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The ABC Summer Movie (Bumper, 1981)

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Here's a bumper for a rare ABC Movie show variation - The ABC Summer Movie. Same music as ABC Sunday Night Movie though. (70s version)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, July 8th 1981. (29 Years Ago Today!)

WFLD Channel 32 - Drive-In Movie (Ending, 1984)

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Here is a clip of an end bumper for the WFLD Channel 32 Drive-In Movie. Announces the Son of Svengoolie movie "The Eye Creatures" coming up next. This dates to April 1984. With Jim Barton Announcing.

Theme music: "Alone at a Drive-In Movie" from the movie Grease (albeit sped up) - this movie show title and theme were also used in New York by sister-station WNEW (now WNYW) Channel 5.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, April 28th 1984....

ABC Movie Special - "Star Tunnel" (Opening, 1982)

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Here is the terrific "Star Tunnel" version of the ABC Movie opening, which began in Fall of 1981. This is the "ABC Movie Special" version, although the same theme and graphics were used for "The ABC Sunday Night Movie".

Really got you hyped up to see a good flick! :-)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, September 24th 1982.

ABC Tuesday Movie Of The Week (Bumper, 1981)

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Here's a bumper for the ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week.

They used this for a long time in the 70s, right? I'm surprised it was still being used as late as this airing. The movie, which ended after midnight, was "Three on a Date".

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, February 25th 1981.

WMAQ Channel 5 - Movie 5 (Ending, 1989)

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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.

32 Movie Club (Promo, 1984)

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Here's a promo for the Channel 32 Movie Club - where you get to choose which movie to watch! (Sounds like an early version of American Idol)

Jim Barton announcing.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV in February of 1984.

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

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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 ...

WSNS Channel 44 - T.H.E. Movie - "You and Me" (Partial Promo, 1976)

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Here's a partial promo for an upcoming airing of the 1938 George Raft / Sylvia Sidney film "You and Me," to air on another obscure TV-44 movie show, this one called T.H.E. Movie (who knows what T.H.E. stood for, if anything?), airing at 8pm. The tape cuts out just before the promo ends. Features their usual multicolored layout for movie bumper slides as prevalent at the time, with a still of Raft and the movie title and stars' names set in Helvetica Medium.

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WSNS Channel 44 - Monster Rally Movie - "Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural" (Partial Bumper #1, 1980)

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Here's one of the few glimpses yet found of a show that a lot of people remember and have requested footage of - Monster Rally Movie! This aired on WSNS Channel 44 and reportedly had it's own host - a mysterious figure in a creepy costume. Here we get to see only a partial commercial bumper from the show - the only type of footage (other than the movie itself) known to exist currently. The movie this night was the very weird 1973 film Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural.