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Interesting Classic TV Clips on YouTube

TVWorldwide

TVWorldwide

I thought it would be useful to have a thread where users could post and discuss the most interesting classic TV clips found on YouTube.


A long clip of CNN2 (later Headline News) from 1982
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGkcyh-fh1U
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt844qRhAGw


The launch of CNN2
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I3L8XNqrCI
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f33r73kefZc


American Forces Vietnam Network, news, 1972
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ley0i7ugzMA
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bB1aBuZQb4
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4aX8UtrXE


From 1967, here's Germany's first color TV logo/intro (ARD network):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11XMda-7pMA
 
KTAR (now KPNX), Phoenix, Action News, 1978, long aircheck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_MbcFpXUeA

CNN Headline News moves to the CNN Center (last moments from the old facility, first moments from the new), 1987:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHuSw8AkDT8

Soviet TV News ("Vremya") from 1977:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiUGJMjDC2s

Communist-era Slovenian TV News (also from 1977):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tud9vyW5pXg

Slovenian TV news from 1999, reporting on President Clinton's visit to Slovenia -- note the American influences:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7idlmxcv1Tk
 
Tim-In-Houston said:
TVWorldwide said:
From WBAL in the late 1960s, here's a truly out-of-this-world newscast, featuring a revolving set... and a puppet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9rAKQGtHeA
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Before the advent of usable satellite images, weather radar and computer graphics, weather presenters had to do *something* to fill the 3-4 minutes of air time, so why not a puppet?

Interesting find though...i loved that set, too!
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The WBAL clip was up a few years back by another user "Cathy Jones" ( I remember the name ). Same person uploaded a clip of an entire 1961 WJZ newcast complete with commercials ( ESSO ) and a station ID.

Cathy deleted both clips as well as her account from what I read on You Tube because Cathy's employer ( she worked in radio in the Hagerstown, MD market ) gave her a choice. You Tube or your job?

She chose to remain employed.
 
Tim-In-Houston said:
TVWorldwide said:
From WBAL in the late 1960s, here's a truly out-of-this-world newscast, featuring a revolving set... and a puppet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9rAKQGtHeA
Click to expand...

Before the advent of usable satellite images, weather radar and computer graphics, weather presenters had to do *something* to fill the 3-4 minutes of air time, so why not a puppet?
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...WBAL stole the idea from WITI/6 Milwaukee, where meteorologists Ward Albert and Jeffrey Skilling had been joined by Jack DuBlon's Albert the Alleycat (the puppet host of WITI's morning cartoon show -- http://www.toontracker.com/milwaukee/dublon.htm) since the mid-'60s...
 
TVWorldwide said:
Here's a 1975 clip of ABC's AM America, the precursor to Good Morning America, with Stephanie Edwards, the Monty Python gang and Peter Jennings reporting on the imminent fall of Saigon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmS-DM8Jc0
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You have GOT to watch this clip! Then you will realize why AMAmerica was bagged and revamped into Good Morning America. Man, the set looks like a game show! That and GMA were, for years, under ABC entertainment division, rather than the news division.
 
TVWorldwide said:
Here's a 1975 clip of ABC's AM America, the precursor to Good Morning America, with Stephanie Edwards, the Monty Python gang and Peter Jennings reporting on the imminent fall of Saigon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmS-DM8Jc0
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...wasn't this just before the Pythons sued ABC for that network's editing sketches for broadcast on "Wide World of Entertainment" without the group's knowledge or consent?...
 
oldschooler1 said:
TVWorldwide said:
Here's a 1975 clip of ABC's AM America, the precursor to Good Morning America, with Stephanie Edwards, the Monty Python gang and Peter Jennings reporting on the imminent fall of Saigon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmS-DM8Jc0
Click to expand...

You have GOT to watch this clip! Then you will realize why AMAmerica was bagged and revamped into Good Morning America. Man, the set looks like a game show! That and GMA were, for years, under ABC entertainment division, rather than the news division.
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...actually, the program links on the clip don't look bad at all. It seems as if Jennings was slow in getting his segments underway, but I can't find any problem with Stephanie Edwards' performance or the set (which really isn't all that much different from the kind of set most local newscasts of the time had)...
 
Ultimajock said:
TVWorldwide said:
NBC's Plymouth News Caravan with John Cameron Swayze (includes a report by David Brinkley and sponsored "news" reports), 1950:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5680481900192555220
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...fascinating. Do we assume that Plymouth was a secondary sponsor of the program on those nights when Camel didn't run their ads?...
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Not sure about that but the program appears to be from 1954, as the commercial makes mention of the 1955 Plymouth..
 
Ultimajock said:
...WBAL stole the idea from WITI/6 Milwaukee, where meteorologists Ward Albert and Jeffrey Skilling had been joined by Jack DuBlon's Albert the Alleycat (the puppet host of WITI's morning cartoon show -- http://www.toontracker.com/milwaukee/dublon.htm) since the mid-'60s...
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Shouldn't that be Ward Allen & Tom Skilling? Jeffery was the infamous Enron executive and is Tom's brother. Ward Allen was the guy who was paired up with the puppet for most of the time, from what I remember.
 
Tim L said:
Not sure about that but the program appears to be from 1954, as the commercial makes mention of the 1955 Plymouth..
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I did a quick search of the lead story; the newscast appears to be from 1955 (April, I think). I got the "1950" straight from the description of the clip without thinking -- they apparently meant that it was from the 1950s.
 
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