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Helen Keller International - "If You Wore These for a Day..." (PSA, 1980)

Views: 2603

Here's a brief PSA for Helen Keller International, imploring people to wear blindfolds for one day to gain a better understanding of what it's like to be blind, and why it's important to donate to the organization that helps them.

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Atlanta TV (and transmitted to Chicago via cable) on Friday, October 31st 1980.

Superstation WTBS Channel 17 - Movie 17 - "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" (Opening & Break, 1980)

Views: 1204

Here's the opening and first commercial break for the Movie 17 presentation of "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" [1972; a.k.a. "Revenge of the Living Dead"] on Superstation WTBS Channel 17 in Atlanta, GA, the first such major "superstation" that became an icon through national transmission to cable systems across the country. Includes:

Movie 17 titles with shot of 35mm film can (from which such objects as a reel and director's chair are stored) and funky...

Superstation WTBS Channel 17 - Movie 17 - "Don't Look in the Basement" (Opening with Alternate Title Slide, 1980)

Views: 292

Here's the opening moments of the Movie 17 presentation of "Don't Look in the Basement" [reissue title for the 1973 horror film "The Forgotten"] on Superstation WTBS Channel 17 in Atlanta, GA, which aired all over the country via cable and satellite. Includes:

Partial opening Movie 17 title sequence, with voiceover (by ??) announcing film

Opening sequence of film, with reissue title (set in Bolt Bold) and credits some eight minutes into the movie

WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics - "Moby Dick" (Opening, 1981)

Views: 1881

Here's the opening of the Family Classics presentation of Moby Dick [1956] on WGN Channel 9.

Hosted by Frazier Thomas.

Preceded by a WGN station ID bumper, the Cubs/Sox "baseball" variant (voiceover by Clif Mercer)

Previous to this we saw the opening of a 1985 airing of the same film on Family Classics, which sadly occurred a few weeks after Frazier Thomas pass...

McDonald's - "Daddy's Breakfast" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2131

Here's a commercial for McDonald's, with a father coming home to and doting on his young toddler offspring, while one of their eager young space-cadet workers behind the counter touts their breakfast menu of scrambled eggs with sausage and hash browns, hot cakes and sausage, and Egg McMuffin, all to the strains of their jingle of the time, "You're the One."

(C) Copyright McDonald's Corp. 1979.

This aired on local Philadelphia TV on Sunday, April 29th 1979.

District Furniture & Appliances - "Come Down to the District" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1317

By request, here's an earworm-inducing commercial for District Furniture and Appliances, with banjo-infused old-timey dixieland-type music in the background and a sale offer on a Sylvania 19" color TV plus a pair of lounge chairs - all for only $379. (Golly gee! Where can you find such an equivalent deal today?)

The jingle is a takeoff on the popular old-time tune, "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee.".

District Furniture and Appliances was located at 4501 South Pul...

Panos Productions (Demonstration Reel, 1978)

Views: 1367

Here's a promo demo reel for Panos Productions, a local Chicago video production house that produced some local TV commercials and at least one program. (Outdoor Sportsman on WCIU Channel 26)

The fonts seen here are from a very primitive CG system, along the lines of 3M Datavision (but different from what was used by WSNS Channel 44).

Includes:

Roughly two seconds of EIA RS-18...

WGN Channel 9 - Family Classics - "Chad Hanna" (Opening, 1982)

Views: 1757

Here's the opening of the Family Classics presentation of Chad Hanna [1940] on WGN Channel 9.

Hosted by Frazier Thomas.

Preceded by a WGN bumper promo for "The Big Valley" capped with a short "Superman" station ID (voiceover by Jack Taylor)

The Family Classics theme song was called "Moviescope" and was a piece of library music c...

Santa's Village with Larry Lujack - "Just a Kid At Heart" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2458

Here's a commercial for The Three Worlds of Santa's Village in Dundee, Illinois featuring legendary radio legend Larry Lujack, the charming and delightful ol' Uncle Lar.

Superjock is wearing a #89 jersey, which likely was a subtle (?) nod to his longtime home station WLS-AM 890 ("The Big 89").

Is there something in this ad that is slightly unsettling?

This aired on local Chicag...