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WCFC Channel 38 - Liberty Temple Full Gospel News - "Mad" (Part 4, 1987)

Views: 1544

Here's Part Four of the movie "Mad" on WCFC-TV Channel 38 - our religious station in Chicago - during the program "Liberty Temple Full Gospel News". This feels like something that should be part of the Found Footage Festival.

It ends with a "To Be Continued..." which alas was at the end of the recording, so we are left without a conclusion. :-(

Mad: A true story about the life of Pastor Clifford E. Turner growing up as a young man in the inner city of Chicago, ...

WWJ Channel 4 - "Partial Station Sign-Off" (1978)

Views: 8001

At the end of a tape, after a recording of a movie ended, there was a bit of a previous recording that was taped over. We see most of the National Anthem, then some strange black and white bars, and then static. In the static you can hear bleeding through what perhaps was on another channel at the same time (during the static the tape kept speeding up which is why the audio races at times)

RetroNewfoundland (Vintage Canada) was enterprising enough to slow down the audio heard a...

WFLD Metromedia Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "Optimetric" (Break 3, Show #249)

Views: 2719

Here is commercial break #3 of WFLD Metromedia Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie presenting the movie "The Eye Creatures". Includes:

Murray Bikes

McDonald's

Brim Decaffinated Coffee

John M. Smyth's Homemakers (with Shelley Long)

Son of Svengoolie song "Optimetric", which was a parody of the Pointer Sisters' "Automatic" (has audio drop-outs) with Doug Scharf as Doug Graves

Wisk detergent

Minu...

WGN Channel 9 - Nightbeat with Marty McNeeley - "A Nightbeat New Year" (Part 1, 1983)

Views: 5592

Here's Part 1 of Nightbeat with Marty McNeeley on WGN Channel 9. Also featuring Bill Covington (of Independent Network News) and the voice of Pat Harper (from WGN's sister station in New York, WPIX Channel 11). Includes:

Animated WGN station ID with aerial shot of Chicago skyline at sunset in background

Nightbeat opening titles (way different from what was used in 1970's and early '80's)

Marty McNeeley opens the newscast by r...

WSNS Channel 44 - All Night Movies - "Magical Mystery Tour" (Commercial Break #1, 1980)

Views: 1864

Here's Commercial Break #1 from the Saturday All Night Movies presentation of "Magical Mystery Tour" on WSNS TV-44. Includes:

Channel 44 Saturday All Night Movies "Owl" Logo bumper

Record offer for the Rock Trilogy - Spotlight the Greatest Hits of Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, and Tommy Roe by Hall of Music and Interceptor Sounds (Main voiceover by Les Marshak. Ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds)

WSNS TV-44 promo for The Sunday Night Movie prese...

Star Beat Presents What's Happening! (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 3125

Here's another neat commercial for Starbeat! (previous to this we saw only one other Starbeat commercial, from 1983) This one features a different ending slide that also shows a picture of Steve Cronen.

Featuring Steve Cronen and the Starbeat Dictaphone at 948-8800! He's still around too with Starbeat Intermedia, Inc!

Featu...

WFLD Channel 32 - CNN News Headlines With Kathy McFarland (1983)

Views: 4354

Here are two News Headlines segments (with slight variations) featuring Kathy McFarland on WFLD Channel 32. These previews for the news appeared at two different times during the airing of the 7 O'Clock movie that night. The top story was Mayor Jane Byrne conceding the Democratic primary to Harold Washington.

By 1983 WFLD had dropped the "Newscene" moniker, and went with the generic "News Headlines". It also stopped being listed as a separate program airing at 9:55pm. Stran...

WGN Channel 9 - "Lottery Trainwreck" (1988)

Views: 2425

Here's an interesting clip - the Illinois Lottery drawing on WGN Channel 9 where on this particular night, the balls did not drop into the mixing chamber for the "Cash 5" game and the winning numbers had to be selected off camera and given via an on-screen scroll about 20 minutes later, during the 7 O'Clock Movie airing of "Vertigo".

Featuring Merri Dee doing the drawing. Not sure who the voiceover is by, although it sounds a little like Joan Kohn. Also features supervision b...

1st Metropolitan Builders - "Helping Chicagoland Families" with Peter Lawford (Commercial #1, 1979)

Views: 760

Here's a commercial for 1st Metropolitan Builders featuring legendary actor Peter Lawford outside and inside a Chicago area mansion, explaining how 1st Metropolitan helps "thousands of families" in and around the Chicago area remodel their homes to suit their changing needs.

This ad was produced five years before the co-star of such now-classic films as "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Good News" and "Royal Wedding," and onetime member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," died, on Dece...