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Here's a pre-show commercial break and partial open of the Today show on WMAQ Channel 5. Includes:

Commercial: The Auditorium Theatre Council (50 East Congress) presents the Dance Theatre of Harlem in six gala performances on November 4th through November 8th at 8pm and November 9th at 2pm, followed by programs at the auditorium for that week (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Commercial: Pine Mountain Log - "No Kindling, No Splinters"

WMAQ Channel 5 Station ID - with "curvy 5" logo (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Opening titles of the Today show, with Tom Brokaw at the Black Hills of the western part of South Dakota as part of the celebration of the 40th state's bicentennial.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, October 24th 1975.