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''The 4:30 Movie'' was a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels. The more popular episodes were "Monster Week," "''Planet of the Apes'' Week" and "Vincent Price Week." Some films, such as ''Ben-Hur'' and ''How the West Was Won'', were of such length that an entire week was devoted to running the whole movie. Other films that ran longer than the program's 90-minute length were often divided into two parts and shown over two days. Variations of ''The 4:30 Movie'' were aired on other stations around the United States, most notably those also owned and operated by WABC-TV's parent network, ABC. ==History== ''The 4:30 Movie'' got its start on January 8, 1968. In its first year in that time slot, it was broadcast under the title ''The Big Show''.〔Per WABC-TV's advertising in the Daily News during the 1968–69 season, the latest ad to refer to the program as ''The Big Show'' was in the December 4, 1968 issue, while the earliest ad to mention the title as ''The 4:30 Movie'' was in the February 13, 1969 issue (for the showing of ''Man's Favorite Sport?''). This would place the title change around January 1969.〕 This earlier title dated back to September 16, 1963, when WABC first aired movies in the late afternoons to compete with WCBS-TV's long-running ''The Early Show'' and WNBC-TV's ''Movie Four''. The movies were shown at 5:00 until December 31, 1965, and at 6:00 from January 3, 1966 to January 5, 1968. (From the autumn of 1966 to the 1968 time change, it was called ''The 6 O'Clock Movie'', a title which was also used by sister stations KABC-TV in Los Angeles and KGO-TV in San Francisco until 1971.) In its first twenty months in its soon-to-be titular time slot, ''The Big Show / 4:30 Movie'' was two hours, but after the early evening ''Eyewitness News'' was expanded from 30 minutes to an hour on September 8, 1969, the movie show's length was set at 90 minutes, which it would remain for the rest of its run. After the autumn of 1972, the program was preempted once a month on Wednesday in the school months to run an episode of the ''ABC Afterschool Special''. The announcer and off-camera host for ''The Big Show,'' and ''The 4:30 Movie'' was Scott Vincent from January 1968 to December 1978. At Scott Vincent's request, Gilbert Hodges assumed his duties during his illness in 1979. Following Vincent's death, announcing on promos was divided among Hodges, Fred Foy, Joel Crager and Ernie Anderson. The copy for ''The 4:30 Movies openings, bumpers, and promos was written by Jon Kal. The instrumental used as the theme music to ''The 4:30 Movie'' was an original composition, "Big Show Theme," composed by Walter Raim, 〔From https://www.ascap.com/home/ace-title-search/index.aspx - Title: "Big Show Theme" (alternate title: "Big Show"); Work ID: 320154507; ISWC: T0700139907; Writers: Raim, Walter; Performers: Rainford, T; Publishers/Administrators: American Broadcasting Music Inc.; Current Affiliation, ASCAP; IPI #69166843.〕 written and originally recorded in the waning months of WABC's using ''The Big Show'' title. The piece was commissioned by ABC in 1968 for use on the local movie shows of the network's O&Os, and on WABC-TV was later applied to its other movie umbrellas. The first opening title sequence associated with ''The 4:30 Movie'' was a motif of a film crew setting up studio lights and adjusting a movie camera, and ending with a director sitting in a chair and holding a bullhorn before the title zoomed in; this was used from 1969 until circa 1973.〔()〕 The most famous image associated with the show's opening, a silhouetted image of a "rotating cameraman" operating a 35 mm movie camera, was animated by Harry Marks and used on WABC-TV from around 1973 to 1980. This opening was also applied to the station's other movie shows, and was used for their ''Saturday Night Movie'' and ''Sunday Night Movie'' as late as 1987, with the theme music still in use up to 1991. The "rotating cameraman" footage originated from the opening titles for the weekend edition of the ''ABC Movie of the Week'' in 1971 (). From 1980 to the end, ''The 4:30 Movies opening titles were similar to what was used for ''The ABC Sunday Night Movie'' and ''The ABC Friday Night Movie'' in the late 1970s, except with different theme music ("Skippin' " by Ramsey Lewis, from his 1977 album ''Tequila Mockingbird''). ''The 4:30 Movie'' was cancelled by WABC-TV in November 1981, and was replaced effective November 30 by ''The People's Court'' and a 5:00 edition of ''Eyewitness News''. As with many once-popular movie shows on both the networks and local television stations, the factors most commonly cited in ''The 4:30 Movies demise ranged from the proliferation of cable television channels such as HBO, Cinemax and Showtime, to the increasing popularity of videocassette recorders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The 4:30 Movie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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