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WFLD Channel 32 - Movie For A Saturday Afternoon - "The Kettles On Old McDonald's Farm" (Ending, 1980)

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Here's something pretty rare - some footage from WFLD Channel 32's Movie for a Saturday Afternoon featuring the Kaiser-era 32 logo, so this must have dated to at least early 1977 (Previous to this we only had a tiny excerpt of this bumper). Most of it was taped over unfortunately, but this is what remains. This last segment, with complete commercial break and ending sequence, includes:

Ending of "...

WFLD Channel 32 - 6 O'Clock Movie (Opening, 1978)

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Direct from 2" Quad videotape, with the help of your generous donations, and from the collection of former WFLD director Don Shannon - here is the opening for the 6 O'Clock Movie on WFLD Channel 32 from 1978! This one has a spinning film reels motif.

We first see a production info sheet that gives the details on the opening. This was number 8792 and was directed by Don Shannon. The opening runs for 20 seconds and was recorded on 6-1-78. (I wonder when they started using thi...

WLS Channel 7 - Sunday Night Movie - "Lolita" (Promo, 1973)

Views: 2005

Here's a promo for the upcoming Sunday Night Movie presentation of the 1962 film "Lolita" starring James Mason and Sue Lyon, to air on Sunday, June 10th 1973 at 10:45pm.

This was preserved on a silent 16mm film (I added the Lolita theme since I wasn't sure what else might have been appropriate). The actual airing of this promo would have been accompanied by a voiceover from any of Channel 7's staff announcer...

WFLD Channel 32 - Movie 32 - "Topper Takes A Trip" (Missing Scene, 1971)

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Here's something weird - maybe the technical folks can tell us what happened here. During the opening of the Movie 32 presentation of "Topper Takes a Trip" on WFLD Channel 32 we see the credits stop and suddenly replaced by a number slide with "1596" written in grease pencil, then it goes to black, and then the credits resume.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 28th 1971.

WGN Channel 9 - WGN Presents - "Wild in the Country" (Bumper, 1984)

Views: 3671

Here is a WGN Presents bumper for a showing of the Elvis movie "Wild in the Country" on WGN Channel 9. Features the famous long-running theme music of WGN Presents.

Voiceover by Bob Bell.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, January 7th 1984.

The CBS Late Movie - "Barnaby Jones" (Promo, 1979)

Views: 1233

Here's a promo for The CBS Late Movie presentation of Barnaby Jones airing Tuesday, February 20th 1979.

Voiceover by Norm Stevens.

This promo aired on local Chicago TV early Tuesday, February 20th 1979.

Son of Svengoolie - "The First Episode!" (1979)

Views: 9503

Here's something really great - the opening to the very first episode of Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32. Introduced in voiceover by Jerry G. Bishop (the original Svengoolie, 1970-1973), who passes the "torch" to Rich Koz.

The movie presented was "In the Year 2889". (marked down from $29.95. narf-narf-narf...)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 16th 1979. (at 8pm!)

WGN Channel 9 - The 9 O'Clock News - "Roy Leonard Reviews Santa Claus: The Movie" (1985)

Views: 2644

Here's an excerpt from the 9 O'Clock News on WGN Channel 9 - Rick Rosenthal introducing Roy Leonard for his review of "Santa Claus: The Movie". (The anchor at the end is Pat Harvey)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, November 29th 1985.

Activision - Pitfall! With Jack Black (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 7539

Here's a commercial for the videogame Pitfall! by Activision and featuring at the beginning a very young-looking appearance of the actor Jack Black - rockin' the pith helmet.

That girl at the end - I remember her from Twilight Zone: The Movie too - but I know she's been in lots of other stuff from the time period.

Available at: Walgreen's and Video Etc.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 30th 1983.