WABC-TV 7 - Saturday Night Movie - WCBS-TV 2 - Late Show

NYC - WABC-TV 7 - Saturday Night Movie - WCBS-TV 2 - Late Show.
Animation and Slides, etc. from 1987

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Film & Animation

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• 1987
• 1980's
• Television

[humbleradio]

Cool! Really is the best movie intro I've ever seen. Any idea who the cameraman is? He looks geniune and not an actor, though hard to tell of course.

[MSTS1]

I wouldn't know who he is, but I doubt if they hired an actor to be the cameraman that, 1: he would be able to operate the spinner handles very well, and 2: that the actor would wear glasses.

This guy wears glasses and probably was a cinematographer for real, I'd think.

[MSTS1]

I saw (most of) a film yesterday on cable called "The Last Mogul" (2005) about MCA-Universal's Lew Wasserman. At the point in the timeline where they reach the companys' involvement in television ('60s-'70s), they ran a variation of the above WABC-7 Cameraman/Zooming-7s piece. The movie narration plays over it, but could be worth checking out for fans of this clip.

And interestingly, they ran this film the same day of the Universal City fire (6/1/08)..

[wmbrown6]

Thank you, thank you, thank you - for confirming the proper position of the audio/video sync of WABC's opening animations for their movies, as on most of their opens ("The 4:30 Movie" pre-1980, "Sunday Night Movie") the audio was moved about a second ahead, therefore messing with the timing. The bumpers were the key, now the close proves it. Again, many thanks.

[MSTS1]

wmbrown6:

I wonder since this was originally produced on film and may have been run as-film through a film chain, if they left space before sound to allow for film-breaking and splicing over a long time use.. Just an idea...

[wmbrown6]

@MSTS1 - When ads were produced on film, there was always reserved a blank second or more of no sound for that very purpose of film splicing. (Apparently up to 36 frames or 1.5 seconds, given the 26-to-28 frame differential between picture and sound in 16mm film - varying according to whether optical or magnetic sound was used - and 20 frames for 35mm film.) I also studied the position of certain animations in this opening, and the bumpers in question.

[MSTS1]

@wmbrown6 - Well, for whatever reason they delayed audio start on their bumpers (and I figure it was technically related and not artistic), it did end up making them stand out as different. I like them that way- kind of dramatic at the opening..

[BlackManticore]

Tired of all the CUSTOM youtubers out there changing the past to their liking. Customize your life...not my memories.

[sd04276]

these are great thanks so much

[monkeeman1966]

I recorded this audio off of channel 7 years ago. This was the ABC night of the week movie theme that channel 7 used also. Good to see it again.

Good job!

[jpwjr1199]

I know this is random, but I seem to remember during either the Late Show or Late Late Show movies, CBS used to have an instrumental track of one section of the song "Angry Young Man"? Maybe, I'm remembering wrong, but that seems to stick out in my mind for some reason

[humbleradio]

@FutureNewsAnchor That may be it. Yes, they are informative to a point. But the angle they present, everything as kitch or something to made fun of, doesn't show an accurate or respectful picture really. It's like if I described Kurt Cobain with various pop-ups and semi celeb comments thus: "Kurt was ... "Wild," "Awesome!" "He Sang, He danced" "Now He's Dead!" "Ouch!" "Next up...P Diddy!" Would that describe an accurate presentation of Kurt Cobain? Very doubtful. Same thing here.

[FutureNewsAnchor]

@humbleradio You mean the "I Love The..." series on VH1. I like those programs. They give me a history lesson about everything that went on in pop culture before I was born.

[a1cjlock]

Dude thinks she's dinner! lol

[theschizoidman]

Actually, he'd be a camera operator (man, in those days). The DP or AC would be next to him on the crane and would not be operating the equipment.

Ridiculous huh? That's the union. For Directors it's worse. they can' t even touch the camera.

[theschizoidman]

Oh really?

Humble is right. Of course they can be ruined. Anything can be ruined.

If I took a crap on your dining room table during dinner, wouldn't that ruin your appetite? Only if you let it?

Pluuuleeeez.

You're saying, only if you let it.

[sixsixxsixxxx]

why should they ruin your memories? they're yours and can't be touched or diminished by anyone or anything unless you let them