How The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Comes To Life | NBC Nightly News — Transcript

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1. 0:00since 1924 the Macy's parade has ushered
2. 0:04in the holidays with those magnificent
3. 0:06balloons John Piper calls himself
4. 0:09chief bow lunatic we start with sketches
5. 0:12and renderings and computer drawings but
6. 0:15ultimately we go to a 3d clay model his
7. 0:17staff at this top-secret Factory has
8. 0:20spent a year creating the meanest
9. 0:23greenest balloon this side of Whoville
10. 0:25except it's going to be huge huge
11. 0:29humongous he's a mean one here is to
12. 0:34become the Grinch each panel is
13. 0:36precisely cut and glued so it will hold
14. 0:39the helium glorious innings been doing
15. 0:41it for 30 years is a work of art and the
16. 0:44heart yes then all the bright green
17. 0:50paint you can muster is brushed on with
18. 0:53care slowly but surely mr. Grinch is
19. 0:57ready for his test flight with trusty
20. 1:00dog Max perched on his back and as the
21. 1:04big day approaches John Piper marshals
22. 1:06the tricks ropes at the ready handlers
23. 1:09hang on one for dear life am I gonna
24. 1:13blow away he may be green and he may be
25. 1:20mean but this Grinch isn't gonna steal
26. 1:23anything except children's hearts Kevin
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