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WTTW Channel 11 - Sunday Movie Eleven - "The Titfield Thunderbolt" (Opening, 1979)

Here's the opening for Sunday Movie Eleven on WTTW Channel 11 featuring the film "The Titfield Thunderbolt". They have a bit of a technical difficulty getting the film started.

Also includes a Kraft Foods sponsorship slide and a WTTW Station ID slide at the beginning.

All voiceovers by Marty Robinson.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, April 15th 1979.

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Viewer Comments

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but did WTTW use RCA TK-27 film chains/slide scanners? The way the slides came off in their calibration and quality seems to indicate so.

Also, one has to love seeing the period in which they're about to turn off the chroma (i.e. color burst) prior to showing a B&W movie in those days (even though this film itself was color).
Comment posted by W.B. on Monday, August 9th 2010 at 2:41pm.

Try saying the title of that film without laughing like Beavis and Butthead. ;)
Comment posted by ArmitageNLowell on Monday, August 9th 2010 at 8:02pm.

I recognize the music used in the opening title of Sunday Movie Eleven...it's a synthesized version of what would become the theme for WTTW's national production The Frugal Gourmet in the 1980s.
Comment posted by BobAnthony on Monday, August 9th 2010 at 8:12pm.

W.B., do you know what the purpose was of killing the color burst during black-and-white programs? Was it supposed to help reception in fringe areas (much like FM stations that choose to broadcast in mono)?
Comment posted by T.K. on Monday, August 9th 2010 at 8:27pm.

Hey, there's that Hexa-K logo again! :)
Comment posted by APM on Monday, August 9th 2010 at 9:47pm.

From what I could tell, if the burst weren't "killed off," the B&W source would appear greenish, pinkish, yellowish or whatever. Improvements in post-production technology since those days have made it possible to show B&W films (from tape sources, of course) while retaining the color burst. To such a point that at the time of Disneyland's 50th anniversary of 2005, ABC cameraman (and webmaster of a site dealing with vintage TV cameras) Chuck Pharis had to hook up a vintage RCA camera which was around at the time of the original 1955 opening of the park, to a system which had color burst, otherwise it would've been impossible to have a live shot of the action via that vintage B&W camera.
Comment posted by W.B. on Monday, August 9th 2010 at 9:48pm.

THAT'S where I've heard that before Bob Anthony! I was racking my brain for a couple of hours thinking of that one.
Comment posted by GalagaFleetCommander on Tuesday, August 10th 2010 at 5:58pm.

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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 former 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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Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by Detroit4Chicago on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 6:36pm CT

@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.

@Szake: "The eye line of the man in this commercial bothers me."

@FuzzyMemories: "He's not looking at me. I feel disrespected as a customer. ;-)"

@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?!?


Comment posted in Nelson Brothers - "Living Room Furniture With Credit Power" (Commercial, 1979) by T.K. on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 8:39pm CT

The spotlight gives me the subtle impression they're covering something up... scuff marks, dings, wine stains...


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by T.K. on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 8:35pm CT

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?


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