October 2019 – Page 2

Skeleton Outline

Welcome (Home Page)
- Timeline on the homepage
- Brief what it is why we picked it
- Small index of where you can find things
Antecedents
- What were the inventions that lead up to the Yo-Yo that we are talking about
  - 500 B.C. – Early Disk (Yo-Yo)
  - 16th Century – Yo-Yo Weapon
    - Philippines – where our “inventor” immigrated from
Creation
- Creation of the modern-day Yo-yo and how it came to be
  - 1928 – Pedro Flores came to the U.S.
  - 1928 – Donald Duncan took over the company
  - 1932 – Duncan got the trademark name for Yo-Yo
  - 1946 – Move to Luck, WI
    - Named the Yo-Yo Capital of the World (Woo!!)
  - 1960 – Plastic Yo-Yos started to be manufacturing
  - 1962 – 45 Million Yo-Yos were sold
  - 1965 – Federal Court of Appeals took away the Trademark Yo-Yo
    - Not just name for it, it was the toy itself
Popularization
- How it “blew up” in a sense
  - 45 Million Yo-Yos being sold and still could not keep up with demand even though there were only 40 Million kids in the U.S.
Documentary
- Where we are going to put our documentary/videos/images
- Kind of a media base for all of the stuff that we find media based
Final Bibliography
- This is going to be where we are posting our final bibliography for the project itself
Preliminary Work
- Bibliography and Proposal are going to be under this tab
- List of Media that we are coming up with will go here
  - Images/Videos

Documentary Outline

Story Board for Documentary

Introduction
- Introduce ourselves
- Introduce the Topic
- Rough Agenda for what we’re going to be talking about
- Why we picked this topic
Antecedents (Michael)
- 500 B.C. – Ancient Greece
  - Pictures
  - Name
  - Early Designs (what it was made of, used for, etc.)
- 16th Century – Philippines
  - Pictures
  - “Yo-Yo Weapon”
  - Early Use – Design (Made of, used for, etc.)
Creation (Hunter)
- Pedro Flores – What his thoughts were, what he wanted to do with it
- Donald Duncan – What were his intentions, what he did, and the changes he made
  - Trademark for the name Yo-Yo
  - Plastic Yo-Yos
  - Move to Luck, WI
    - Named Yo-Yo Capital
  - 45 Million Yo-Yos were sold
- Federal Court of Appeals – Trademark name for it was taken away
Popularization (Erin)
- How it “blew up”
  - 45 Million Yo-Yos sold while only 40 Million kids were in the country at the time
- What toys were there before the Yo-Yo
  - What did kids play with before the Yo-Yo
  - What year did it become popular
- How it changed the Toy Industry
  - When did it get popular and what effects did it have on the toy industry
Conclusion
- Summary of what we talked about
- Thank you for listening
- “Party Favors” – We all have Yo-Yos