Wrestling Thrills
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Duration: 16-si-sd
Year Published: 1940s
Creator: Official Films
Description: "An Official Films Sportbeam." Home transfer from 16mm original. The newsreel features Bill Stern discussing the sport of wrestling, highlighting its evolution and the various styles, such as Greco-Roman and modern wrestling. The video showcases matches between colorful characters, including Carol Krauser, an Indian chief named Bamboo Taboo, and female wrestlers. The action is intense, with humorous commentary on the chaotic nature of wrestling and the referee's challenges in maintaining order. Ultimately, Prince Jojo emerges as the new champion after a series of entertaining bouts. Keywords wrestling, newsreel, sports, Greco-Roman, entertainment, female wrestling, match highlights, commentary, characters, championship
Complete Record: "An Official Films Sportbeam." Home transfer from 16mm original. The newsreel features Bill Stern discussing the sport of wrestling, highlighting its evolution and the various styles, such as Greco-Roman and modern wrestling. The video showcases matches between colorful characters, including Carol Krauser, an Indian chief named Bamboo Taboo, and female wrestlers. The action is intense, with humorous commentary on the chaotic nature of wrestling and the referee's challenges in maintaining order. Ultimately, Prince Jojo emerges as the new champion after a series of entertaining bouts.
Keywords
wrestling, newsreel, sports, Greco-Roman, entertainment, female wrestling, match highlights, commentary, characters, championshipTranscription
[Music] hello there this is bill stern bringing you the lowdown on the classic art of wrestling just about the nearest thing to a roman holiday since nero fiddled and the customers burn even though wrestling is perhaps one of the oldest of sports i'm not trying to tell you that aging has made it any milder in fact progress in this exercise has reached such a point that today it's often hard to tell whether it's wrestling or just a good old-fashioned slugfest the gentleman who is just trying out his knuckles is carol pauser the polish apollo and he weighs 205 pounds his opponent is an indian chief by name bamboo taboo right now he's far away from the florida everglades where his thrive the seminoles live the redskins kind of puny compared to carol he only weighs 195. while the pole gets acquainted with the folks down there who pay the cash money i may as well tell you that there are three different and distinct styles of wrestling the grieco roman the oriental and you guessed it the streamlined modern version which is now being demonstrated [Applause] oh too bad chief but you had it coming to you hey chief that ain't wrestling and chairs are getting scarce the ancient sport of wrestling is conducted according to a complicated series of rules but it seems that someone must have thrown the book away so that today the referee can use his own judgment about unusual situations we've got one right now because both boys are in the ring for a change all right fellas now let's see some of those scientific holes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] bingo the pole sucks the indian with his head and again the chief is dizzy if he only had his tomahawk bowser shows some nice head work what wrestlers call skull practice big chief effect way point hand safe indian head hard too he's going to give krauser a dose of his own medicine ooh looks like the chief didn't see the red light so mr concrete trouser pins his shoulders to the mat and another bites the dust [Applause] ah something new has been added you said it the feminine touch decks cleared for action our amazonian bone benders stalk each other like a couple of barnyard roosters only these is chickens now dipping firmly into alga's lovely tresses glamorous hanker sets out to wind up things in a hurry [Music] a rag a bone and a hank of hair and hanka hankers to hang on the referee's trying to unscramble a pair of hard-boiled eggs oh i beg your pardon i mean legs leave it to women to get things all mixed up nice going now got great wrestling form you have there yes indeedy [Applause] but now our cossack co-ed finds herself all tied up in a beautiful hammerlock hey polska no boot below the belt taint cricket [Music] into the ropes and the panic is on no stalling now this is war to the finish seems as if this ring isn't big enough so what so they take the battle to the bald head row real old-fashioned hair pulling contest it'll take more than mere man to stop this i'll go not in a gentleman's lap you've never even been introduced the gals are giving each other a finger wave and i don't mean a permanent never a dull moment the ref thinks the rough stuff has gone far enough algon hanker queens of the squared circle both vapes back on the map for a change olga grabbing the polish beauty for a slam to the canvas for the works hank has pinned to the mat and as she burned a boy she's sizzling what she's thinking about alga shouldn't happen to a dog any minute now and there it is congratulations champ [Music] well here's something of a variation on the original theme a double bill with both features on the screen at the same time sort of like guerilla warfare with four gorillas from left to right if they'll only keep still for a moment john maylis body slamming our old friend the now the prince amber jojo the arabian sheik who weighs in at a cool 214 one reason he lands so hard they form a daisy chain conga line or something don't ask me why the fourth contestant is one of our boys bobby bruns the american apollo notice what modest labels these kids hang on themselves [Music] all right fellas back to work well here goes the chief tangling with milas who calls himself the greek adonis nobody ever called a poor old engine any pretty names and maybe soar you can't blame him the sheik comes in but friends reminds him no trespassing miles joins the blitzkrieg but the prince gets a body hole on him and meanwhile the indian gets all set but guess is wrong it's a since he never read dale carnegie's best seller how to win friends and influence people anyhow reading books is a slight use in this game the fans here want action so the boys pair off again only right away the indian the prince change partners the indian tries that head crack routine he learned from krauser and he's certainly cracked if he tries it again [Applause] cooperation yeah that's what's needed here manus no sooner sets the indian overboard when bobby barges in and socks old adonis in the breadbasket mill us old boy it'll take more than fast talk to save you now under any rules greek go roman catches catch can or what have you you're out it's a fall and you're the fall guy okay [Music] is eliminated and this leaves the engine on the left print center then runs three up and two to go who's going to stay in well the indian is out of luck whether he knows it or not see the customers have gotten into the game this gives the prince a chance to put a full nelson on bobby haha some real wrestling but the spectators don't know and enough's enough this engine's so popular the fans just won't let him go the chiefs on the war pathoban first runs and then the prince [Music] [Music] but as usual he picked the wrong parties just look at him now he feels the way strangler lewis must have felt back in 29 when he got licked by sonnenberg only this poor guy has two sonnenbergs against him taint fair pal but don't blame me you chose this way to make a living if you want to take on a whole army that's your privilege only don't gripe about it now at least not to me you've got the indian sign on your chief you're out [Music] the prince figures he better get after bruns now a headlock and a few uppercuts the jury will please disregard the knuckle step [Music] the noble red man thinks he should interfere but the refs on the job so the chief can only be credited with good intentions [Applause] [Music] [Applause] looks like old prince jojo has plenty of staying power arabs learned about it watching camels in the desert wait a minute runs is back in there boy the kid's got what it takes how about it jojo uh no you can't resign now the fans want to fight for a tough guy you're sure putting on some act but you got a brutal audience get back in there and wrestle wingo that did it over the fence and runs is out third victim of prince amir jojo the winner and new champion [Music]
Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946
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