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WMAQ Channel 5 - Movie 5 (Ending, 1989)

Views: 2416

Here's the ending for the Movie 5 presentation on WMAQ Channel 5. (which I believe was the same sequence as the opening) You can see colored footage of old movies and stars such as Charlie Chaplin.

Wasn't this used as the opening for other movie shows in other cities? How old is it? (i.e., when did they first start using it?) Anyone know?

This aired on local Chicago TV early Saturday, January 14th 1989.

WMAQ Channel 5 - Saturday Night Movie - "Robbery" (Opening & Pre-Movie Break, 1977)

Views: 2073

Here's the opening and pre-movie break of the Saturday Night Movie presentation of "Robbery" on WMAQ Channel 5. Includes:

WMAQ-TV Chicago animated Station ID (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Saturday Night Movie opening (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Commercial: Tropicana Living Things at 3879 South Archer Avenue

Commercial: Schaumburg Datsun at 910 West Golf Road (voiceover by Ed Grennan)

Commercial: Folgers Coffee...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Movie 5 - "The Ape Man" (Opening & PSA's, 1988)

Views: 3218

Here is the opening of a late movie feature of "The Ape Man" on WMAQ Channel 5. It starts out with some kind of time-filler - a Channel 5 logo over some rock music which goes on for over a minute, and then the opening to the "Movie 5" begins - I've seen this opening before used in New York so I think it was a national thing.

Then, strangely, between the Movie 5 opening and the start of the film, they show the following PSA's:

U.S. Postal Service featuring Ann Ro...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NBC Saturday Night At The Movies - "KISS Meets The Phantom" (Opening, 1978)

Views: 6483

Here's the (mostly complete) opening for the NBC Saturday Night at the Movies presentation of "KISS Meets the Phantom" (A.K.A., "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park) on WMAQ Channel 5. They even did a WMAQ on-screen station ID during it. (the recording missed about the first half of the NBC opening though)

If only the rest of the movie was as moderately entertaining as the opening credits.

Voiceover by Fred Collins.

This aired on local Chicago TV ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NBC Thursday Night At The Movies - "Almost Summer" (Opening, 1981)

Views: 3257

Here's the opening for the NBC Thursday Night at the Movies presentation of "Almost Summer" on WMAQ Channel 5. Includes a WMAQ station ID and PSA voiceover at the beginning. (by Ed Grennan)

Movie intro voiceover by Les Marshak.

This aired on local Chicago TV Thursday, May 28th 1981 at 8pm.

WMAQ Channel 5 - NBC Saturday Night At The Movies - "Man From Atlantis II: The Death Scouts" (Opening, 1977)

Views: 1661

Here's the opening for the NBC Saturday Night At The Movies - "Man From Atlantis II: The Death Scouts" starring Patrick Duffy. Includes:

WMAQ Newscenter5 bumper promo with Don Craig

NBC Saturday Night at the Movies opening (voiceover by Peggy Taylor)

Synopsis of the first Man from Atlantis movie

Opening of "Man From Atlantis II: The Death Scouts"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, May 7th 1977.

WFLD Channel 32 - Sunday Morning Movie (Closing, 1983)

Views: 2073

Here's the closing of the Sunday Morning Movie on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Sponsor notices from First Metropolitan Builders, Empire Carpets, and Howard Pontiac-Isuzu.

Closing of Sunday Morning Movie with preview of Family Movie and Premiere Movie.

"This is Field Communications, in Chicago." ID.

Voiceover by Jim Barton. (except Field ID - that's Darwin Gillette)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 13th ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - WMAQ-TV Editorial - "Sabotaging the RTA" (1973)

Views: 763

Here's an editorial by Dillon Smith, Editorial Director of WMAQ Channel 5, lacing into the Illinois State Legislature's continued failure to come up with legislation to create a Regional Transit Authority for the Chicago area (or as Mr. Smith termed it, "acting with unprecedented irresponsibility").

In the course of the editorial, he names names including House Speaker Robert Blair and Illinois Governor Dan Walker, denounces the political partisanship ("a three-ring clown act...

WMAQ Channel 5 - Quark (Opening, 1978)

Views: 1844

Here is a partial WMAQ Station ID and time, followed by the opening of "Quark".

Includes brief sponsor billboard (voiceover by Arthur Gary - cut off in the middle)

This aired on local Chicago TV Friday, March 3rd 1978 at 7pm!