54,650 --> 01:05:57,984 cheerfully blowing "�who-who" on his trumpet. 1038 01:05:58,054 --> 01:05:59,852 And he brought everything back. 1039 01:05:59,922 --> 01:06:02,391 All the food for the feast, 1040 01:06:02,458 --> 01:06:04,552 And he, he himself, the Grinch... 1041 01:06:04,627 --> 01:06:06,652 carved the roast-beast. 1042 01:06:09,198 --> 01:06:10,427 So everything's fine. 1043 01:06:10,499 --> 01:06:14,060 The village has its Christmas, that Grinch learns a valuable lesson... 1044 01:06:14,136 --> 01:06:16,332 and it's not so horrible after all, right? 1045 01:06:16,405 --> 01:06:18,032 Says you... 1046 01:06:19,108 --> 01:06:21,975 who didn't have to live through it. 1047 01:06:22,044 --> 01:06:26,538 You don't have to be a Who-villian to feel a little pain in your heart, okay, miss y? 1048 01:06:26,816 --> 01:06:28,614 You want to feel some pain? 1049 01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:32,649 Feel that and that! 1050 01:06:49,972 --> 01:06:52,737 I'm gonna get my story. I'm gonna get it. 1051 01:06:52,908 --> 01:06:56,606 -Whether it's snow or sleet or- -Sorry. 1052 01:06:57,380 --> 01:06:59,314 Where you've just been was... 1053 01:07:00,816 --> 01:07:05,014 Let's just say the Grinch was Dr. Seuss' favorite character. 1054 01:07:05,087 --> 01:07:07,249 Well, maybe second favorite. 1055 01:07:09,225 --> 01:07:11,626 He loved the Christmas of years past... 1056 01:07:11,827 --> 01:07:15,525 and felt sad it was becoming more about selling than feeling. 1057 01:07:15,664 --> 01:07:18,656 The Grinch was his way of getting it off his chest. 1058 01:07:18,834 --> 01:07:22,498 How very clever of Dr. Seuss to sort of slide the moral in sideways. 1059 01:07:22,571 --> 01:07:23,663 Absolutely. 1060 01:07:24,073 --> 01:07:27,839 So the Grinch has cheered him up. He loves it. Everything's fabulous, right? 1061 01:07:27,910 --> 01:07:29,400 Professionally, yes. 1062 01:07:30,012 --> 01:07:31,980 -Personally, no. -What? 1063 01:07:32,314 --> 01:07:35,215 The late 1960s were very tough on Dr. Seuss. 1064 01:07:35,518 --> 01:07:39,284 Helen, his wife, friend, and adviser for 40 years, passed away. 1065 01:07:40,356 --> 01:07:42,518 Within a year, so did his father. 1066 01:07:42,625 --> 01:07:44,320 Dr. Seuss was despondent... 1067 01:07:44,393 --> 01:07:47,260 unable to find consolation, even in his work. 1068 01:07:47,396 --> 01:07:49,558 Until a friend, Audrey, suggested: 1069 01:07:50,933 --> 01:07:53,027 "When you're trying to overcome something... 1070 01:07:53,102 --> 01:07:56,402 "you should stand on your head and look at things that way." 1071 01:07:57,039 --> 01:07:59,474 Sounds like something Dr. Seuss would say. 1072 01:08:06,248 --> 01:08:07,477 Exactly. 1073 01:08:08,217 --> 01:08:10,515 They fell in love and got married. 1074 01:08:10,619 --> 01:08:15,181 And Audrey noted early on, "In Ted Geisel there's a wild little kid." 1075 01:08:16,525 --> 01:08:17,856 Thank you. 1076 01:08:18,928 --> 01:08:21,954 He'd been struggling for nine months on a book about ecology. 1077 01:08:22,031 --> 01:08:24,500 Audrey suggested they take a vacation to Africa. 1078 01:08:24,567 --> 01:08:26,535 -Very nice. -The trip was a... 1079 01:08:27,103 --> 01:08:29,094 -A what? -Hairball. 1080 01:08:29,205 --> 01:08:31,196 Your hair? Hairball, hair! 1081 01:08:31,674 --> 01:08:33,870 -Are you all right? -Catalyst. 1082 01:08:33,976 --> 01:08:36,570 The trip was a catalyst for him. 1083 01:08:36,979 --> 01:08:41,143 In Kenya, he was inspired by some odd-looking trees... 1084 01:08:41,217 --> 01:08:43,584 which reminded him of his own drawings. 1085 01:08:43,652 --> 01:08:45,450 And the 15 cents is for? 1086 01:08:45,521 --> 01:08:48,422 The next thing he knew, the trees were being felled. 1087 01:08:48,491 --> 01:08:51,358 "Audrey, they're cutting my trees!" 1088 01:08:51,660 --> 01:08:53,560 So he grabbed a hotel laundry slip... 1089 01:08:53,629 --> 01:08:56,098 and scribbled a rough draft of his favorite book: 1090 01:08:56,165 --> 01:08:58,691 -The Lorax. -That's fascinating. 1091 01:08:58,934 --> 01:09:00,595 And this is for? 1092 01:09:05,508 --> 01:09:06,907 In the bucket. 1093 01:09:20,589 --> 01:09:22,318 Uno, dos... 1094 01:09:23,459 --> 01:09:24,984 ties. Bye-bye. 1095 01:09:42,511 --> 01:09:44,673 Hello? Yeah, can you... 1096 01:09:46,081 --> 01:09:49,278 Can you tell me what happened to Dr. Seuss' trees? 1097 01:09:49,418 --> 01:09:51,250 It all started way back. 1098 01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:54,415 Way back in the days when the grass was still green... 1099 01:09:54,490 --> 01:09:58,154 and the pond was still wet, and the clouds were still clean... 1100 01:09:58,227 --> 01:10:01,492 and the song of the Swomee-Swans rang out in space. 1101 01:10:01,564 --> 01:10:04,397 One morning, I came to this glorious place. 1102 01:10:04,500 --> 01:10:07,697 Then I saw the trees, The Truffula trees! 1103 01:10:07,770 --> 01:10:10,364 The bright-colored tufts of the Truffula trees. 1104 01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,238 And under the trees, ! saw Brown Bar-ba-loots... 1105 01:10:13,309 --> 01:10:15,937 frisking about in their Bar-ba-loot suits. 1106 01:10:16,011 --> 01:10:18,912 I felt a great leaping of love in my heart. 1107 01:10:18,981 --> 01:10:22,576 I knew just what I'd do. ! unloaded my cart. 1108 01:10:22,651 --> 01:10:25,348 In no time at all, I had built a small shop. 1109 01:10:25,888 --> 01:10:29,756 Then I chopped down a Truffula tree with one chop. 1110 01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:39,031 Mister, I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. 1111 01:10:39,468 --> 01:10:42,631 I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. 1112 01:10:42,705 --> 01:10:45,731 And I'm asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs that... 1113 01:10:45,808 --> 01:10:49,767 that thing, that horrible thing that I see... 1114 01:10:49,945 --> 01:10:53,347 What's that thing you've made out of my Truffula tree? 1115 01:10:53,449 --> 01:10:57,249 This thing is most useful. This thing is a Thneed. 1116 01:10:57,353 --> 01:11:01,221 A Thneed, a fine something that all people need. 1117 01:11:01,457 --> 01:11:05,416 It's a shirt. It's a sock. It's a glove. It's a hat. 1118 01:11:05,494 --> 01:11:08,555 Yeah, but it has other uses. Yes, far beyond that. 1119 01:11:08,631 --> 01:11:12,067 Sir, you're crazy. You're crazy with greed. 1120 01:11:12,134 --> 01:11:15,866 Why, there's no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed. 1121 01:11:19,541 --> 01:11:22,340 And in no time at all, in the factory I built... 1122 01:11:22,411 --> 01:11:25,642 the whole Onceler family was working full tilt, 1123 01:11:25,714 --> 01:11:29,048 We were all knitting Thneeds, just as busy as bees... 1124 01:11:29,118 --> 01:11:31,815 to the sound of the chopping of Truffula trees, 1125 01:11:31,954 --> 01:11:35,652 I speak for the trees, and I'll yell and I'll shout... 1126 01:11:35,824 --> 01:11:39,021 for the fine things on Earth that are on their way out. 1127 01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:46,661 It's nature boy. 1128 01:11:46,735 --> 01:11:49,136 -The garden-club member. -Yes. 1129 01:11:49,204 --> 01:11:51,798 I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees... 1130 01:11:51,874 --> 01:11:54,900 which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please. 1131 01:11:54,977 --> 01:11:57,639 But I'm also in charge of the brown Bar-ba-loots... 1132 01:11:57,713 --> 01:12:00,307 who played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suits... 1133 01:12:00,382 --> 01:12:03,215 and happily lived eating Truffula fruits. 1134 01:12:03,452 --> 01:12:06,581 Now, thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground... 1135 01:12:06,655 --> 01:12:09,283 there's not enough Truffula fruit to go round. 1136 01:12:09,358 --> 01:12:12,453 I see your point. Yes, I do see your point. 1137 01:12:13,395 --> 01:12:16,228 They loved living here, but I can't let them stay. 1138 01:12:16,332 --> 01:12:19,495 They'll have to find food, and I hope that they may. 1139 01:12:19,835 --> 01:12:21,803 Please think about it, won't you? 1140 01:12:21,870 --> 01:12:25,272 Things were going just fine all the way down the line... 1141 01:12:25,374 --> 01:12:28,002 when he snuck out of a pipe. 1142 01:12:28,177 --> 01:12:31,545 He was back with another gripe. 1143 01:12:32,481 --> 01:12:36,213 Onceler, you're making such smogulous smoke... 1144 01:12:36,585 --> 01:12:40,522 my poor Swomee-Swans, why, they can't sing a note. 1145 01:12:42,324 --> 01:12:43,485 And so... 1146 01:12:45,394 --> 01:12:48,762 they cannot live here. I'm sending them off. 1147 01:12:49,431 --> 01:12:52,662 -Where will they go? -I don't hopefully know. 1148 01:12:54,169 --> 01:12:57,332 And at that very moment, we heard a loud whack. 1149 01:12:57,773 --> 01:13:00,572 From outside in the fields came the sickening smack... 1150 01:13:00,642 --> 01:13:04,704 of an axe on a tree, Then we saw the tree fall. 1151 01:13:04,947 --> 01:13:08,474 The very last Truffula tree of them all. 1152 01:13:08,717 --> 01:13:11,049 I'll never forget the grim look on his face... 1153 01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,215 when he heisted himself and took leave of this place... 1154 01:13:14,289 --> 01:13:17,589 through a hole in the smog, without leaving a trace. 1155 01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:20,889 And all that the Lorax left here in this mess... 1156 01:13:20,963 --> 01:13:24,263 was a small pile of rocks, with one word., 1157 01:13:29,037 --> 01:13:31,904 -"Unless"? -Yes, "unless." 1158 01:13:33,275 --> 01:13:34,333 Unless what? 1159 01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:37,402 Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot... 1160 01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:40,141 nothing's going to get better. It's not. 1161 01:13:40,382 --> 01:13:41,474 Catch! 1162 01:13:42,351 --> 01:13:44,285 It's a Truffula seed. 1163 01:13:44,787 --> 01:13:48,155 You're in charge of the last of the Truffula seeds. 1164 01:13:48,257 --> 01:13:50,954 And Truffula trees are what everyone needs. 1165 01:13:51,660 --> 01:13:54,459 Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. 1166 01:13:54,530 --> 01:13:57,363 Give it clean water and feed it fresh air. 1167 01:13:57,699 --> 01:14:01,135 Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. 1168 01:14:01,537 --> 01:14:05,235 Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back. 1169 01:14:07,743 --> 01:14:09,939 Okay. Take time. 1170 01:14:11,113 --> 01:14:12,410 Get involved. 1171 01:14:13,148 --> 01:14:15,116 Everybody makes a difference. 1172 01:14:18,654 --> 01:14:20,486 What's going on over there? 1173 01:14:20,722 --> 01:14:24,056 Possibly another Butter Battle, Come on up and see! 1174 01:14:30,466 --> 01:14:34,630 It's the Zooks and the Yooks. Butter side up, butter side down. 1175 01:14:34,837 --> 01:14:37,033 Looks like things are heating up again. 1176 01:14:37,105 --> 01:14:40,769 -Is that Zooks and Yooks with two "O"s? -Yes, as in "look." 1177 01:14:40,943 --> 01:14:44,345 As you know, on this side of the wall, we are Yooks. 1178 01:14:44,546 --> 01:14:47,982 On the far other side of this wall live the Zooks. 1179 01:14:48,050 --> 01:14:51,179 In every Zook house and in every Zook town... 1180 01:14:51,253 --> 01:14:52,948 every Zook eats his bread... 1181 01:14:53,021 --> 01:14:54,682 with the butter side down. 1182 01:14:54,957 --> 01:14:58,359 But we Yooks, when we eat, when we breakfast or sup... 1183 01:14:58,427 --> 01:15:02,227 we spread our bread right, with the butter side up. 1184 01:15:02,598 --> 01:15:06,296 Every Zook must be watched. He has kinks in his soul. 1185 01:15:06,768 --> 01:15:09,760 That's why as a young man, I made watching my goal. 1186 01:15:09,838 --> 01:15:12,705 Watching Zooks for the Zook-Watching Border Patrol. 1187 01:15:19,581 --> 01:15:23,245 One day, a very rude Zook by the name of Van Itch... 1188 01:15:23,318 --> 01:15:26,481 snuck up and slingshotted my Snickberry Switch. 1189 01:15:26,788 --> 01:15:28,552 -This is getting serious. -I know. 1190 01:15:28,624 --> 01:15:31,389 A disagreement over spreading butter the right way. 1191 01:15:31,460 --> 01:15:36,159 I'm sure Dr. Seuss had more on his mind than two groups muttering over buttering. 1192 01:15:36,231 --> 01:15:38,199 -I made a rhyme! -About time. 1193 01:15:38,267 --> 01:15:39,462 Hit me. 1194 01:15:40,068 --> 01:15:42,162 But now this is the calm before the storm. 1195 01:15:42,237 --> 01:15:45,696 -He's about to make a big point, I'm sure. -You got that right. 1196 01:15:45,841 --> 01:15:46,967 My dear boy... 1197 01:15:47,042 --> 01:15:50,012 You're not to blame. You simply have suffered a minor defeat... 1198 01:15:50,078 --> 01:15:53,173 'cause your Snickberry Switch is a bit obsolete. 1199 01:15:53,448 --> 01:15:55,007 Their slingshot's more modern. 1200 01:15:55,083 --> 01:15:56,983 What we need to get is a weapon... 1201 01:15:57,052 --> 01:15:58,816 that's even more moderner yet. 1202 01:15:58,887 --> 01:16:01,686 So I've ordered the boys in the back room to figure... 1203 01:16:01,757 --> 01:16:05,022 how to build you some such duper sling-a-ma-jigger. 1204 01:16:05,994 --> 01:16:09,157 I marched to the wall with great vim and great vigor. 1205 01:16:09,231 --> 01:16:12,201 With my Triple-Sling-Jigger I sure felt much bigger. 1206 01:16:12,267 --> 01:16:13,826 My Jigger-Rock-Snatchem... 1207 01:16:13,902 --> 01:16:17,395 will fling them right back just as fast as we catch 'em. 1208 01:16:19,107 --> 01:16:22,077 They thought up a great one. They certainly did. 1209 01:16:22,144 --> 01:16:25,307 They thought up a gun called the Kick-g-Poo Kid... 1210 01:16:25,380 --> 01:16:27,747 which they loaded with powerful Poo-a-Doo powder... 1211 01:16:27,816 --> 01:16:31,275 and ants' eggs, and bees' legs, and dried-fried clam chowder. 1212 01:16:31,353 --> 01:16:35,256 Shoot if you must, with your wee tiny shooter... 1213 01:16:35,324 --> 01:16:38,089 the boys in my back room have rendered it neuter... 1214 01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:41,255 with this eight-nozzled elephant-toted Boom Blitz. 1215 01:16:41,330 --> 01:16:45,198 It shoots high explosive sour cherry-stone pits. 1216 01:16:45,267 --> 01:16:49,226 And will put your dumb Kick-a-Poo Kid on the fritz. 1217 01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:53,306 Those boys in the back room sure knew how to putter, 1218 01:16:53,375 --> 01:16:56,276 They made me a thing called the Utterly Sputter, 1219 01:16:56,345 --> 01:16:59,246 But Van Itch had a Sputter exactly like mine. 1220 01:16:59,314 --> 01:17:00,577 And he yelled. 1221 01:17:00,649 --> 01:17:03,619 My Blue Gooer is working just fine. 1222 01:17:08,724 --> 01:17:11,853 My boys made me a gadget that's newer than new. 1223 01:17:14,997 --> 01:17:17,523 It's filled with mysterious Moo-Lacka-Moo... 1224 01:17:17,599 --> 01:17:20,432 and can blow all those Zooks to Sala-ma-goo. 1225 01:17:23,271 --> 01:17:26,866 They invented the Bits y Big-Boy Boomeroo. 1226 01:17:36,318 --> 01:17:39,253 Van Itch, here's the end of your terrible town... 1227 01:17:39,321 --> 01:17:42,347 full of Zooks who eat bread with the butter side down. 1228 01:17:42,424 --> 01:17:45,985 And I, my dear chap, have a message for you. 1229 01:17:46,094 --> 01:17:47,528 Mainly, I also have... 1230 01:17:47,596 --> 01:17:50,031 a Big-Boy Boomeroo. 1231 01:17:51,633 --> 01:17:54,568 I will blow you into pork and wee beans. 1232 01:17:54,703 --> 01:17:57,172 I'll butter-side-up you to small smithereens. 1233 01:17:57,239 --> 01:18:00,265 Grandpa, be careful. Oh, gee! 1234 01:18:01,276 --> 01:18:05,008 Who's gonna drop it? Will you or will he? 1235 01:18:05,447 --> 01:18:07,779 Be patient. We'll see. 1236 01:18:15,157 --> 01:18:18,127 Dr. Seuss took a tremendous amount of criticism for this book. 1237 01:18:18,193 --> 01:18:19,183 Why? 1238 01:18:19,261 --> 01:18:21,491 Seuss was accused of frightening children. 1239 01:18:21,563 --> 01:18:22,689 Right. 1240 01:18:22,764 --> 01:18:27,099 Like robot-terminating aliens don't frighten children and Dr. Seuss does. 1241 01:18:27,536 --> 01:18:30,471 Children should be aware of what's happening around them. 1242 01:18:30,539 --> 01:18:32,064 Everybody should. 1243 01:18:32,974 --> 01:18:37,411 Tell me something. Which side did Dr. Seuss butter his bread on? 1244 01:18:38,747 --> 01:18:40,010 The edge. 1245 01:18:47,689 --> 01:18:50,852 So how's your notebook? Filling up? 1246 01:18:50,926 --> 01:18:53,122 My notebook and my head. I hope I don't forget. 1247 01:18:53,195 --> 01:18:56,324 I have a hunch you'll remember more than you think. 1248 01:18:56,531 --> 01:18:59,091 -Say bye to Norval. -Okay. Bye... 1249 01:18:59,935 --> 01:19:04,168 In his 70s and 80s, he spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals... 1250 01:19:04,239 --> 01:19:07,140 battling cancer, a heart attack, an eye disease. 1251 01:19:07,209 --> 01:19:09,769 But he kept on working eight hours a day... 1252 01:19:09,978 --> 01:19:12,106 seven days a week. 1253 01:19:12,180 --> 01:19:15,980 He's creative and working in his 80s? Gives me something to live for. 1254 01:19:16,284 --> 01:19:20,721 He was once offered a huge sum for the use of his characters in a commercial. 1255 01:19:21,590 --> 01:19:24,116 It would have put him in the Guinness Book of Records... 1256 01:19:24,192 --> 01:19:26,251 as the highest paid writer per word ever. 1257 01:19:26,328 --> 01:19:27,420 You're kidding. And? 1258 01:19:27,496 --> 01:19:30,932 He replied, "I would rather be in the Guinness Book of Records... 1259 01:19:30,999 --> 01:19:34,299 "�as the writer who refused the highest amount of money per word." 1260 01:19:34,369 --> 01:19:35,962 How cool. What else? 1261 01:19:36,772 --> 01:19:39,400 His characters were like family to him. 1262 01:19:39,641 --> 01:19:42,941 -He also liked to sing in karaoke bars. -What? 1263 01:19:43,612 --> 01:19:45,876 Just kidding. Seeing whether you're listening. 1264 01:19:45,947 --> 01:19:46,937 I am. 1265 01:19:47,015 --> 01:19:50,212 His life was his work, and his work was never done. 1266 01:19:50,385 --> 01:19:53,514 It was only at this point in his life he could write the book... 1267 01:19:53,588 --> 01:19:56,216 Oh, the Places You'll Gol... 1268 01:19:56,324 --> 01:19:59,191 in which he took a look at the ups and downs... 1269 01:19:59,261 --> 01:20:01,628 of the entire human experience. 1270 01:20:01,696 --> 01:20:03,926 No, not gonna do it. 1271 01:20:03,999 --> 01:20:06,263 Not gonna go in the revolving door. 1272 01:20:06,334 --> 01:20:09,895 I told you it was mine originally. Come on, trust me. 1273 01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:13,332 Wait. 1274 01:20:14,342 --> 01:20:16,538 I've been cat-napped. Call 911. 1275 01:20:17,245 --> 01:20:18,610 Here we go. 1276 01:20:24,786 --> 01:20:26,345 Oh, my! 1277 01:20:26,922 --> 01:20:29,323 Works every time. You've changed. 1278 01:20:32,894 --> 01:20:34,384 I guess I have. 1279 01:20:37,599 --> 01:20:39,897 And so have you. 1280 01:20:44,673 --> 01:20:47,301 Everyone is just waiting 1281 01:20:53,148 --> 01:20:56,277 Waiting for a train to go 1282 01:20:56,351 --> 01:20:59,878 The phone to ring, the snow to snow 1283 01:20:59,955 --> 01:21:03,289 Waiting around for a yes or a no 1284 01:21:03,458 --> 01:21:06,257 Or just waiting for their hair to grow 1285 01:21:07,896 --> 01:21:10,558 Everyone is just waiting 1286 01:21:15,804 --> 01:21:18,705 Waiting for the fish to bite 1287 01:21:18,773 --> 01:21:21,868 Or waiting around for a Friday night 1288 01:21:22,110 --> 01:21:25,569 A string of pearls, a pair of pants 1289 01:21:25,747 --> 01:21:27,806 A wig with curls 1290 01:21:27,883 --> 01:21:32,047 Or another chance 1291 01:21:33,188 --> 01:21:34,553 But that's not for you. 1292 01:21:34,623 --> 01:21:37,422 By George, I think you're right! 1293 01:21:37,492 --> 01:21:39,256 -Pas de deux? -I'd love to. 1294 01:21:39,995 --> 01:21:43,295 Oh, the places you'll go 1295 01:21:43,365 --> 01:21:45,231 There is fun to be done 1296 01:21:45,300 --> 01:21:47,462 And there are games to be won/ 1297 01:21:47,535 --> 01:21:48,525 ! said 1298 01:21:50,438 --> 01:21:52,566 Oh, the places you'll go 1299 01:21:56,044 --> 01:21:59,173 Oh, the places I'll go 1300 01:21:59,381 --> 01:22:01,475 I'll be seeing great sights 1301 01:22:01,549 --> 01:22:03,244 I'll soar to high heights 1302 01:22:03,318 --> 01:22:04,581 ! said 1303 01:22:06,721 --> 01:22:09,053 Oh, the places I'll go 1304 01:22:11,793 --> 01:22:15,127 I'm sorry to say, but sadly it's true 1305 01:22:15,196 --> 01:22:16,186 What? 1306 01:22:16,264 --> 01:22:19,029 That bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you 1307 01:22:19,467 --> 01:22:23,404 You'll come down from a lurch with an unpleasant bump 1308 01:22:24,172 --> 01:22:27,574 And the chances are then you're gonna be in a slump 1309 01:22:27,876 --> 01:22:31,870 And when I'm in a slump I'm not in for much fun 1310 01:22:32,013 --> 01:22:34,414 Unslumping myself is very difficult 1311 01:22:34,482 --> 01:22:35,972 Well, it's not easily done 1312 01:22:36,051 --> 01:22:39,282 Oh, the places I'll go 1313 01:22:39,554 --> 01:22:43,252 You'll be best of the best You'll top all the rest 1314 01:22:43,325 --> 01:22:44,451 ! said 1315 01:22:46,561 --> 01:22:49,053 Oh, the places I'll go 1316 01:22:52,033 --> 01:22:55,992 On you will go though the weather be foul 1317 01:22:56,071 --> 01:22:59,974 On I will go though my enemies prow! 1318 01:23:00,041 --> 01:23:03,341 Onward up many a frightening creek 1319 01:23:03,445 --> 01:23:05,607 Though my arms may get sore 1320 01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:07,609 And your sneakers may leak 1321 01:23:08,083 --> 01:23:10,142 But will I succeed? 1322 01:23:10,385 --> 01:23:12,615 Yes, you will indeed 1323 01:23:12,721 --> 01:23:16,123 98.75% guaranteed 1324 01:23:24,933 --> 01:23:28,699 Grand jete, and I don't mean a 747 1325 01:23:28,903 --> 01:23:30,769 Kick, ball, change 1326 01:23:30,839 --> 01:23:33,934 God, I'm a dancer. A dancer dances on/ 1327 01:23:44,652 --> 01:23:46,416 You're off to great places 1328 01:23:46,688 --> 01:23:48,417 Today is your day 1329 01:23:48,590 --> 01:23:50,456 My mountain is waiting 1330 01:23:50,525 --> 01:23:52,721 So get on your way 1331 01:23:55,597 --> 01:23:57,998 Oh, the places we'll go 1332 01:24:11,813 --> 01:24:12,871 Oh, my. 1333 01:24:14,983 --> 01:24:16,451 Before you run off... 1334 01:24:16,518 --> 01:24:19,886 Run off? I'm having too good a time. Do I have to go? 1335 01:24:20,155 --> 01:24:24,023 Not till you scamper over here to see something very special. 1336 01:24:25,894 --> 01:24:28,522 It's the fossilized footprint of a dinosaur. 1337 01:24:28,596 --> 01:24:31,896 -My goodness. -Approximately 150 million years old. 1338 01:24:32,534 --> 01:24:34,969 His father gave it to him when he was in his 20s. 1339 01:24:35,036 --> 01:24:36,265 What a great present. 1340 01:24:36,337 --> 01:24:39,307 It was to remind him that though we might become extinct... 1341 01:24:39,374 --> 01:24:42,833 we all have the opportunity to leave our footprint in the sand. 1342 01:24:43,011 --> 01:24:45,537 I think he left more than a footprint. 1343 01:24:47,449 --> 01:24:51,477 Before he was to put his typewriter away for good, he'd written 50 books... 1344 01:24:51,553 --> 01:24:56,115 and sold over 100 million copies, translated into 20 languages and Braille. 1345 01:24:56,191 --> 01:24:57,750 What did he care most about? 1346 01:24:59,060 --> 01:25:00,323 Turning. 1347 01:25:02,897 --> 01:25:05,730 Illiteracy. Lack of wit-eracy. 1348 01:25:06,201 --> 01:25:10,195 That's what made him mad, angry, furious, curious. 1349 01:25:10,738 --> 01:25:13,207 He predicted cultural disintegration... 1350 01:25:13,274 --> 01:25:15,743 life as a third-rate nation. 1351 01:25:15,810 --> 01:25:18,040 Only the parents could save the day, he'd say. 1352 01:25:18,113 --> 01:25:20,639 Fill the house with stacks of books. 1353 01:25:20,715 --> 01:25:25,016 Pile them on the sofa, the TV, in every cranny and all the nooks. 1354 01:25:26,988 --> 01:25:30,515 He knew the average kid would take a book, find something interesting... 1355 01:25:30,592 --> 01:25:32,924 and pretty soon he'd be reading. 1356 01:25:38,733 --> 01:25:41,134 He wrote this in his later years. 1357 01:25:41,769 --> 01:25:44,136 "How did it get so late so soon? 1358 01:25:44,606 --> 01:25:46,734 "It's night before it's afternoon. 1359 01:25:46,808 --> 01:25:49,243 "December's here before it's June. 1360 01:25:49,377 --> 01:25:51,778 "My goodness, how the time has floon! 1361 01:25:52,247 --> 01:25:54,648 "How did it get so late so soon?" 1362 01:25:57,352 --> 01:26:00,117 Listen, I want to apologize for how I came in earlier. 1363 01:26:00,188 --> 01:26:01,917 I was acting just very... 1364 01:26:02,090 --> 01:26:04,286 -Beastly. -Crabby. 1365 01:26:04,359 --> 01:26:06,088 -Angry. -Tired. 1366 01:26:06,327 --> 01:26:08,022 -P.0.'d. -I was stressed out. 1367 01:26:08,096 --> 01:26:10,497 You're a journalist. What do you expect? 1368 01:26:10,732 --> 01:26:14,896 Wait a minute. How could it still be 4:30? Did you just say that this... 1369 01:26:18,473 --> 01:26:19,702 Hello? 1370 01:26:21,276 --> 01:26:22,971 Where'd you go now? 1371 01:26:44,532 --> 01:26:46,296 Bye-bye, my friend. 1372 01:26:46,935 --> 01:26:48,664 And thank you, Dr. Seuss. 1373 01:26:48,903 --> 01:26:51,065 I had a great time. I got a great story. 1374 01:26:51,139 --> 01:26:53,039 It has been quite wild. 1375 01:26:57,212 --> 01:27:00,705 ! hope for the children a world of peace... 1376 01:27:00,882 --> 01:27:02,748 and that they never lose... 1377 01:27:02,817 --> 01:27:05,809 their sense of wonder and discovery. 1378 01:27:06,955 --> 01:27:10,050 From there to here, from here to there... 1379 01:27:10,158 --> 01:27:12,422 funny things are everywhere. 1380 01:28:18,860 --> 01:28:21,795 Come along with me in search of Dr. Seuss 1381 01:28:21,863 --> 01:28:23,422 -Free your mind -Don't lag behind 1382 01:28:23,498 --> 01:28:24,966 And fun is what you choose! 1383 01:28:25,033 --> 01:28:27,900 Come along with me in search of Dr. Seuss 1384 01:28:27,969 --> 01:28:30,939 -Maybe we can find him if we ask the Cat -Ask the Cat 1385 01:28:31,005 --> 01:28:32,473 In the Hat 1386 01:28:32,540 --> 01:28:34,235 -We'll search high -We'll search low 1387 01:28:34,309 --> 01:28:36,277 Oh, the places we will go!

In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994)

In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994)

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