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WTTW Channel 11 - Movie Eleven - "Swept Away" (Opening, 1980)

Here is the opening for the WTTW Channel 11 - "Movie Eleven" presentation of "Swept Away". This opening features scenes from classic movies - can anyone name them all?

Music used is a classical piece by Wendy Carlos - I think it's the same theme that the Frugal Gourmet used. Anyone know the name of the piece and the composer? Something from Switched On Bach perhaps?

Includes a partial WTTW Station ID slide at the beginning.

Voiceover by Don Ferris.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, May 9th 1980 @ 10:30pm.

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It is from "Switched-On Bach" but I never had the album; I heard it on the radio a long, long time ago and they mentioned the album and track name, but I don't remember it. I remember "Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto" (or "Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August"); it came out around the same time as "Switched-on Bach". The only memorable thing, as I recall, was the title...

Channel 11 had a particularly good collection of movies. So did all the Chicago stations, come to think of it.
Comment posted by ro46214 on Thursday, February 12th 2009 at 8:11am.

I have the RCA SelectaVision CED of this movie but it is dubbed in English and not subtitled. There was a remake of "Swept Away" starring Madonna and Guy Ritchie but failed at the box-office.
Comment posted by betamax75 on Thursday, February 12th 2009 at 11:19am.

Gee, and I had just about forgotten the Madonna version...
Comment posted by ro46214 on Thursday, February 12th 2009 at 4:09pm.

Well, I know for sure one of the clips was from Metropolis but I'm not sure of the others.
Comment posted by smctopia on Thursday, February 12th 2009 at 8:15pm.

The Madonna version I've heard was awful. Never saw it. I was trying to place the movies, but could only pick a few. I think one was Metropolis. I remember when Channel 11 ran movies. I saw Night of the Living Dead (the original) one night sometime in the late 80's-early 90's.
Comment posted by LaPrincess on Friday, February 13th 2009 at 1:52am.

It must have been a very dirty movie for such a strong warning.
Comment posted by visaman on Sunday, February 15th 2009 at 7:38pm.

What's wrong with just saying "viewer discretion is strongly advised?"?
Comment posted by CelesteK on Sunday, May 10th 2009 at 10:25pm.

PBS is always more wordy. ;-)
Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Sunday, May 10th 2009 at 10:39pm.

I recogized clips from The red Shoes and Beauty and the Beast in the opening.
Comment posted by 4thtroika on Sunday, May 17th 2009 at 6:14pm.

Some of the other clips are from A Rocking Horse Winner, Alexander Nevsky, Rashomon, Jules and Jim, La Strada, and Black Orpheus. I grew up as a kid watching foreign films on channel 11 in the 1970's and seeing that clip brings me back lots of warm memories. Also channel 11 did air Wertmuller's Seven Beauties..uncut with the nudity!
Comment posted by moviebuff33 on Monday, June 1st 2009 at 7:02pm.

Cool, thanks Moviebuff33! Ah, the things you can get away with on PBS... ;-)
Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Monday, June 1st 2009 at 9:14pm.

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Didn't Steve Dahl already kill disco with his 'Disco Demolition Night' at Comiskey Park months earlier?


Comment posted in ON TV - "Premiere Night" (Opening, 1980) by AnnArborMI90 on Saturday, May 25th, 2013 at 7:49am CT

"Snowbird Fantasy," "The Walkman," and "Touchdown"? The programmer at 44 really liked Bob James, I guess!


Comment posted in ON TV - "Premiere Night" (Opening, 1980) by FuzzyMemories on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 11:53pm CT

Boomer933 - Sorry, what you see is 100% of what there was - just this excerpt was saved for posterity by a former WSNS employee.


Comment posted in ON TV - "Premiere Night" (Opening, 1980) by Boomer933 on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 11:10pm CT

fuzzy.. is there anyway to get more out of this video? Did they have the transition from the commercial mode to the scrambled mode thing? it would be great to get that too from the premiere night..


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by Joey G on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 10:21pm CT

I was just listening to an old WLS aircheck from 1980 with a Playback commercial that also was advertising 10 TDK tapes for $30. Yikes, amazing how much cheaper cassettes got after the Walkman was introduced and after 8-tracks died.

The jingle here does seem weird.


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by Szake on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 9:21pm CT

Detroit4Chicago: From my research, I believe Playback went out of business in 1981.


Comment posted in WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Break #1, 1979) by FuzzyMemories on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 9:05pm CT

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@T.K.: "While I don't think it's exactly the same, the typeface of the Playback logo looks an awful lot like Playboy magazine, doesn't it?"

I was thinking the same thing.

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@ArmitageNLowell: "I think the cue card holder was a topless dancer."

@MotownPhilly: "what the hell is he looking at?!?"

My guess.... at a cue card, but the camera was probably positioned wrong, making him look off-kilter. Who was the technical director or stage manager who planned this out? WRITE 'EM UP!

I'm wondering if this store still in business.... ????


Comment posted in WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Break #1, 1979) by Pushbutton on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 5:16pm CT

If you tuned in to Channel 32 at any given time in 1971-75 you stood a 75% chance of seeing the Hydro-Jet commercial.


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by MotownPhilly on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 11:50am CT

what the hell is he looking at?!?


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