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  • [WTTW Channel 11 35th Anniversary Celebration]

    [WTTW Channel 11 35th Anniversary Celebration]

    Program celebrating 35 years of Chicago’s public tv station, WTTW.

  • [Pledge Breaks w/ Will Clinger from 3/10/96]

    [Pledge Breaks w/ Will Clinger from 3/10/96]

    0:08 Commercial for an aviation company.  0:32 Wild Chicago introduction. Cheryl Komada introduces Will Clinger and explains how viewers can become members of the WTTW channel over the phone by pledging various amounts of money. Clinger talks about the program and the viewer contest they’ve been holding. The program continues with Clinger talking to people working at the telethon and Komada continues to name prizes.  6:50 Focus on a caricature artist. He talks to the runner up of a lyrics […]

  • [Wild Vision Set-Ups]

    [Wild Vision Set-Ups]

    Raw footage of Will Clinger talking to people on the street for Wild Chicago.

  • [Rudy’s Film Window Dub 2 of 2]

    [Rudy’s Film Window Dub 2 of 2]

    Window-dubbed version of Rudy Horn’s home movies, for Will Clinger’s “Vanishing Act: The Vaudeville Era in Chicago.” Horn was a world-renowned juggler. The footage is primarily travel footage from the Western U.S. [Continuation of tape 17313].

  • [Rudy’s Film Window dub 1 of 2]

    [Rudy’s Film Window dub 1 of 2]

    Death-defying stunts, dazzling acrobatics, alluring costumed dances, all of that and more can be witnessed in this historical footage from the World War II Era!

  • [Vanishing Act raw: HII Dub]

    [Vanishing Act raw: HII Dub]

    Raw footage for Vanishing Act: Vaudeville in Chicago.

  • [Vaudeville Footage]

    [Vaudeville Footage]

    0:13 Color bars. Audio starts.  0:25 Video begins. Raw footage of Will Clinger interviewing Sam Lessner in his office at the Hyde Park Harold. They talk about what Vaudeville was, and how he became involved. They talk about the celebrity of being a performer, and the transition when Vaudeville ended.  4:48 Clinger asks what distinguished Burlesque and Vaudeville. They then talk about theaters in Chicago. 9:10 Clinger asks about the offstage personalities of the performers. Lessner explains some of their […]

  • [Vanishing Act – Bob De Florres Tape #1]

    [Vanishing Act – Bob De Florres Tape #1]

    0:28 Open on a Vaudeville tap dance performance by Bobby Davis. He performs different routines by imitating different Vaudeville performers.  3:31 A different tap and comedy performance begins with three men that drastically vary in height.  6:13 Cut to a comedy dance routine.  9:40 Tap performance accompanied by live music. 10:54 Repeated footage from the beginning of the tape. Cut to black.  11:17 Tape ends. 

 
 
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