Welcome To The Museum of Classic Chicago Television A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (MCCTv) is an online museum designed for the age of the Internet.
Our Mission: To further the acquisition, preservation, exhibition, education, and nostalgic enjoyment of Classic Chicago Television broadcasts.
Check out the Screening Room for over 3000 classic clips and commercials spanning roughly the past 40 years. You can also learn about the history of Chicago TV as well as sharing memories with others by visiting our forums and posting comments.
We reached our goal! Thanks to the 23 people (or so) that donated for this specific fundraiser. (that works out to be only $21 per person averaged out - even though some donated 5 times that - see, it doesn't taken much if everyone can chip in something!)
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) we just got in about 14 more 2" reels to transfer,... so we're going to need, uh...significantly more money. (In case you don't know, 2" Quad videotape is very expensive to transfer - the only option is sending it out to someone who specializes in it)
If anyone was planning on donating but hasn't yet, please still do. We are going to need it, that's for sure!
As you know, this museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit which relies soley on donations. Funds have dwindled lately, and we need about $500 for expenses related to transferring a number of 2" quad videotapes containing some rare and old WCIU-TV programming, such as the Kiddie-A-Go-Go clip from 1969 you saw recently.
If everyone that visited this site daily (based on the number of hits) donated a dollar, we would reach our goal. I know this is not realistic, but I am asking those of you who CAN donate something, to please do, to the best of your financial ability. Since this is a specifc fundraiser, we are using ChipIn.com to keep track of progress toward our goal. Please click on the ChipIn! button on the widget on the main page in order to donate via PayPal through ChipIn.com (no personal information is released to ChipIn other than the amount you donate)
To those of you who CAN afford more, let me take a page from NPR's pledge drives - is FuzzyMemories worth a dollar a day to you? Then how about considering making a $365 donation? Just a thought. (only if you can afford it)
Thank you for the help. More money = more tapes and more memories we are able to save and enjoy. :-)
That clip of k.d. lang from "Soundstage" reminded me of something. For awhile (circa 1993, when this clip is from), Soundstage and VH-1 had a joint agreement where I believe Soundstage would should the concert and then later that night VH-1 would repeat it or possibly present an edited version of the same show. (I have part of the VH-1 version on a tape somewhere.)
I also seem to remember a pledge break on WTTW during the airing and there had been a Gloria Estefan show on earlier that night and the host was trying to see whose fans called in more with pledges. You could get whatever Gloria Estefan's album was or lang's album "Ingenue" if you pledged enough money. I think k.d. lang won. I would love to see that episode again, I wish it was on DVD. I'd also like to see the pledge break.
@4thtroika, I remember watching the 'Night Strangler' a long time ago. It was part of the Kolchak series (an early '70s version of the X-Files). I have also seen Richard Anderson in a movie called 'Curse of the Faceless Man' on Svengoolie (the Rich Koz version). It's interesting to see him in roles before the bionic shows. His last show, I believe was Cover-Up in 1984-85, in which a once-promising Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally killed himself.
Wow, this was the night they first showed Live and Let Die, huh? I know I saw it, but I have seen that movie on ABC so many times I forgot when it first started on TV. I'm so looking forward to getting both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman on DVD (in the US, not the UK)
The Beatles footage was from "A Hard Day's Night", though in the movie they were playing "And I Love Her". Also one of my favorite tunes; The Beatles could really do some gorgeous stuff.
