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WGN Channel 9 - When Movies Were Movies - "A Night At The Opera" (Bumper, 1979?)
Views: 3487
Here is a bumper for the When Movies Were Movies presentation of the Marx Brothers classic "A Night at the Opera" on WGN Channel 9.
Notice the artwork of the studio lights is the same as in the other example.
The bumper music is from another portion of the instrumental
WMAQ Channel 5 - "Slid Too Soon" (1975)
Views: 2489
Here's a portion of a full commercial break for the NBC Monday Night At The Movies presentation of the 1974 made-for-TV movie "A Case Of Rape" on WMAQ Channel 5, which features a technical boo-boo. Includes:
Commercial for Arby's with Will Geer(?) with "Buy Three, The Fourth's Free" offer (at start, brief erroneous chroma-key of station ID / Mike Douglas Show promo slide)
Commercial: Cadile...
WGN Channel 9 - When Movies Were Movies - "The Petrified Forest" (Bumper Excerpts, 1972)
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The transfer of this video clip made possible by your generous donations! WTHR Channel 13 - "NBC-Style Station ID" & Promo (1979)
Views: 1350 Here's an animated station ID for WTHR Channel 13 in Indianapolis, Indiana, as in the style of many an NBC affiliate between 1976 and 1979, with a promo for an airing of the 1967 George C. Scott film "The Flim-Flam Man" for August 2nd at 3:30pm.
Here are a couple bumper excerpts from the When Movies Were Movies presentation of "The Petrified Forest" (1936) on WGN Channel 9.
This is an early example of the particular "style" of this long-running movie showcase as would be seen in color on this 1979 opening and
Voiceover by ??
NOTE: This aired precisely two months to the day after WTHR (which had signed on as WLWI on October 30th 1957, and adopted their current call letters in February 1976 after a change in station mana...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial 5 - "Deep Tunnel in Deep Trouble" (1979)
Views: 1843
Here's an editorial by Dillon Smith, Editorial Director of WMAQ Channel 5, about the massive cost overruns that have been plaguing Chicago's deep tunnel project that was intended to allow rain water to flow through reservoirs and keep out polluted water.
Dillon cites how estimates of its cost (which politicians have had no concern about, due to the federal government shelling out the money) have gone up from $3 billion to $7 billion to a more recent General Accounting Office es...
WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Hoffman & Ski Show" (Part 5, 1978)
Views: 1593
Here's Part 5 of an (incomplete) episode of AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7. Includes:
Robb Weller at Ski Show '78, briefly talking with "Bunny Jennifer" (a skier from Lake Geneva) who will be at the Playboy booth all weekend, before going back to the studio for another live commercial for Gloria Marshall Figure Salons, with Wilma Stevens (sp?) who attends their Merrillville branch, and gives her testimonial as to how and why she joined. This spot shows the addresses of th...
WSNS Channel 44 - Popeye with Steve Hart - "Animal Corner" (1975)
Views: 418
Here's the "Animal Corner" segment of Popeye with Steve Hart which aired on WSNS Channel 44. This segment was hosted by Bob Hoffman. This was from the original master tape, recorded on August 12th 1975. Includes:
"Animal Corner" bumper and intro (voiceover by Steve Hart)
Bob Hoffman shows a baby pigeon, who is technically called a "squeaker" as he emphasizes. Even with background music, we can still hear this baby pigeon squeak, which is how they got t...
WLS Channel 7 - Saturday Eyewitness News (Preview & Pre-Show Break, 1977)
Views: 3598
Here's the preview for the WLS Channel 7 Saturday Eyewitness News at 10pm featuring Bob Petty, followed by the pre-show Commercial Break. Includes:
Preview of Saturday Eyewitness News with Bob Petty - with stories including the first test flight of the Space Shuttle, charges made that J. Edgar Hoover spied on Americans for years, and flags flying at half-mast - in the public interest - at the Field Museum. Plus - the Father's Day weather outlook.
Commercial: Am...
Hooray for Reading - "The TV Kid" (#6, 1979)
Views: 728
Here is the sixth in a series of ten, minute-long shorts (or interstitials as they are sometimes known) created by Field Communications for children called Hooray for Reading. These would air during the commercial breaks on kid's shows and cartoons.
These featured kids briefly doing some other activity besides reading (the "hook") and then describing a book they like using a brief dramatization of a part in the story.
This one is based on the book "The TV Kid" by...