CHANNEL 11 FILM FESTIVAL OPEN

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Education

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• WPIX
• TV
• NEW
• YORK
• FILM
• FESTIVAL
• OPEN
• WNEW
• WWOR
• COMMERCIAL
• BREAKS
• 1980S

[EarlSnohomish]

Star roll call: Jane Russell, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, Sophia Loren, Rex Harrison, Charles Boyer, Joan Crawford, Anthony Quinn, Glenn Ford?, (can't tell - MM again?, Doris Day?, Kim Novak?, Jayne Mansfield?), Lee Marvin?, Gary Cooper, Peter Lorre, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, James Mason and David Niven.

Thanks for reposting, Tap!

[tapthatt2012]

i think jayne mansfield

[EarlSnohomish]

Yeah, the smile looks like Jayne's, Tap. Don't know if any of her films aired on WPIX, though (not that it means anything, of course).

BTW, Happy Easter and Passover to one and all!

[tapthatt2012]

same to you, bud.

[DerGunzWald]

@oldnyTV-OMG, I always thought the music was spooky!

[oldnytv5911]

Wow! I remember this like it was yesterday. The theme always kinda scared me as a kid. I thought I recalled also seeing this maybe in the mornings or afternoons when I would be home sick from school like in the early to mid 70's? One movie I distinctly remember watching of the FF was 1944's "The Lodger".

[shoresean1237]

Wow, this takes me back. I wish you also had the outro and the bumpers from this same show. It was a bit like the channel was saying : We know these are the same films we play almost all the time, so we'll put some effort into the intro to make up for it.

[wmbrown6]

@konga5 - I'd say the animated hand intro for "Chiller" would've been made at the same time (1970) as the "Channel 11 Film Festival" open; both were perhaps the last film-based opens and bumpers for WPIX movie shows. Where it was made, I can't say.

[castillianwagon500]

Thanks so much for putting this up. What's the name of the music ? It's great ! I know it's Cubin.

[konga5]

@wmbrown6; PLEASE HELP! Do you know the origin of the Chiller Theater animated hand intro? You seem to have great knowledge of WPIX! I'm impressed. Thank you!

[oldschoolbx1970]

I remember this. Thanks for posting.

[candrew14]

WPIX used this intro well into the 1980's for late night movies - I believe 2am

[wmbrown6]

There was also a bumper which consisted of the opening squares plus the segment of: Gary Cooper, Peter Lorre, Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, James Mason, and David Niven, with the title layout being the last image before the brief fade-out.

[wmbrown6]

The very first film shown under the "Channel 11 Film Festival" banner, on Oct. 5, 1970, was actually the 1933 Mae West/Cary Grant pic "I'm No Angel." The "Film Festival" title may well have been inspired by the occasional theme weeks of West films which were aired in mid-1969 and again in early or mid-1970 under the banner of "The Mae West Film Festival."