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Ok, I couldn't resist doing a little "photoshop job" on the 4:30 Movie logo to make it look like 3:30. ;-) But this is still a significant find - the original opening to the ABC 4:30 Movie in New York (which apparently was exactly the same as the WLS 3:30 Movie here in Chicago, except with the title changed)
My thanks to KZbinr mazinz2 (Doug) for discovering this, and for generously donating a copy of the DVD transfer to our archives.
/ mazinz2
Unfortunately, the 16mm film that this came from didn't have the soundtrack on it, so I had to do an editing job with my best guess as to the synchronization of the video and audio. I decided that this final version was probably pretty darn close. (I like the way the title juts into its final position right as the music crescendos)
The music, an original composition entitled "Big Show Theme," was composed by Walter Raim. (NOT Joe Raposo as originally believed), and was also the theme used for the later and longer-lived "rotating cameraman" opening to the 4:30 Movie: • the 4:30 movie open
Of course, in Chicago, we never got that opening - at some point (presumably around 1975) we switched to a completely different opening, the "Swirling Stars" motif, as well as a different music score. Why did we get an opening all our own? No idea.
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This opening (or at least modifed to say 3:30) aired on local Chicago TV from about 1969 to approximately 1975.
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