I feel your pain. In a recent batch of VHS tapes I got from Southwest VA, there's a tape of a couple movies recorded from WDBJ and WSLS around 1983... the commercials are cut out. Who knows what could have been on there. All I have of the WSLS is an on-screen ID!
You would REALLY hate my parents. When they taped stuff for me before I was old enough to figure out how to do it myself, they seldom saved commercials and were so bad at unpausing that beginnings of shows got cut off regularly.
The particular "Late Show" slide used here was an alternate, with the color scheme same as the bumper which had the title and the words "Continues after these messages and station identification."
@wmbrown6 I have a complete "Late Show" broadcast that shows that slide in the middle of a commercial break, with the one seen here shown right before the breaks start. Sort of funny it mentions "station identification" as if they couldn't have just put that on the slide.
@eyeh8nbc - The "station identification" wording may have had something to do with when those slides were first created - which was in 1973. (It was not long afterwards that network shows ceased prefacing their break notices with the "...following station identification" language.)
As for this slide with the large logo: The other color scheme (albeit faded) can be seen on:
@wmbrown6 What really strikes me was the title slide itself there. It's different from the ones I remembered as used during "Late Show" and the other WCBS umbrellas. The marquee "lights" took over near the entire screen, as opposed to this "compact" marquee. Also, don't ever recall seeing B&W films on "Late Show", with the chroma-key effect.
@DanZero77 - This particular marquee appeared to be used for short titles like this. (See 'KLXT77's' video of 1978 clips from WCBS up to sign-off time, this marquee was also used for "Enchanted Island.") The "entire screen" marquee may've been for longer titles.
@wmbrown6 THANKS for the tip! That video had to be one of the most amazing, and nearly complete New York blocks I have ever seen. Nice to see the shorter marquee on that one again, with a bonus V/O and a new WCBS Celebrates promo, thanks for posting the link to the music bed used on that too!
Have you posted the complete copy of the original Crazy Eddie Christmas in August ("Its August the sun is glaring the streets are sweltering ...")
I can't find it.
cgmoog 7 months ago
I feel your pain. In a recent batch of VHS tapes I got from Southwest VA, there's a tape of a couple movies recorded from WDBJ and WSLS around 1983... the commercials are cut out. Who knows what could have been on there. All I have of the WSLS is an on-screen ID!
ntropolis 10 months ago
You would REALLY hate my parents. When they taped stuff for me before I was old enough to figure out how to do it myself, they seldom saved commercials and were so bad at unpausing that beginnings of shows got cut off regularly.
Attmay 1 year ago
Those are some amazing comments here. Thanks!
gli7utubeo 1 year ago
Based on the Crazy Eddie ad, this appears to have been transmitted late Aug. 25/early Aug. 26, 1977.
wmbrown6 1 year ago
@wmbrown6 Do you have a copy of the TV listings that show when this movie was ran, or do you just have a really good memory?
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
@eyeh8nbc - Checked from capsuled New York Times TV listings as cached at Google News Archive.
wmbrown6 1 year ago
@eyeh8nbc Seems he DID purchase a TV Guide that week. Now I will admit looking after them as well as VHS tapes nowadays.
JesseL85719 3 months ago
The particular "Late Show" slide used here was an alternate, with the color scheme same as the bumper which had the title and the words "Continues after these messages and station identification."
wmbrown6 1 year ago
@wmbrown6 I have a complete "Late Show" broadcast that shows that slide in the middle of a commercial break, with the one seen here shown right before the breaks start. Sort of funny it mentions "station identification" as if they couldn't have just put that on the slide.
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
@eyeh8nbc - The "station identification" wording may have had something to do with when those slides were first created - which was in 1973. (It was not long afterwards that network shows ceased prefacing their break notices with the "...following station identification" language.)
As for this slide with the large logo: The other color scheme (albeit faded) can be seen on:
watch?v=dO__roL4ssw
wmbrown6 1 year ago
@eyeh8nbc Any chances we might see some of that? This is amazing enough here, but I'd love to get some more Late Show
DanZero77 10 months ago
@wmbrown6 What really strikes me was the title slide itself there. It's different from the ones I remembered as used during "Late Show" and the other WCBS umbrellas. The marquee "lights" took over near the entire screen, as opposed to this "compact" marquee. Also, don't ever recall seeing B&W films on "Late Show", with the chroma-key effect.
DanZero77 1 year ago
@DanZero77 - This particular marquee appeared to be used for short titles like this. (See 'KLXT77's' video of 1978 clips from WCBS up to sign-off time, this marquee was also used for "Enchanted Island.") The "entire screen" marquee may've been for longer titles.
wmbrown6 1 year ago
@wmbrown6 THANKS for the tip! That video had to be one of the most amazing, and nearly complete New York blocks I have ever seen. Nice to see the shorter marquee on that one again, with a bonus V/O and a new WCBS Celebrates promo, thanks for posting the link to the music bed used on that too!
DanZero77 1 year ago