Chicago Film Archives presents "Wrestling from Chicago"

GOLDEN AGE WRESTLING FROM THE 1950's (more to come!)

The wrestling matches found in this collection were filmed in Chicago’s International Amphitheatre and feature ringside narration by Russ Davis. The films were produced by Imperial World Films aka Imperial Wrestling Films (IWF), a production company started by Davis and his wife Sylvia in 1949. IWF filmed and edited the wrestling events in Chicago and distributed the finished films to television stations throughout the United States. These 16mm films & elements now reside safely within Chicago Film Archives' Russ & Sylvia Davis Collection (http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/5).


If you enjoy this channel, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Chicago Film Archives - a non-profit regional archives dedicated to collecting, preserving and providing access to Midwest moving-images: http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/donate