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WSNS Channel 44 - Bob Luce Wrestling - "Report on Verne Gagne Loss" (1974)

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Transferred direct from 16mm film, here is a film insert (mostly complete, apparently but cuts off at the end) from Bob Luce Wrestling, on WSNS Channel 44.

Al reports on the wrestling championship loss of Verne Gagne.

Camerawork by Bob Varecha.

This report was filmed live at the International Amphitheater on Saturday, July 20th 1974.

Long Chevrolet - "Camaros" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 3539

Here's another Long Chevrolet commercial with Timmy all grown up. Actually, they must have reused commercials or something because he seems older in this one from 1979 than he does in one that aired in 1981.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, September 9th 1979.

WSNS Channel 44 - Sports Spotlight - "Sleeper Hold" (1979?)

Views: 3288

Here's a rare clip from Sports Spotlight on WSNS Channel 44 featuring wrestler Verne Gagne demonstrating a sleeper hold move on a couple of TV-44 staffers. Not sure who the first guy is, but the guy with the beard is John Dickinson (who was also the producer on the Money Movie)

Also features Dave Condon - columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

Not sure when this aired -...

WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News - "Cubs Clinch" (Segments, 1984)

Views: 5710

Here are some segments from Eyewitness News on WLS Channel 7 from the night the Cubs clinched the NL East division title with a 4-1 win in Pittsburgh. Featuring Mike Adamle, Tim Weigel, Jim Frey, Dallas Green, Joel Daly at Murphy's Bleachers bar, Cubs fans Dick O'Connor and Larry Wilson, Jay Levine, and Jerry Pritikin, the "Voodoo Man".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, September 24th 1984.

Channel 6 (Nashville) - "A Primitive Weather Channel Christmas" (Excerpt, 1975)

Views: 7964

Not from Chicago, but still of historical interest: a weird oddity - an excerpt from cable Channel 6 in Nashville, Tennessee (broadcasting in black and white), with what amounts to a primitive version of The Weather Channel, with readings of Wind Direction, Wind Velocity, Barometric Pressure, Temperature, Time, and Current Speed in MPH (just kidding). Plus, it includes a (literal) community bulletin board (including, at one point, a notice for town carolers). All this with a hypnotic, end...

WGN Channel 9 - "Lottery Trainwreck" (1988)

Views: 2438

Here's an interesting clip - the Illinois Lottery drawing on WGN Channel 9 where on this particular night, the balls did not drop into the mixing chamber for the "Cash 5" game and the winning numbers had to be selected off camera and given via an on-screen scroll about 20 minutes later, during the 7 O'Clock Movie airing of "Vertigo".

Featuring Merri Dee doing the drawing. Not sure who the voiceover is by, although it sounds a little like Joan Kohn. Also features supervision b...

WKBS Channel 48 - The $50,000 Pyramid (Break #1, 1981)

Views: 2645

Here are a couple items from the Field Communications station WKBS Channel 48 in Philadelphia which shut down in 1983. This aired during a broadcast of the $50,000 Pyramid game show with Dick Clark. Includes:

A movie promo for Farewell to the Planet of the Apes - More Movie - Fewer Commercials!

Local commercial for automotive and electronics training at Pennco Tech of Pennsauken, New Jersey.

This aired on local Philadelphia TV on Thursday, Februa...

WGN Channel 9 - Night Beat - "Spooky Lottery Hijinx" (1980)

Views: 5378

Here's an excerpt from an episode of Night Beat on WGN Channel 9 where the news story was about a lottery fraud and scandal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that took place on Thursday, April 24th 1980, in which people tampered with and rigged the "Daily Number" game by injecting liquid into the ping-pong balls, in order to weigh them down and produce a desired outcome.

Seen selecting the balls is "senior citizen witness" Violet Lowery (not implicated in the scheme). The m...

WMAQ Channel 5 - "Elsewhere On The Day After" (1983)

Views: 1942

On the night that The Day After - an ABC presentation about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States (and one of the most-watched movies for television) aired, NBC Sunday Night at the Movies aired Part 1 of the mini-series Kennedy. Here's the ending of it and the post-show commercial break. Incidently, the creators of The Day After originally envisioned the movie to also span over multiple nights, but they decided against it after consideri...