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TAPE TVH103 DISCS7 SPOTS · 7 WATCHABLE
Donated by Trent Von Holten
Disc B · 2000
Watch disc B in full at the Internet Archive
No commercials survive on this disc.
Disc C · 2000
Donated by Trent Von Holten; third and last disc of tape TVH10. WYCC-TV 20 Chicago: the end of the travel documentary 'Sophisticated Ladies: Charleston & Savannah', a City Colleges of Chicago spot, the station sign-off, color bars and blank tape.
Watch disc C in full at the Internet Archive
Program log
- 0:00:00 'Sophisticated Ladies: Charleston & Savannah' (continued)
- 0:35:32 PBS ident and City Colleges of Chicago spot
- 0:36:34 WYCC sign-off, color bars, blank tape
The breaks, in airing order
Break 1
| Time | Spot | Len |
|---|---|---|
| 0:35:36 | PBS network ID after show credits/GPTV card (window-and-planet morph into PBS head logo, "It's PBS" VO), 4.6 s; fades to black at 2141.57 — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :05 |
| 0:35:41 | City Colleges of Chicago - 'Enhance Your Future!' - Dial C-O-L-L-E-G-E (773) 265-5343 (1997)An institutional spot for the City Colleges of Chicago: the Chicago skyline, a biotechnology lab at Truman College and a roll call of campuses (Daley, Truman, Wright, Malcolm X, Harold Washington, Olive Harvey and Kennedy-King). It ends on "Dial C-O-L-L-E-G-E," (773) 265-5343, www.ccc.edu and "Enhance your future!" | :52 |
| 0:36:34 | WYCC-TV 20 Chicago sign-off station ID, 21.6 s ("We hope you've enjoyed our telecast... WYCC TV 20 is owned and operated by the City Colleges of Chicago... your destination station"); station ID so tag, though over 10 s; complete; no library match — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :22 |
| 0:36:57 | WYCC-TV CH20 SMPTE color bars after sign-off, silent (-54 dB hum); locks from rolling at ~2218.0 — skip, not uploaded | :37 |
| 0:37:34 | dead black, no sync (drifting head-switch noise line), silent, to end of disc; blank tape / end of recording — skip, not uploaded | :21 |
Disc A · Apr 2000
Donated by Trent Von Holten; first disc of tape TVH10. AMC (American Movie Classics), April 2000: the sci-fi film 'Fiend Without a Face' (1958), AMC's break (Princess Cruises, AMC promos), and the start of 'The Big Steal' (1949) on AMC's Hollywood Classics.
Watch disc A in full at the Internet Archive
Program log
- 0:00:00 'Fiend Without a Face' (1958)
- 1:11:44 AMC break: Princess Cruises, promos and AMC EFX
- 1:22:00 'Hollywood Classics' host and 'The Big Steal' (1949) to the disc end
The breaks, in airing order
Break 1
| Time | Spot | Len |
|---|---|---|
| 1:11:43 | Princess Cruises sponsor billboard on AMC, "The preceding was brought to you by Princess Cruises. Experience grand class cruising only with Princess" (teal logo card, 7.2 s) — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :07 |
| 1:11:50 | Princess Cruises - 'Far to the North There Lives a Beautiful Princess' - Alaska - 2000 TV Commercial"Far to the north, there lives a beautiful princess. Hers is a world called Princess Grand Class Cruises. For a long time now, she's been the keeper of Alaska's many secrets. And now, she'll whisper them to you." Seven-day Alaska cruises from $599; call your travel agent or 1-800-PRINCESS for a free Alaska planning kit and video. | :30 |
| 1:12:20 | AMC American Movie Classics ID sting (green swoosh logo), 9.8 s — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :10 |
| 1:12:30 | AMC 'Tonight' Lineup - The Big Steal, AMC EFX Cinema Secrets, Fiend Without a Face (2000)AMC's "Tonight on AMC" slate: Robert Mitchum chases a payroll thief through Mexico in Don Siegel's thriller The Big Steal; then AMC EFX, with the original series Cinema Secrets about how filmmakers make "the impossible possible" and the effects feature Fiend Without a Face. "That's all tonight on AMC." | :30 |
| 1:13:00 | AMC 'NYUK' Promo - Leslie Nielsen and the New York University of Knucklehead (2000)A spoof promo in which Leslie Nielsen (named on an on-screen card) says, "There is still a place on television that cares about quality educational programming. I am Leslie Nielsen and I represent the New York University of Knucklehead," promising education in "writing, the fine arts, foreign languages, physics, advanced physics." NYUK airs Saturday and Sunday mornings at 8 on AMC, with a Three Stooges clip at the tail. | :30 |
| 1:13:30 | AMC Saturday Classic Promo - Sleuth (1972) - Olivier's Fake Mustache (2000)AMC's promo for Sleuth (1972): in 1972 Laurence Olivier arrived on the set "in a panic, claiming he could only act in disguise and begging his director to let him wear a fake mustache," and the spot asks whether the phony stache helped in his battle of wits with Michael Caine. "Sleuth, an AMC Saturday classic. This week at 6:05 p.m. Eastern." | :35 |
| 1:14:05 | 5:41 mini-documentary (show content), tune-in card at its end — AMC Backstory "The Getaway" (1972) long-form 5 min 41 s doc piece, tune-in lower-third "Fri May 5th 8:00 pm ET" + end card; LONG - may be show-like, parent decide — skip, not uploaded | :341 |
| 1:19:47 | AMC "Next: The Big Steal" bumper with Mitchum/Greer stills (9.9 s) — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :10 |
| 1:19:57 | AMC Sunday Romance Classics Promo - Jack & Sarah and Everyday Elegance - Sunday 3 PM (2000)"Romance Classics invites you to turn off the phone, put up your feet and refresh with a generous sample of Sunday Romance Classics on AMC." This Sunday: the romantic comedy Jack and Sarah, followed by the lifestyle series Everyday Elegance, "this week at 3 p.m. Eastern." | :30 |
| 1:20:27 | AMC William Holden birthday tribute, Monday (9.5 s) — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :10 |
| 1:20:37 | AMC American Movie Classics ID sting (film-strip diamond logo), 7 s — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :07 |
| 1:20:44 | AMC 'Tonight' Lineup - Dietrich: Shadow and Light, Stage Fright, Wake of the Red Witch (2000)AMC's "Tonight on AMC" slate: the original documentary Shadow and Light profiles Marlene Dietrich on Hollywood Reel-to-Reel; then Dietrich co-stars with Jane Wyman in Alfred Hitchcock's whodunit Stage Fright; and John Wayne plays a hell-raising sea captain hunting pearls in Wake of the Red Witch. | :30 |
| 1:21:14 | Gateway sponsor billboard on AMC, "The following is being brought to you by Gateway Computers. Gateway speaks to 50,000 people a day" (blue 1-800-Gateway card, 7.2 s) — ID / bumper, not uploaded | :07 |
| 1:21:21 | black + silent hole 30.03 s right after the Gateway billboard (no picture, no audio; spot absent or blanked) — skip, not uploaded | :30 |