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Post by wingedeagle on Aug 14, 2016 19:19:20 GMT -5
Hopefully, the NWA Network will encourage WWE to upload older content.
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Post by Doogie Bowser, MD on Aug 15, 2016 2:20:33 GMT -5
If they did, it would be on kinescope film, since videotape didn't exist as an option during DuMont's existence. The earlier "Honeymooners" episodes that started running in syndication in the mid-80s were mastered from kinescopes of Jackie Gleason's DuMont varety show, which should give you an idea of what the wrestling shows would look like if they existed. If Capitol Wrestling didn't save anything, the wrestling ended up being dumped into the East River in the 1970s with most of the rest of DuMont's archives, or stripped for silver content. All we have left of what aired on that network is from private collections. I've done some research into this and from the DuMont era, three television archives survive - Gleason, Archbishop Sheen and Capitol. What is left of the DuMont shows is extremely well-documented. Only ten episodes of any DuMont wrestling program (there were several) are known to exist, and are housed by the UCLA Film & Television archive. Most of them are from Chicago.
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