Filmed in color, using three 16 MM cameras, as an experiment by Russ and Sylvia Davis's syndication company on September 25, 1953. Not known to have been telecast in color. Was syndicated in black-and-white. Many thanks to the CFA and the late, legendary Russ Davis. Conceivably has never before been seen in color.
@@chicagofilmarchivespresent1774 Without doubt, the CFA has done more to faithfully restore and make available this hoard of films of some of the greatest professional wrestling matches still surviving on film than all other archives combined. Chicago was far ahead of New York City and Los Angeles in putting on compelling wrestling entertainment, via Russ and Sylvia Davis's syndication companies (yes, there were several) -- and their deal with Chicago promoter Fred Kohler -- for telecasting on America's television stations after World War II. They helped pioneer consumer television after the war and much of the original footage was pirated as the decades went by. But pirate film often is missing key "falls" and top-tier restoration. The three of us who put up money years ago to get some of the most famous bouts restored are all now elderly and broke, so we three aren't likely to be able to put together another private-licensing consortium. I wish there was more money, but hope the Federal government will help the CFA in its extraordinarily-kind uploading of over 100 matches for free viewing on TH-cam. You've also got the Ruth Page dance archive and I'd love to see more of that.
@@KenViewer thank you for the kind words and for all your support over the years! It is always so delightful to see how excited everyone is when we digitize new matches.
This is stunning. Thank you for your preservation and digitization of classic wrestling. The historian and wrestling fan in me jumped with excitement when this gem was posted today!
Thanks for posting this amazing gem. I hope you do more from this show in the future. I have never seen such crisp and clean quality and detail before in a vintage 50's wrestling film. The Russ Davis commentary makes it that much better. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
Schmidt was your classic baddie from the 50's. He wrestled all the through to the 80's. His real name was Guy Larose from Canada. Him and Bruno used to have some classic matches up at Maple Leaf Gardens.
I always loved in wrestling how in every match, the babyface gets his hair pulled, but still never has the forethough to shave his entire head and body.
Even the ring announcer looks classy. LOL The film looks to me like it was colorized. Color film from the 1950's usually has more contrast and less detail in the shadows. This match was shot in a dim auditorium and the people's faces after the 1st fall are clearly visible in every detail. That is unusual when you have poor lighting.
@@bluemarbel1242 We promise it was not colorized. Shot in color, telecast in B&W, with the original 16mm color film preserved at Chicago Film Archives.
@@chicagofilmarchivespresent1774 While Technicolor was in vogue back then for 35 MM Hollywood films, 16 MM looks different because it was different. And color-film was slower and needed far more lighting to capture fast-moving images than black-and-white. The Russ Davis crew brought in arc-lights specifically for this film-experiment and may have used other non-typical means to capture the details (there was no standard in 1953 for telecasting color images on American television at that time). The distinct depth-of-field, allowing some audience-members faces to be captured, and no blurring of the movements, is not surprising when I consider it's the CFA which has restored and digitized the film. A gift that most 16 MM film gave from just after its introduction as a standard home-movies film is that it is "safety film" -- meaning it's chemically very different than the nitrate film Hollywood was phasing out at the time. Even Technicolor had numerous incarnations, and Technicolor from the silent-films era appears very different than the later three-strip Technicolor that became a household name. It is genuine, original color recording made in the International Amphitheatre that night. The CFA has other bouts from the same program here -- all photographed during one wrestling card.
@@bluemarbel1242 love watching the gentlemen in the front buy and drink there coca colas. Interesting the vendor poured the bottle in cups. Imagine they feared glass bottles tossed at the nasty nazi wrestler
So agree man. He loved to stick that big chest of his out at Hans. Love all the hot body slams towards the end of the match and all the hot pins Hans was doing on Yukon
Wished he had worn trunks rather then the blue jeans . Loved to have seen various men put a hold like the “ Master Lock” on him . Chest Bernard was another wrestler with a huge upper chest . The Mighty Atlas was another who had the huge barrel chest .
Wonderful to see an old wrestling match in glorious color. Here is a little bit of information about Yukon Eric courtesy of Greg Oliver. Sad but true. "He had married a wrestling fan, and they had two children. While Yukon was on the road, she sold their house, cleaned him out of all his assets and took the children to an undisclosed location. Eric was devastated, and a short time later drove into a church parking lot in Atlanta where he had gotten married and committed suicide with a gun in January 1965. He was found dead in his car the following day.
Great video. The color red didn't survive the years if it were ever recorded correctly. If you look in the crowd the same washed out rust color appears everywhere in its place.
this is an unbelievable look at the golden age in color; i think this must have to be the only and earliest surviving color match? i wonder if it can be used as a template to apply color to some of the b/w matches
This is one of many battles between these two bruisers during the Golden Age of Wrestling who regularly tore the ring down. The first match between these two goliaths was in B&W and the sound was a lot better. They literally tore the ring down. A must-see match.
"That's his mouth you have your finger in" "You sit down their til I come back" "Doing well with getting him loose, aren't you Hans, hmm?" Love this commentator so much
We never got color on our TV till Dad bought a square of plastic shaded across - blue top "sky" brownish center "land" green on bottom 1/3 for earth tones. It took some (imagination) 🤔💭🤨💬butt...👀Yup❕ G~G.
13:15 "What's Hans doing to his pinkies in under here?" Maybe trying to pry those bare feet apart. I'm surprised he didn't stomp on those pinkies at some point in the match like I've seen some women wrestlers to barefoot women wrestlers 😅 13:40 "Schmidt flailed out" But he was pretty woozy from Yukon's head scissors, he couldn't get up on his feet 😅
In the real world, Yukon Eric is substantially more powerful than his opponent! He is just playing to the audience. Hans is just a rag doll! Take look a Yukon Eric's left ear. It's still there and covered with hair. Kowalski just injured the ear, he did not remove it.
This is absolutely incredible. I've never seen wrestling footage from the 50s in such high quality before.
r bruno here,, or before hi
exactly👍‼️
The quality of this footage is amazing, and the match itself is better than anything any of today's wrestling companies puts together.
Thank you CFA. These classic matches are fantastic!
Filmed in color, using three 16 MM cameras, as an experiment by Russ and Sylvia Davis's syndication company on September 25, 1953. Not known to have been telecast in color. Was syndicated in black-and-white. Many thanks to the CFA and the late, legendary Russ Davis. Conceivably has never before been seen in color.
Thanks for the date, Ken!
@@chicagofilmarchivespresent1774 Without doubt, the CFA has done more to faithfully restore and make available this hoard of films of some of the greatest professional wrestling matches still surviving on film than all other archives combined.
Chicago was far ahead of New York City and Los Angeles in putting on compelling wrestling entertainment, via Russ and Sylvia Davis's syndication companies (yes, there were several) -- and their deal with Chicago promoter Fred Kohler -- for telecasting on America's television stations after World War II.
They helped pioneer consumer television after the war and much of the original footage was pirated as the decades went by. But pirate film often is missing key "falls" and top-tier restoration. The three of us who put up money years ago to get some of the most famous bouts restored are all now elderly and broke, so we three aren't likely to be able to put together another private-licensing consortium. I wish there was more money, but hope the Federal government will help the CFA in its extraordinarily-kind uploading of over 100 matches for free viewing on TH-cam. You've also got the Ruth Page dance archive and I'd love to see more of that.
@@KenViewer thank you for the kind words and for all your support over the years! It is always so delightful to see how excited everyone is when we digitize new matches.
I was 6 days old when this match took place
@@chicagofilmarchivespresent1774u do amazing 👏 work
Big thank you to whoever preserved this! A 1950's match in color is such a treat
“Hans Schmidt wrestles with everything including the ring posts but never his conscience.”
Fantastic 😂
I’m amazed along with everyone else. But equally thankful it was recorded. Thank you.
A brilliant match with two of the best.
This is stunning. Thank you for your preservation and digitization of classic wrestling. The historian and wrestling fan in me jumped with excitement when this gem was posted today!
Classic Old Wrestling Yukon Eric was my Late Dad's Favorite
WOW.... I'm stunned to see the footage Quality of this Match that too from 50s.. Can't thank you enough for this. Amazing🔥❤️
Oh! A new Chicago Archives upload... Thank you very much!
Thanks for posting this amazing gem. I hope you do more from this show in the future.
I have never seen such crisp and clean quality and detail before in a vintage 50's wrestling film. The Russ Davis commentary makes it that much better. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing this!!!!
I remember my dad and grandpa watching these guys on Sunday afternoon
Great footage!!!!! Love the cross face on the lock up! Absolutely brilliant work.
Oh yeah! Saw you wrestle in Quebec City as the NSPW champion, mr Dux! Have a nice evening 🍻
Yukon’s solid midsection puffed out & gettin slowly softened up by better opponent: both 100% male !
This is amazing video. absolutely fantastic
The color commentator/play by play guy is the best of all time.
Schmidt was your classic baddie from the 50's. He wrestled all the through to the 80's. His real name was Guy Larose from Canada. Him and Bruno used to have some classic matches up at Maple Leaf Gardens.
Amazing. So thankful there is footage of wrestling going back this far. Appreciate the upload
The footage is awesome....an absolute classic match,,,. TY
In color oh man this is great ty for posting this
This is fantastic! It's always great when Chicago Film Archives has new stuff. This really is extraordinary with the upgrade to HD and the COLOR!
This is wrestling!
Thx for the upload
Thank you sir!
I've never seen a colour wrestling match from 1956 before.
This is incredible. Thank you so much for this. 👍
Outstanding!!!
Colourized footage is great!
I'll never cease to be amazed that there was a time that men got dressed up in coats and ties to go to wrestling matches.
I always loved in wrestling how in every match, the babyface gets his hair pulled, but still never has the forethough to shave his entire head and body.
This is simply amazing. Utterly immaculate.
Even the ring announcer looks classy. LOL
The film looks to me like it was colorized. Color film from the 1950's usually has more contrast and less detail in the shadows. This match was shot in a dim auditorium and the people's faces after the 1st fall are clearly visible in every detail. That is unusual when you have poor lighting.
@@bluemarbel1242 We promise it was not colorized. Shot in color, telecast in B&W, with the original 16mm color film preserved at Chicago Film Archives.
@@chicagofilmarchivespresent1774 While Technicolor was in vogue back then for 35 MM Hollywood films, 16 MM looks different because it was different. And color-film was slower and needed far more lighting to capture fast-moving images than black-and-white.
The Russ Davis crew brought in arc-lights specifically for this film-experiment and may have used other non-typical means to capture the details (there was no standard in 1953 for telecasting color images on American television at that time).
The distinct depth-of-field, allowing some audience-members faces to be captured, and no blurring of the movements, is not surprising when I consider it's the CFA which has restored and digitized the film.
A gift that most 16 MM film gave from just after its introduction as a standard home-movies film is that it is "safety film" -- meaning it's chemically very different than the nitrate film Hollywood was phasing out at the time. Even Technicolor had numerous incarnations, and Technicolor from the silent-films era appears very different than the later three-strip Technicolor that became a household name.
It is genuine, original color recording made in the International Amphitheatre that night. The CFA has other bouts from the same program here -- all photographed during one wrestling card.
@@bluemarbel1242 love watching the gentlemen in the front buy and drink there coca colas. Interesting the vendor poured the bottle in cups. Imagine they feared glass bottles tossed at the nasty nazi wrestler
The chest on Yukon was unbelievable and to see it in color is fantastic .
So agree man. He loved to stick that big chest of his out at Hans. Love all the hot body slams towards the end of the match and all the hot pins Hans was doing on Yukon
Wished he had worn trunks rather then the blue jeans . Loved to have seen various men put a hold like the “ Master Lock” on him . Chest Bernard was another wrestler with a huge upper chest . The Mighty Atlas was another who had the huge barrel chest .
all of them that you mentioned had some big hot chests. Would love have seen all of them together and do a chest pose down.
Hey you two cut it out.
was 100% male ! puffed out that massive chest & solid gut .. gave & took it like a MAN
23:42 Why is John Wayne Gacy the announcer?
Awesome 😎💯😎 thanks Congratulations 🎉
This is 70 years ago CRAZY
Wonderful to see an old wrestling match in glorious color. Here is a little bit of information about Yukon Eric courtesy of Greg Oliver. Sad but true. "He had married a wrestling fan, and they had two children. While Yukon was on the road, she sold their house, cleaned him out of all his assets and took the children to an undisclosed location. Eric was devastated, and a short time later drove into a church parking lot in Atlanta where he had gotten married and committed suicide with a gun in January 1965. He was found dead in his car the following day.
😢😢😢
I saw Hans Schmidt in action about 20 years later in a match against Tiger Jeet Singh. Lots of action outside of the ring.
Professional Wrestling at its absolute best
Great video. The color red didn't survive the years if it were ever recorded correctly. If you look in the crowd the same washed out rust color appears everywhere in its place.
At 7:55 Hans Schmidt is being pinned and the ref isn't counting.
Hans Schmidt was actually a Quebecer playing a German way back in the early 1950’s. Do you know how much heat that would’ve got him?
LOVE IT!!!
this is an unbelievable look at the golden age in color; i think this must have to be the only and earliest surviving color match? i wonder if it can be used as a template to apply color to some of the b/w matches
Wow, great quality. Cheers from Russia!
Jeez Hans Schimdt was shredded
Fans were saying Whoooo back in the 50's so it's not just a Ric Flair thing.
Como e tão lindo este lutador de sunga e tão forte 😍💪💪🐻🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is one of many battles between these two bruisers during the Golden Age of Wrestling who regularly tore the ring down. The first match between these two goliaths was in B&W and the sound was a lot better. They literally tore the ring down. A must-see match.
"That's his mouth you have your finger in"
"You sit down their til I come back"
"Doing well with getting him loose, aren't you Hans, hmm?"
Love this commentator so much
I agree!! He also has that golden, deep, radio voice. Only get that voice with a pack of viceroy a day
"He'll make your backbone joints rattle like an old bum castanet." 10/10
We never got color on our TV till Dad bought a square of plastic shaded across - blue top "sky" brownish center "land" green on bottom 1/3 for earth tones. It took some (imagination) 🤔💭🤨💬butt...👀Yup❕ G~G.
Very nice
Classic match.
Yukon Eric was my grandmas brother
Yukon eric has the look!
Wow! all Eric fans must see this.
It really was a shame that Eric took his own life - he was a real talent.
これはお宝🎥映像!
カラーでユーコンエリックだ
まさにアラスカの人間発電所、
相手も‘’地獄の料理人‘’シュミット
脇役の筆頭。thank,you
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tokyo
japan
This is a real color film?
Or a that was colored?
Anyway, wonderful !!!
Real color!
@@chicagofilmarchivespresent1774
Thank you very much ❗
It is amazing! ❗
I was very impressed by this fantastic film‼️
There were 6 backbreakers rather than the 5 the announcer said in the second fall.
'This is like trying to get into a pair of woolen long johns that are 4 sizes too small.' Hmmmm I'm having difficulty with that comparison!
This is when wrestling was a sport...not the showboating bs of WWE or "the bloodline" trash!
This match is better than what wwe plays
Old school wrestling that I ❤️.......Then what the hell happened?
Caught alongside your cauliflower? They could say that on tv back then? Hahahaha
Eric was built like a tank ..
ユーコンエリック、ハンスシュミット、２人ともはじめて見た。
Loved all those hot body slams at the end. Hans was the better and stronger wrestler doing those slams. Ho match
Great head scissors begins at 12:39.
13:15 "What's Hans doing to his pinkies in under here?"
Maybe trying to pry those bare feet apart. I'm surprised he didn't stomp on those pinkies at some point in the match like I've seen some women wrestlers to barefoot women wrestlers 😅
13:40 "Schmidt flailed out" But he was pretty woozy from Yukon's head scissors, he couldn't get up on his feet 😅
I love jeans headscissors. 😊
Yukon later lost a ear in a match with killer Kowalski
Refreshing to see there isn't an obnoxious neckbeard in sight in the audience.
In the real world, Yukon Eric is substantially more powerful than his opponent! He is just playing to the audience. Hans is just a rag doll!
Take look a Yukon Eric's left ear. It's still there and covered with hair. Kowalski just injured the ear, he did not remove it.
Back when a dollars was still silver and a girl could still cook and still would
These men were just in their late 30's
both in their prime 💪… 100% male 👊🏼
I was two years old when this match happened .
Hot bearhug 15:37
Back when pro wrestling had some credibility , unlike the farcical bufoonery that characterizes today's travestied expression !
Back when you had to put 0 effort in your craft and still get paid
부산고모부 민호
우신아파트
싸우고
그리고 말이야고 정말고 그렇고 목소리 듣고
부곡하와이온천목욕탕
그렇고 목소리 전화 하지말라고요 말고 말이야고 정말고 그렇고 말고 맑고
일나라고이리와고
Some of these people lived in the 1800s.
耳あんじゃん
This looks faker than the wwe.