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WFLD Channel 32 - Movie For A Saturday Afternoon - "The Big Broadcast of 1938" (Bumper Excerpt, 1979)

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Here's another small but rare excerpt of a bumper for the "Movie for a Saturday Afternoon" presentation of the Bob Hope and W.C. Fields movie, "The Big Broadcast of 1938" on WFLD Channel 32.

If you pause it at the right moment you can make out the "film strip" framing as well as the old "Kaiser-era" 32 logo and some kind of green-jelly like effect in the background (which was evidently used for this program as late as 1980).

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sat...

The ABC Monday Night Movie - "Superdome" (Opening & Break, 1978)

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Here's the opening and first commercial break of The ABC Sunday Night Movie presentation of "Superdome". Includes:

"The ABC Monday Night Movie" opening. (voiceover by Joel Crager)

Commercial: Contac.

Commercial: Stanley Tools.

Commercial: Protein 29 Conditioning Hair Groom - "It takes care of the hair that's still there."

Commercial: Ore-Ida frozen hash browns - "It's All-Righta".

Opening of "Superdome...

WLS Channel 7 - The 3:30 Movie - "Planet Earth" (Bumper Promo, 1980)

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Here is a short bumper promo for the Channel 7 3:30pm Movie presentation of "Planet Earth" that aired on Monday, March 17th 1980. (Watch that whip, sister!)

Voiceover by Gary Gears.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 16th 1980.

WFLD Channel 32 - Saturday Morning Movie - "God Is My Co-Pilot" (Ending Bumper, 1981)

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Here's the ending bumper from the Saturday Morning Movie presentation of "God is my Co-Pilot" on WFLD Channel 32.

Also features a brief snippet at the end of an Award Lumber & Construction commercial featuring Bud Kelly.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 27th 1981 at a few minutes before 12 Noon.

WLS Channel 7 - The 3:00 Movie - "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave" (Technical Difficulties Moment, 1982)

Views: 2021

Here's a little technical difficulty moment from The 3:00 Movie presentation of the 1969 film "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave" on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

Tail end of commercial for Mountain Dew soda - "Give Me a Dew"

3:00 Movie "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave" bumper

Film transmission comes in before the start, with a brief showing of a frame reading: DRAC R-2, with an upside-down '3', before the next part of the film commences...

WFLD Channel 32 - Movie 32 - "Topper Takes A Trip" (Break #3, 1971)

Views: 5340

Here's Commercial Break #3 for the Movie 32 presentation of "Topper Takes a Trip" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Golden Days of Radio record offer with Jim Ameche from the Longines Symphonette Society (ending voiceover by Del Clark)

WFLD Station ID (voiceover by Del Clark)

Movie 32 bumper (in color) with voiceover - "And now we return to tonight's feature 'Topper Takes a Trip'...". (by Del Clark)

This aired on local Chicago TV ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "Bride of Frankenstein" (Break #1, 1983)

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Here's the first commercial break for the Son of Svengoolie presentation of the 1935 film "Bride of Frankenstein" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

"WOOO in Berwyn" segment, with Sven as disk jockey playing "all music, all the time," starting off with a mock commercial for House of Lard (voiceover by Rich Koz) with an editorial from "Vice President and General Mangler" Zallman T. Tombstone, Jr. in which Tombstone complaining about somebody eating lunch at his desk; Sven then...

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...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "Bride of Frankenstein" (Break #2, 1983)

Views: 882

Here's the second commercial break for the Son of Svengoolie presentation of the 1935 film "Bride of Frankenstein" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Son of Svengoolie bumper

Commercial: Superman Creamy Peanut Butter - "Its Strength Is Its Great Taste" - TM & (C) DC Comics, Inc. 1983

Commercial: A&W Root Beer - "Delicious" - "That Frosty Mug Sensation - 100% Caffeine Free"

Commercial: Lysol Deodorizing Cleaner - "Spring ...