LATE GREAT 2: GROOVIE 9

[@troyc4250]

Wow. The days when my grandparents where alive. It was a precious time.

[@CarlosChristian-n8t]

I remember watching all these movie show classics !

[@CarlosChristian-n8t]

I remember watching this on Channel 9 many years ago !

[@the430movie]

Omg! I miss this time! No lunatics like we have today! Or people complaining about what they don't have, or were denied, because of some BS they scam... Back during these days kiddies, we had 1 or 2 tv's, vcr's were a fairly new thing, and a simple stereo... I can only speak for NY and Eastern NJ, as well as Conn, there was only channel 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 on VHF, channel 21, 25, 31, 41, 47, and sometimes 68 on UHF... Tv was 525 lines... That's it! We watched tv, and maybe rented a movie or 2, but we also went outside and played and exercised! Times were different back then! Oh, and going to the movie theater was big in those days! Movies were $1.25~$1.50 depending where you went...

[@WOLF10307]

+the430movie I remember those times.They were the best!

[@jomfrulysetsfall2119]

U forgot 17 26 29 "50 somtimes" depending on the signal and 52 same as 26

[@the430movie]

@@jomfrulysetsfall2119 rarely, with some ghosting. But, yeah you are right. We would call UHF channels, Spanish channels at times... I do remember 17 and 50 at times, but again, rarely. Just going with the sure fire ones though at times ghosty and often grainy. Depending where you lived.

[@spewey111]

What memories this montage brings back! I was born in 1966, so these were formative years for sure. I will say though, there is something slighly dark and a little unsettling about the combination graphics and music. Hard to put my finger on. But it's like how (to me) the Chiller Theatre 6-fingered hand is scarier than anything today, in part because it's grainy, and jumpy, and so low-tech. But I love it all!

[@David-dz3ig]

yeah I know what you mean Shawn :)

[@darlenegoodwin6467]

shawn p I am a 1966 girl myself

[@BenjaminGessel]

😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍 1978 guy here. I identify mainly with the 80's, but I LOVE the 70's, esp. regarding movies, tv and music... 😊😊👍👍👍

[@deantheodosiou2886]

Speaking as someone also born in '66, I couldn't agree with you more. Especially about the Chiller hand, which freaked me out so much as a kid that even today I can't watch it without at first feeling momentarily uneasy.

[@ajg2558]

Make Television Great Again!

[@danawadd]

The first 16 or so years of my life... in these fond memories... thank you...

[@DanZero77]

An EXCELLENT look back at the movie presentations and umbrellas that shaped my childhood. Thanks Tap!

[@MVR326]

Excellent .. I remember this. weekdays Chanel 9 at 1:00pm.

[@68lincoln]

WOW! Great job. I remember some of these from the 1970s. Thanks for the nice memories. Those were great years for local TV stations. They were a nice alternate if you didn't want to watch network TV. Of course it's all gone now. All TV broadcasting has changed horribly.

[@the430movie]

Greatest time to be a kid in America! Sure there were problems, but not like today. Back then, it was about family! You felt a sense of certainty, a sense like we were really going some where! Going to the movies was great!

[@shoresean1237]

Since all these stations were playing the same set of films endlessly and forever (WPIX used to spam 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie') these intros were all about presentation and getting you to watch that same movie yet again - and they did it so well!

[@wmbrown6]

Another point: This classic "Movie 9" open may have been created around late 1972, as the daily afternoon showcase bearing that title debuted on January 1, 1973 [first film shown that New Year's: "Cobra Woman" (1944)]. The title itself dated to at least 1969, initially aired on weekends only, during the era when WOR branded itself as "New York 9." The production techniques for this open - shot on videotape, dissolving between images - were later used for the "Fright Night" open.

[@eldrow]

Serious blast from the past!! Love it!!

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

Probably the BEST video on KZbin!!!

[@nastynorm13]

I miss Million Dollar Movie on CH9.

[@DKTCHIKC]

nastynorm13 I miss the 4 O’CLOCK MOVIE. Especially the theme ❤️❤️❤️

[@tapthatt2012]

"Hi!" by Otto Cesana and his Orchestra

[@bklyndice]

tv back in the day was much better than today,with all these reality shows,infomercials and hsn channels.miss it

[@cablucky8945]

I miss the good ole days movies flash back I wish that they can bring it back to TV late Movies on all the channels.

[@edreid7872]

Remember when the good old-fashioned late movies showed the classics...now you have to pay for tcm to watch them now...

[@shawnmalone9711]

Or youtube!

[@edreid7872]

Yet to have seen Gone with the wind on KZbin dude.....

[@johnetheridge5833]

Ahhhh my childhood memories of the network movie bumpers

[@jeffsielski5385]

What a time in history!!! Thank you for posting!!!!

[@wmbrown6]

The tune was an LP track called "Hi!" by Otto Cesana and his Orchestra from 1958, an instrumental recasting of an unreleased (at the time) Frank Sinatra song called "Here Goes." As to who was with Cary Grant, that was his then-wife Betsy Drake, adapted from a still from their 1952 film "Room for One More" (which was retitled "The Easy Way" for TV, and was shown in the first few years of "Movie 9" in the mid-1970's).

[@billslocum9819]

"Here Goes" finally got released in 1990 as a bonus track of the 3-disc "The Capitol Years" collection. It's really one of Sinatra's hidden gems.

[@johnkun77]

I don't want to sound biased, but local NY TV was the best.

[@wmbrown6]

What I'm curious about is, which programming exec at WOR-TV decided "Hi!" would be a great opening theme for "Movie 9" (which indeed it was/is, what with a tempo and riff reminiscent of "Hooray for Hollywood"). We know the name of Lawrence Casey who was responsible for the memorable "Fright Night" opening montage produced in 1973, and from later in the 1970's Chris Steinbrunner who selected the titles for that same venue.

[@wmbrown6]

I also thought the "clink" heard at certain spots reminded me of the sound of the mic activation for V/O's on WOR-TV in the period up to 1981.

[@fscap811]

i'd be happy just to re-live 1979

[@wmbrown6]

From what I could tell, the "Special Movie Presentation" open was from probably late 1970 or early 1971, in terms of when it was first produced; the font was Bernhard Gothic Black, which WOR-TV used for many of its ads during the 1970-71 season.

[@StukInBuf]

At the 50-second mark, when "Movie 9" would end, usually without fail, the trumpet-and-string-heralded "Editorial" would come up right after.

[@David-dz3ig]

when TV was "classic". such things do not and could not exist today. :(

[@gsentinel007]

THANK YOU so much for posting this!

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

Back for my regular fix.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

@Silent Hill Warrior 5 Damn RIGHT, I can't get enough of this Old School NY stuff, Reminds me of my childhood...GOOD TIMES!!!

[@someonenow1]

A worthy sequel to one of my all time favourite videos on KZbin

[@ianmc87]

Good times. I miss this.

[@MSTS1]

Great job- lots of nice graphic clips and anims in there, and cool editing like the first version. Many surprises, too. Well done TT

[@wmbrown6]

I think I was the one who mentioned which tune this "Movie 9" theme was. Very glad to hear it in full.

[@Saturday8pm]

Well, you may know I'm nutz about finding specific openings to horror programs back in The Late '60s and Early '70s ... I'm trying to find a possible "Chiller Theatre" opening that may have been borrowed from one Tribune station to another's, specifically WPiX. It seems that when the montage here in NYC stopped, another one was used for about two seasons, then the hand opening debuted. I'll submit more descriptions later ...

[@samuelgriffin4167]

I remember this being on television

[@lustrevision]

i miss these days of family and the simple pleasures of life!

[@gsentinel007]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[@NEPatriot]

Groovy indeed. Groovalicious even--HEH HEH HEH!

[@farodyoung]

I remember this. Thanks!

[@tapthatt2012]

you were. that was a big help. i found the album on ebay last year.

[@wmbrown6]

Depends on what it'd be about . . .

[@Renagade70]

This was the promo for Movie 9 that usually came on everyday at 1pm.

[@loulage941]

I would pay to see this old content again they can keep there netflix.

[@RealAgentOfSHIELD]

So great

[@johnetheridge5833]

I'm downloading all my favorite classic weekend afternoon network movie opening themes

[@TheCharlisseAngel]

OMG wow I remember that. Geez memories. =)

[@jamesfrancistamburojr8180]

Thanks for the upload

[@tapthatt2012]

that WOR pieceas from the original open. the music for the rest of it is from an LP. Interesting how the music libraies were used back then.

[@shawnmalone9711]

Great video! I grew up in Southern California and I wished our local stations saved all of their intros! Our Channel 9 was KHJ, Los Angeles a RKO. General Station had the M$M and Sci fi theatre , Sinister Seymour in the 1970s and Elvira, Mistress of the Macarbe in the 80s. Channel 11 was KTTV Metromedia Los Angeles. Channel had Movie Greats in the late 1960s early 1970s and Thriller in the late 60s early 70s. Channel 5 KTLA had old movies and the Universal movies , Frankenstein, Dracula etc. Channel 7 was KABC Los Angeles had the 3:30 movie late 60s early 80s. Channel 2 was KNXT Los Angeles Channel 2 had the Early show at 4:30 pm had old movies. It also had the Late Show around 1:00am that had old movies. Channel 4 was KNBC Los Angeles . Channel 13 was KCOP Los Angeles. Check out youtube and get a bit of Los Angeles's tv history

[@abcbatman1966]

Seems like all these old movie intros featured David Niven...the John Wayne inclusion made sense...channel 9 ran the The Hellfighters about ten times a year

[@wmbrown6]

At 0:42 - Jennifer Jones and John Garfield from "We Were Strangers."

[@tomrdee]

Technology is great but, today anyone with a cheep camera can make aTV show and instead of watching a great old movie we have nothing but crap on TV.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

Massive COOL.......

[@wmbrown6]

Sounds more open and alive without the audio compression/limiting WOR added to it. ;D

[@moboutmen]

Did not want it to end.

[@TRKoneAD2]

Can you tap this idea? remember "That's Hollywood" with it's clips from different movies...can you do it Tap? make a modern verison of TAP'S HOLLYWOOD - hmmm...I can't think of an image to compare with Loren emerging from the water Towering Inferno bursting in flames Titanic sinking in the ocean you know something like that Tap.

[@Saturday8pm]

Nice montage! Remember this well. What's the track? I can actually iD a few more stars now. Nice paintings.

[@johnetheridge5833]

Get rid of the infomercials and put the classic movies back where they belong

[@LannieLord]

Sick and home from school . Daytime TV was not "kid friendly" (except for GUMBY !) .

[@wmbrown6]

In that time period (late '60's/early '70's), Tribune had only three stations under their belt - WPIX, WGN Chicago and KWGN Denver. I doubt WGN had a "Chiller" (I think they had a "Creature Features"), and I can't rightly tell about what horror film series KWGN had in the late 1960's. (Tribune didn't take over KTLA Los Angeles until the mid-1980's; in the late 1960's Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasting owned that station.)

[@christopherdunbar394]

Great 😊 media

[@drm147]

seems like all of these movie intros had David Niven in them..

[@nycalling72]

You'd be biased if it wasn't for the fact that you're right.

[@Saturday8pm]

Thanks, Mr Brown! BTW, I know you know NYC programming ... what about California? I have a question ...

[@gmidoro]

Where the hell are LG one and LG3?!!!! BRING THEM BACK!!!

[@tapthatt2012]

haven't come across it yet.

[@mycolortv1]

tapthatt2012..do you still post..its been a while

[@Renagade70]

@johnkun77 You don't sound biased. You sound spot on to me.

[@deniseandread]

anyone Remember WHT

[@fscap811]

+ALERICK CAMPBELL Yes I do! Wometco Home Theater. The original movie channel!!

[@richardm3773]

+fscap811 didn't WHT....have Mets baseball and Islanders hockey in late 70s

[@richardm3773]

+fscap811 didn't WHT....have Mets baseball and Islanders hockey in late 70s

[@richardm3773]

+fscap811 didn't WHT....have Mets baseball and Islanders hockey in late 70s

[@maryexstroughtonaire4244]

ALERICK CAMPBELL The Movie Network!

[@wmbrown6]

As for Sinatra's "Here Goes," here's an opportunity to hear lyrics added to this melody: watch?v=RsaKg-6j5xo

[@ajg2558]

This is home

[@deniseandread]

at 32 seconds isn't that Bruce Wayne Butler Alfred from 1966 Batman show.

[@robvegart]

Looks more like the mutual of omaha guy from way back when, but yeah he looks alot like alfred

[@gtc1961]

+Robert Vega LOL guys...that's Spencer Tracy!

[@gtc1961]

+Robert Vega LOL guys...that's Spencer Tracy!

[@robvegart]

You may reject my post guys, but i had gone through a tremendous conviction lately! Jesus Christ, the only answer is coming soon! May his love and mercy and grace be with us all... Matthew 24:32-33.... Don't turn away as the Kingdom is Nigh!

[@rangers199487]

Its Spencer Tracy.

[@jomfrulysetsfall2119]

This was brown skid mark days in my undies

[@christopherdunbar394]

Illustrated

[@Bobo-uh1bx]

Funny how when you are young you think these will always be on.

[@lustrevision]

This along with the Sunday Night Movie and Movie of The Week!