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[TVTV Goes to the Superbowl raw: Bob Wussler]
00:00 This tape begins with a blue screen. 00:23 Cut to a shot of Wussler who begins to talk about his technique in changing the television system while remaining under the radar and avoiding...
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[TVTV Goes to the Superbowl raw: Super Night at the SuperBowl]
00:00 This tape begins with a blue screen. 00:25 Videomaker Bart Friedman interviews a waitress about the food being served at the event. After a brief conversation, Friedman and fellow videomaker Elon...
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[TVTV Goes to the Superbowl: selects from Wussler and Super Night at the...
00:00 CBS production meeting. Bob Wussler goes over the logistics of the SuperBowl X production with the crew. He also announces the roster for a tag football game that will take place between the CBS...
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H.M. 5 at the Super Bowl Mansion
00:00 This tape begins with static. 00:36 From inside a car, Blumberg gathers footage of the Miami coastline on the way to the beach. 02:12 Blumberg and Aaron arrive at the beach. Blumberg gathers...
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Time Out, episode 150
00:00 Advertisements on WTTW, as well as station identification, before Time Out! begins. 01:03 The Time Out intro, the panel and the segments for the show are introduced. This is followed by a...
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TVTV Goes To The Superbowl
0:00 Black. 0:36 Start of program. Miami, Florida, Jan 18, 1976. A Pittsburgh Steelers player talks about the problem with Super Bowl Sunday. “That’s what we need – some more churchgoin’. We’re gonna...
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[Wrigley Field B-roll]
01:00 Footage begins. Camera pans around Wrigley field, capturing the ivy, the bleachers, the scoreboard, and fans at a baseball game. Ambient sounds of the crowd cheering. A man buys a Budweiser that...
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[Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #42]
00:00 Veeck talking about leprosy and the public health/quarantine procedures of the past: “Old wives tales are probably stronger than common sense.” He begins to discuss the psychological affect of...
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Chicago boxing character Johnny Lira
Today, we look back at Johnny Lira: boxer, “man about town… suave, debonair, and character extraordinaire.” In 1993, Doug Sawyer and Ben Joravsky interviewed Lira at the gym at Fuller Park at 45th and...
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Bill Murray and Christopher Guest at Super Bowl IX 1/2
Before covering 1976′s Super Bowl X, TVTV experimented with some comedy journalism by covering the pickup game between the CBS Superbowl Broadcast team. The game featured hall of famer Johnny Unitas...
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Rockin’ Randy
00:07 Title menu. 00:10 Production credit: “Hebrew Inc. Presents.” 00:22 Open to Randy Ricci lighting a cigarette, and an announcer from ACW introducing a wrestler. 00:35 Ricci narrating montage...
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[Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #40]
00:00 Bill Veeck sits at home having a conversation about politics. He says he was against the Vietnam War and even more against Nixon. Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Douglas were his heroes, and he felt...
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[Harry Caray moves to Cubs]
0:00 From the Ambassador Hotel, Jack Brickhouse announces that Harry Caray will be the next Cubs announcer. 1:00 Caray is interviewed by Al Lerner in the WLS studio, saying that the main reason he’s...
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Spring training in the rain
Today, we take you to Florida 1978, where Bill Veeck battled the rain to keep the White Sox working out during spring training. The video also includes Veeck’s reflections on spring training from 1985,...
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[Bears mania in Chicago 1986]
00:00 Video cuts in during the middle of a news report about the Chicago Bears. Mayor Washington attends a rally at Daley Plaza and announces that, temporarily, the plaza will be renamed Bears Plaza....
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100 years of Wrigley Field
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Wrigley Field, iconic home of the Chicago Cubs. It was also the home of two football teams—the Chicago Bears (1921-1970) and the Chicago Cardinals (1931-1939)—and...
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More Than A Game
0:22 Opening credits and then shot of downtown Chicago with voice overs about basketball, “you have the NBA All-Star game out here every day.” 1:31 Zoom in on men of various ages playing basketball....
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Is soccer un-American?
Today, tens of thousands of Americans filled up places like Soldier Field in Chicago to watch the USA team in a World Cup Soccer game (futbol match). It wasn’t always like that. Until the 1980s, soccer...
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Mr. Cubs’ Last Stand
On February 16, 1986, the Cubs and Mets revived the 1969 season to play an exhibition series in Arizona. Ernie Banks was 54. This video is probably Banks’ last hit and last putout in any game. It’s an...
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[Jonathan and Bruce Sutter]
0:01 A boy named Johnny hits a couple of pitches thrown by Bruce Sutter, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. 1:37 Johnny successfully hits the pitch, runs the field, and the small audience in the stadium...
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