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WLS Channel 7 - The 3:30 Movie - "Jason And The Argonauts" (Commercial Break #7, 1978)

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Here's Commercial Break #7 during the 3:30 Movie presentation of "Jason and the Argonauts" on WLS Channel 7. Includes:

3:30 Movie bumper

The Park West invites you to spend New Year's Eve Weekend with Chuck Berry and Special Guest Henny Youngman (cut off early) (see now I swear this voiceover person is NOT Al Parker, even though it sounds similar to him - who is it?)

Armourcote commercial offer (the original!) (again)

WLS Eyewitness N...

Your Arms Too Short To Box With God at the Studebaker Theatre (Commercial, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for Vinnette Carroll's Your Arms Too Short To Box With God at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago, which at the time of this airing was held over for one more week. The commercial was made during its 1976-78 run on Broadway in New York City. (The reference to the original cast album on ABC Records at the end of this commercial is a clue as to its production origin, as by 1981 ABC Records no longer existed, having been sold by the network in 1979 to, and its artist r...

Shrink Magic (Commercial, 1975)

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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...

WBBM Channel 2 - New Year's Eve: Chicago Style (Part 3, 1979/1980)

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Here's Part 3 of "New Year's Eve: Chicago Style" - a special on WBBM Channel 2. Unfortunately, the recording starts during a commercial break and we miss the first 10 minutes or so of the broadcast - still, lots of local fun in this one. :-) This part includes:

John Coughlin accepts the snowball and then throws to a commercial.

Commercial: Vaseline - "Wonder Jelly" (which coincidently was my nickname in High School)

Commercial: Brown's Chicken - "...

KNBC Channel 4 - Ending of NewsCenter4 - Early Edition with Paul Moyer & Kelly Lange and Editorial Reply (1977)

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Not from Chicago, but one which, "even then," had overtaken Chicago as the "Second City" in population: a clip of the ending minutes of the early edition of NewsCenter4 with anchors Paul Moyer and Kelly Lange on KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles. Also features Paul Dandridge, John Marshall and Boyd Matson. This was on the tail end of a 3/4" Umatic tape where something was recorded over most of this. (A side note: The weather at this point in time was handled by a young chap named Pat ...

WBBM Channel 2 - A Charlie Brown Christmas (Excerpts, 1975)

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Here's some excerpts of the 1975 airing of the Peanuts special A Charlie Brown Christmas on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:

Tail end of WBBM ID bumper slide with shot of Christmas lights in front of Chicago skyline - a slightly different station logo than would be used a few years from here, with the "2" in Serif Gothic Heavy and call letters and city in Serif Gothic Bold (same font as used by sister station WCBS Channel 2 in New York from 1973 to 1985, and by KNXT Channel 2 ...

WSNS Channel 44 - Monster Rally Movie - "Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural" (Partial Bumper #3 + Partial All Night Movies Promo, 1980)

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Here's one of the few glimpses yet found of a show that a lot of people remember and have requested footage of - Monster Rally Movie! This aired on WSNS Channel 44 and reportedly had it's own host - a mysterious figure in a creepy costume. Here we get to see another partial commercial bumper from the show - the only type of footage (other than the movie itself) known to exist currently. We also get to see (most of) another one of those great, spooky TV-44

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