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Chatter's World - "Chatter's Forecast" (1960)
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Here's an installment of a syndicated series of shorts called Chatter's World that aired on WBKB Channel 7 weekday mornings in 1960.
Chicago historian Steve Jajkowski adds, "Chatter's World was local - it was created and produced by Sam Ventura and Ronny Born (who played "Orville" on Shock Theatre). Ronny Born also performed the voice of Chatter. Filmed at WBKB, roughly a season's worth, then sold i...
WGN Channel 9 - Saturday Morning Movie - "The Bowery Boys in Jail Busters" (Opening & Break, 1980)
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Here's the opening and pre-movie break for the Saturday Morning Movie presentation of The Bowery Boys in Jail Busters on WGN Channel 9. Includes:
WGN Television 9 "Twilight" Station ID Slide (voiceover by Len Johnson)
Opening to the Saturday Morning Movie with the Sun & Filmstrips motif (voiceover by Len Johnson) - theme music is "Cop...
WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter5 At 10pm (Promo, 1977)
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Here is a two-minute, awesomely overdone promo (in that 70s way) for WMAQ Channel 5's NewsCenter5 At 10pm, starting off with a space motif and a laser-style lightning bolt traveling around the world and then back to Chicago ("From the stars to the planets, from Chicago to the ends of the earth" - voiceover by Brad Crandall), to promote "a new age of electronic journalism" (a reference to the adoption of video-based ENG) and the resources of NBC News. Some of the clips (of news events within ...
WBBM Channel 2 - The 20th Annual Chicago Emmy Awards (Part 1, 1978)
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This is a tremendous find - not only do we have another (mostly) complete Chicago Emmy Awards telecast - this one from the 70s - as part of the 20th Anniversary they decided to have a retrospective of the local TV stations! So we get to see some footage, slides and pictures, which apparently at this point in 1978 were not yet thrown out or forgotten by the TV stations. (Some of the clips or bu...
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Here's Part 2 of a Channel 2 News Special Report, "Blizzard '79: Public Questions, City Answers," a call-in show hosted by Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson on WBBM Channel 2, with Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Chairman James McDonough, Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Francis Degnan, Fire Commissioner Richard Albrecht, and Police Superintendent James O'Grady taking questions from irate Chicagoans. Also featuring Steve Shepard at the 6200 block of South Archer in Southwest Chicago,...
WMAQ Channel 5 - News (Opening, 1983)
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Here's the opening few minutes of the Channel 5 News on WMAQ Channel 5, which aired immediately following the airing of the Kennedy mini-series for that night (and on WLS, The Day After telefilm) Includes:
WMAQ-TV Chicago Station ID Slide & PSA Voiceover Promo (by Jim Hill)
Newscast oddly begins with no opening sequence (perhaps due to Kennedy running long?) and then anchor Deborah Norville introduces the top story: Mayor Harold Washington c...
WFLD Channel 32 - The Honeymooners - "A Matter of Life and Death" (Commercial Break #1, 1977)
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Here's the first commercial break from the airing of The Honeymooners episode "A Matter of Life and Death" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes: WBBM Channel 2 - Fright Night (Opening, 1971-72)
Views: 1633 Here's the opening sequence for WBBM Channel 2's stab at a horror movie showcase, Fright Night.
The Honeymooners bumper slide (with colorized line drawing based on famed 1955 photo of three of show's stars inside a GMC "Old Look" bus, and Kaiser-era 32 logo) (NOTE: This same drawing would be used for a later bumper from after Field's own logo style took over, as seen on
This opening was created by Jim Talbot.
Jim recalls:
"I had designed and animated the wbbm station break for Hal Biard, who was head of promotion for channel 2. He liked it and asked me to do something for their fright night late night movie.
I was a one man operation back then (still am) working from the back porch of an editing compan...
WBBM Channel 2 - The CBS Wednesday Night Movies - "The Concrete Cowboys" (Opening & Break, 1979)
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Here's the opening moments of The CBS Wednesday Night Movies presentation of the made-for-TV movie "The Concrete Cowboys" (starring Jerry Reed and a pre-Magnum, P.I. Tom Selleck, and featuring Morgan Fairchild, Claude Akins, Ray Stevens and Barbara Mandrell) on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:
"Project Learning" station ID slide (voiceover by Bob Carrington) followed by the CBS "bong" and a partial...