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K-Tel - Night Moves with Deney Terrio (Commercial, 1979)

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Here's a commercial for the record and book set - "Night Moves" ("The Professional Approach to Disco Dance Instruction") from K-tel Records which features Deney Terrio (host of Dance Fever and also notably as the person who "taught John Travolta how to dance" for the film Saturday Night Fever)

The nerdy guy kind of reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite.

Ending voiceover by ??

"You can't dance?!?!!!"

This aired on local...

WGN Channel 9 - WGN Friday Night Movie - "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (Commercial Break, 1980)

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Here's a commercial break during the WGN Friday Night Movie presentation of "The Incredible Shrinking Man" on WGN Channel 9. Includes:

All Temperature Cheer - "Dad's Old Sweater"

Ball Park franks - "Summer at the Lake"

WGN Weather Break with Tom Skilling

WGN Friday Night Movie bumper (voiceover by Clif Mercer)

Robitussin cough syrup

Charmin toilet tissue with Mr. Whipple - "The Soft...

Shrink Magic (Commercial, 1975)

Views: 841

Here's a commercial for Shrink Magic, which curls and shrinks any object from an idea book (traced onto plastic, colored pertinently and then baked for 3 minutes) into jewelry, mobile strips, and other contraptions - even cartoon characters such as a certain clown. A fast-motion example of one such object (of a frog) being shrunk to one-third of its original size by baking is shown.

Something tells me this toy might have been a bigger seller with a catchier name - maybe someth...

WSNS Channel 44 - All Night Movies - "Magical Mystery Tour" (Commercial Break #1, 1980)

Views: 1870

Here's Commercial Break #1 from the Saturday All Night Movies presentation of "Magical Mystery Tour" on WSNS TV-44. Includes:

Channel 44 Saturday All Night Movies "Owl" Logo bumper

Record offer for the Rock Trilogy - Spotlight the Greatest Hits of Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, and Tommy Roe by Hall of Music and Interceptor Sounds (Main voiceover by Les Marshak. Ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds)

WSNS TV-44 promo for The Sunday Night Movie prese...

WSNS Channel 44 - Monster Movie One -"The Night of the Sorcerers" (Opening, 1981)

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Here is the opening for WSNS Channel 44's Saturday Monster Movie presentation of "The Night of the Sorcerers" (A.K.A. “La Noche de los Brujos”). Includes:

Don Ferris does the voiceover announcement of the movie, while the theme song, Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" plays (with some screaming or animal noises mixed in?) and some imagery from monster movies is shown. You also get to see the "An Avco Embassy Television Presentation" logo and the first few minut...

Prom Night (Trailer For TV #1, 1980)

Views: 1635

Here's a theatrical movie trailer for TV for the film "Prom Night".

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, July 13th 1980.

Prom Night (Trailer For TV #2, 1980)

Views: 1700

Here's another theatrical movie trailer for TV for the film "Prom Night".

This aired on local Chicago TV early Sunday, July 13th 1980.

WLS Channel 7 - News Bulletin - "The Crash of Flight 191" (Part 6, 1979)

Views: 1771

Here's Part 6 of WLS Channel 7's news coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 (a DC-10 manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas; scheduled to travel from Chicago to Los Angeles), 1/2 mile northwest of O'Hare Airport. Featuring Joel Daly, Diane Allen, and Jim Gibbons. Includes:

Joel has taken Fahey Flynn's place alongside Diane Allen as a shot of the bank of ambulances and fire trucks at the crash scene is shown on the screen behind them. Joel introduces a video of a hel...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 - "Disco Demolition Already In Progress" (1979)

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Here's a news clip from NewsCenter 5 on WMAQ Channel 5 giving an update on the Disco Demolition fiasco at Comiskey Park that night.

Mike Pumo reports via phone to Jim Ruddle that the second game of the double-header has been cancelled along with some other details.

I am assuming that this report was from the regular 10pm news that night - and assuming that this was their lead story, can we assume then that the 2nd game was officially cancelled around 10pm that ...