Yukon Eric vs. Hans Schmidt (09/25/1953) - in HD! 

r bruno here,, or before hi

exactly👍‼️

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 RU-vid. 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

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 !

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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 .

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

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

It really was a shame that Eric took his own life - he was a real talent.

Real color!

@@chicagofilmarchivespresent1774 Thank you very much ❗ It is amazing! ❗ I was very impressed by this fantastic film‼️

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. 😊

both in their prime 💪… 100% male 👊🏼