WFLD Channel 32 - Super Cartoon Sunrise - "Battle of the Planets Variation" (Opening, 1979)

Here's another opening for Super Cartoon Sunrise on WFLD Channel 32, which was saved on 16mm film. The lineup consists here of Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Battle of the Planets, and Fred Flintstone and Friends.

The theme song used is a jazzy, funky, disco-fied instrumental version of "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here." (anyone know where it came from or who played on it?)

This film was produced for WFLD by Chicago-based Ritter-Waxberg Animation on 6-8-79. (The company that did Super Cartoon Sunrise?!?! Finally revealed? Now we have to track them down!)

On the production slate at the start of this film are job number RW-3274 and stock #7247. This slate is preceded by a Kodak color control patch and gray scale.

MODIFICATION NOTICE: I always state when something has been modified, so as not to disrupt the purity of your fuzzy experience. ;-) This was originally a silent 16mm film, so I had to add the sound manually. I actually spent quite a while making sure it was synchronized correctly. I used the audio track from this clip which did include the sound originally since it was from a Umatic tape. Obviously, also conspicuously missing from what you would actually hear on the air is Dr. Don Rose's wacky voiceover.

Artwork by Cathy Mustari, WFLD Channel 32's art director from 1974 until the late-eighties.

This aired on local Chicago TV for a period starting in mid-1979.

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