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WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Opening, 1979)
Views: 2799
Now for some more neat old TV-44 footage!
Here is the opening to The 1 O'Clock Movie presentation of the animated "Gulliver's Travels" on WSNS. It probably starts about 7 seconds late, but it's mostly complete. We can see some scenes of famous stars and movies interspersed with the graphics - ones I can make out are Cary Grant in some movie and Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel from the film The Producers. And is that a scene from Metropolis?
Unfortunately (w...
WBBM Channel 2 - CBS Newsbreak with Marlene Sanders (1980)
Views: 1716
Here's a CBS Newsbreak with Marlene Sanders as aired on WBBM Channel 2. The headlines are, as follows:
- Consumer prices rose 1 percent in September and inflation rose to a rate of over 12 percent (with food prices the main culprit, and housing second), in the last report issued prior to the upcoming election
- Iran's Hostage Commission to meet Sunday (the 26th) to set conditions for 52 hostages' release, but President Carter says the Iranian government s...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Real People (Part 3, 1980)
Views: 1006
Here's Part 3 (the final part) of an episode of the prototypical "reality show" Real People on WMAQ Channel 5.
In this segment, hosts (from L - R) Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, Sarah Purcell and John Barbour sum up rhyming "thoughts to think about," with John musing about Three Mile Island's nuclear waste, Byron waxing philosophic about Gerald Ford's aborted 1980 Presidential run, Sarah ruminating on credit card charges, and Skip giving the lowdown on housing prices. Wi...
WMAQ Channel 5 - PSA's, Meditation, and Station Sign-Off (1989)
Views: 15851
Here are some public service announcements, then Meditation, and finally the station sign-off for WMAQ Channel 5. Includes:
PSA - Illegal Drugs: It's Not Someone Else's Problem
PSA - Project Serve with Janelle LaVigne
PSA - Medic Alert bracelets with Diahann Carroll and Vic Damone
PSA - United Way / Crusade of Mercy with Michael Jordan
PSA - Latino Institute with Migdalia (Millie) Rivera
Medit...
WKBS Channel 48 - Snipets - "Policeman" (1983)
Views: 526
From within the last few weeks of the existence of Field Communications' Philadelphia, PA station, WKBS Channel 48, here's another Snipets segment, "Policeman," which aired within a rerun of The Flintstones.
Beginning with the "worms" opening (and 1977 copyright date), we see patrolman Dave Jones describing his typical day, accompanied by pertinent footage: going to work at any time of the day, changing to his police uniform at the station, reading daily bulletin...
WGN Channel 9 - John Drury and NewsNine (Opening & Break, 1980)
Views: 6541
Here's the opening moments of John Drury and NewsNine on WGN Channel 9. Also featuring sportscaster Bill Frink (who, like Drury, had come to WGN from WLS Channel 7), meteorologist Roger Triemstra, and commentator Len O'Connor. Includes:
WGN "Last Farewell" ID (voiceover by Marty McNeeley)
John Drury teases the following headlines:
- President Carter reports progress in trying to get 52 U.S. hostages held in Tehran released
- Possibi...
WMAQ Channel 5 - Sign-On, "Meditations" & Opening of "The Health Field" (1982)
Views: 4426
Here is a station sign-on for WMAQ Channel 5 and the opening of "The Health Field" (which also aired on WSNS Channel 44 at various times) Includes:
16 seconds of Color Bars and tone.
WMAQ-TV Chicago 5 logo and silence for about a minute, 15 seconds.
Black for about 45 seconds. (Exciting, eh?)
WMAQ-TV Chicago 5 logo (brighter?) and Station Sign-On voiceover, "Good Morning. This is WMAQ-TV Channel 5 NBC Television in Chicago, welcom...
WBBM Channel 2 - Channel 2 Showcase - "Rosemary's Baby" (Ending Bumper, 1979)
Views: 1916
Here's the ending title bumper for the Channel 2 Showcase presentation of the 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby" on WBBM Channel 2. Heard over the music towards the end is a promo for an upcoming repeat of the public-affairs show Newsmakers with Walter Jacobson (voiceover by Bob Carrington)
The theme music for this filmed bumper was "Race With The Devil" by Chris Gunning, from th...
WKBS Channel 48 - Snipets - "Homework First" (1983)
Views: 991
Not from Chicago, but rather from a sister Field station in Philadelphia - WKBS Channel 48 - that was at the time a few weeks away from leaving the air permanently, a victim of the implosion of Field Communications.
This is an installment of Snipets which we're entitling "Homework First." The later animated Snipets open is used with the worms materializing and ending up inside a circle with the title atop them, and a 1974 copyright date is listed; though credited...