WMAQ Channel 5 - Today in Chicago - "Homemade Halloween Costumes" (Excerpt, 1968) 🎃

From long before Norman Mark hosted the program (and made it a serious discussion show), here's an early example of Today in Chicago from WMAQ Channel 5 - here giving tips on how to make Halloween costumes at home. Host is Bob Hale (who began with the show in 1967 and continued into the '70's), and the demonstrator of costume making is Bonnie Remsberg (who hosted a long-running Sunday morning show on WMAQ, “Some of My Best Friends”), along with her 3-year-old son Richard Remsberg (who is now an Emmy Award-winning archival researcher and producer with Atlas Films).
(NOTE: The logo is set in Peignot Bold, a popular font that screams "1960's" - and would later be used for the 1970-77 "Mary Tyler Moore" show. Also, this is from a black-and-white kinescope of what would originally have aired in color. And notice the General Electric clock in place of the 'O'; ironic, given that GE would later take over NBC nearly two decades from this.)
Bonnie sets up the premise for this segment, then calls up Bob and Richard to aid in her demonstration, using crepe paper and what's already on the person. She puts a whole bunch of candy box bows onto Richard, then pins bows, a clown hat, cold cream on the face and makeup on him, to make him look like a clown; while working on him, she asks what yellow animals he'd know of, and after he gives his answer they make him look like a lion; finally, they work to make him look like the U.S. flag (a small representation of which he waves). Next she decides to do her magic on Bob himself (who mentions, during this, that they're in the studio where Dave Garroway had gotten his start), turning him into a sunflower.
With that, Bob closes the show and previews the next day's edition (with Judith Crist and Peter Jacoby), and the voiceover (by ??) advises what show you had been watching.
"Portions of the Preceding Program Were Mechanically Reproduced."
This aired on local Chicago TV sometime in October 1968 between 6:45am and 6:53am.
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[@laurazielinski2437]

She’s so respectful of Richard’s space, “Richard may I touch your face, may I put this on you?” You can tell they practiced.

[@ken_danerdiest1]

I didn't know that Today in Chicago existed in the 60s. Great find!

[@misstee101]

Awww, Richard!

[@Spiritdove64]

imagine this boy as an adult living this down. hahaha

[@americangirl971]

I miss those simpler times...

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

This was my mom's world.

[@laurazielinski2437]

Richard is a doll! 😂

[@timstamps5281]

Where is Richard now? I hope he’s around and sees this.

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

Yep! Check out the video description - he’s doing great!

[@timstamps5281]

Archivist - cool!

[@Spiritdove64]

I bet he has fond memories of his childhood. some of us do not.

[@ernestconnell8087]

Now he’s 60

[@HereForTheComments]

I wonder if being a lion or something like that for Halloween was associated with being "one of the poor kids." If Richard wears a homemade lion costume for Halloween, what are the kids whose parents spend money on the costumes getting to go as?

[@timstamps5281]

I believe this would have been broadcast in color. It was too expensive to save many color tapes.

[@wmbrown6]

It mentions in the description this would have been originally broadcast in color, and that this was a B&W kinescope.

[@timstamps5281]

@@wmbrown6Ah! I see it now! Thanks

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@wmbrown6In this case, thank god this was backed up on film.

[@wmbrown6]

@@ChristopherSobieniak - Evidently.

[@Spiritdove64]

All I got was a sheet with holes cut in it for eyes and nose..lol

[@dariowiter3078]

The lady in this demonstration is quite attractive. 😁😁😁😁😁

[@laurazielinski2437]

Does crepe paper still exist?

[@SunnysFilms]

Yes, it does. Though I usually see it sold in ribbons rather than sheets nowadays. I'm sure the latter is available, I just don't typically see it.

[@Foxonian]

I was the same age as that kid when this show aired.

[@JoshuaGalka]

Great! This was back WAAAAAAAY before HDTV and the internet...