Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a few clips I put together from a "NightLife Theatre" showing in mid-September, 1985. This was the late-night movie package on WTAF 29 (now WTXF), serving the Philadelphia metro area as well as parts of New Jersey.
After the intro, there are ads for the inaugural Keystone Nationals (National Hot Rod Association Championship Drag Racing) at the Maple Grove Raceway, Princess Furniture, Somnia pull-out sofa beds, Robbins at Eighth & Walnut (with the Dovells doing "Fun, Fun, Fun" with a bikini girl and the guy with a diamond on his face), and cable TV. There's also a "Mystery Movies" promo, and an acid rain PSA from the EPA National Lake Survey. The video closes with a slight glitch, fifteen seconds of dead air after an ad break.
And NO, other YouTubers, you may NOT hijack this video for your own channels--I'd prefer the views stay right here, thanks!
No rights held or implied. (If you'd like this video removed for copyright reasons, please contact me rather than notifying YouTube, I will gladly take it down from this channel.) This is on compilation 80 at oldtvads.blogspot.com...
Here's a few clips I put together from a "NightLife Theatre" showing in mid-September, 1985. This was the late-night movie package on WTAF 29 (now WTXF), serving the Philadelphia metro area as well as parts of New Jersey.
After the intro, there are ads for the inaugural Keystone Nationals (National Hot Rod Association Championship Drag Racing) at the Maple Grove Raceway, Princess Furniture, Somnia pull-out sofa beds, Robbins at Eighth & Walnut (with the Dovells doing "Fun, Fun, Fun" with a bikini girl and the guy with a diamond on his face), and cable TV. There's also a "Mystery Movies" promo, and an acid rain PSA from the EPA National Lake Survey. The video closes with a slight glitch, fifteen seconds of dead air after an ad break.
And NO, other YouTubers, you may NOT hijack this video for your own channels--I'd prefer the views stay right here, thanks!
No rights held or implied. (If you'd like this video removed for copyright reasons, please contact me rather than notifying YouTube, I will gladly take it down from this channel.) This is on compilation 80 at oldtvads.blogspot.com...






![Arts and Entertainment Channel, Movie Milestones, 1936 / 1986 Promos
This is an interesting short subject recorded from the Arts and Entertainment cable channel (now better known as A&E) in 1986. Its called Movie Milestones, with the subtitle Memorable Scenes from Famous Movies.
Film producer Adolph Zukor presented some clips of popular silent movies (not produced by him) for this 1936 short. The opening credits must have been created in the mid-1950s, by UM&M TV Corporation, which was acquired by National Telefilm Associates Inc. in 1956 (and which has the closing production credit). Narration is by Alois Havrilla; editing by Fred Waller and Milton Hocky; commentary by H.A. Woodmansee.
The films represented are:
The Ten Commandments, 1923, showing Moses parting (and unparting) the Red Sea as described in Exodus;
Behind the Front, 1926, a war comedy with Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton; [commercial break edited out here]
The Way of All Flesh, a 1927 drama with Emil Jannings in the first performance to win the Best Actor Oscar, a film now considered lost but for a few extant minutes;
Old Ironsides, a 1926 historical film (also starring Beery) depicting the creation of the United States Navy and its battle with Barbary Coast pirates.
Ive included a few other A&E promos from the same recording: a general station promo with the Surprise Your Eyes! slogan; Jane Eyre, a miniseries with Timothy Dalton; The Amish: Not to Be Modern; and finally, Evening at the Improv, with many well-known comedians of the day.
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