WNET SIGN OFF PLUS 1983

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Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• WNET
• PBS
• SIGN
• OFF
• CINEMA
• 13
• OPEN
• GRAPHICS

[MSTS1]

Cool.. always like the old slides from the mid-80s back through the 70s, and earlier..

[tapthatt2012]

@MSTS1 i might put all these opens together and play them before i watrch an old movie! (which i've been doin alot of lately)

[arejayseeottawa]

Today, to support WNET, you would more likely make a donation via the station's website!

[APyleOfVinyl]

@tapthatt2012 This is really cool! Do you have any movie promos from 1986-1988? My dad has a few tapes from that era. I wonder if you have some more, especially looking for an unedited copy of the MOVIES! MOVIES! MOVIES! promo from 1987 with a cheesy computer animation with Carmen Miranda, Groucho Marx, and other stars.

[RoyKnable]

You have to love the schizophrenic slides toward the end. They say WNET Newark NJ but show scenes from other places. Since when does Newark look like midtown Manhattan or some bucolic farm?

[wmbrown6]

Doesn't it look from the way the slides were shown, that Channel 13 may have had RCA TK-27 film chains?

[ShiksaWithChutzpah1]

Ah good ol' WNET and Cinema Thirteen. How I loved thee as a child, and still do. I especially liked the still photo promo of each movie shown with the Cinema Thirteen logo on it. Thanks so much for uploading! :)

[wmbrown6]

A few other things: a) "A Farewell to Arms" was for many years (until a few years before this aircheck) a staple of WABC-TV, and was shown on occasion on "The 4:30 Movie"; and b) Whatever happened to the announcer on duty that night, Shep O'Neal (other than seeing him in an online transcript of something relating to Martin Luther King)?

[wmbrown6]

The use of the name "Cinema Thirteen" dated back to at least 1960 when it was still commercial station WNTA-TV. Alas, the channel number in those days was in numeral form, instead of spelled out, on the title.