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The Most Important Person - "OOPS, I Made A Mistake!" (1972)

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Here is probably the most famous segment of the animated short "The Most Important Person". This one's called "OOPS, I Made A Mistake!".

In Chicago, these aired during commercial breaks on WFLD Channel 32 and WTTW Channel 11 during the seventies and possibly as late as the early eighties.

Distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation - EBE.

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WGN Channel 9 - 10th Inning - "John McNamara" (Partial, 1979)

Views: 1816

Here's the first four minutes or so (before the tape cut out) of the 10th Inning show on WGN Channel 9. Features Jack Brickhouse interviewing John McNamara, manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Also includes a complete commercial break (which only includes one commercial) - for Fencl-Tufo's Chevy City, featuring a goofy Dracula puppet.

Also includes a WGN "Last-Farewell" animated Station ID at the beginning (voiceover by Clif Mercer)

This aired on local Chicago TV o...

Gigglesnort Hotel (Opening)

Views: 11504

Here is the opening from one of the best and most remembered Chicago children's shows (although it was eventually syndicated to other markets) - Gigglesnort Hotel.

Even though it was seen for many years after it was produced, the show was only in production for 3 years - 1975, 1976, and 1977. In Chicago, it aired on Sunday mornings on WLS Channel 7.

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NBC Network - "Elvis Has Left The Building" (Part 3, 1977)

Views: 2713

Here is Part 3 of an NBC Special Report (on local Rockford affilliate WTVO Channel 17) from when it was first announced that Elvis Presley had died. Features Jackson Bain and David Brinkley reporting.

Features the NBC Special Report graphic at the end, an NBC network ID (voiceover by Howard Reig), and the beginning of a promo for a new series, "Big Hawaii", before the recording ends.

"Pressed on blue vinyl."

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on ...

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 Update (1978)

Views: 2332

Here's a NewsCenter5 update on WMAQ Channel 5, read (off-camera) by Ed Grennan. Headlines include:

- Anti-nuclear protest outside Rocky Flats nuclear plant in Colorado, calling for plant's closure

- Former President Richard Nixon writes that he considered Watergate "just a public relations problem"

- Northwest Airlines' pilots still on strike

- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to enter United States

This u...

WKBD Channel 50 - The Sunday Movie - "The Mudlark" (Opening, 1977)

Views: 3009

This is pretty cool - an old movie opening that they may have used a version of on WFLD - one of WKBD's sister stations.

Here's the opening to The Sunday Movie broadcast of "The Mudlark" on WKBD Channel 50 in Detroit. Check out those groovy green graphics. Also includes at the beginning the animated Kaiser Broadcasting ID and a WKBD bumper slide for Father's Day. (voiceover by ??)

Sunday Movie Intro voiceover by ??

This aired on local Detroit TV...

Wrigley's Spearmint Gum - "Carry the Big Fresh Flavor" (Commercial, 1974)

Views: 3614

Here's one of the more memorable (and oft-parodied) commercial campaigns for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. This takes place in and around an airport, with flight crew and passengers carrying large Wrigley's Spearmint Gum boxes. Notice at the start, jet planes displaying the Piedmont Airlines brand (this Piedmont was in existence from 1948 to 1989, and subsequently absorbed by USAir; today's Piedmont was instituted in 1993).

"Carry the big fresh flavor, wherever you go, whatever...