Wild Chicago!
bill
Amazingly this is the only Wild Chicago segment that I could find on YouTube. Wild Chicago was a great show on public television in Chicago that was a huge inspiration for what I do now on LO-FI SAINT LOUIS. Obviously I didn’t rip it off completely, my format is quite different but I think I picked up some of the editing and shooting techniques from that show. One of the greatest local TV shows ever IMO. This particular segment was about the famous Williams game company in Chicago, makers of lots of Pinball games and video games like Mortal Combat. Great episode. I wish WTTW would put the achives of this show online for everyone to enjoy. It was one of those local shows that anyone from anywhere could enjoy. Will Klinger was the second host of the show. And I think the show suffered a little in it’s later years as personell changed and some of the origninal energy was lost. The first (and my favorite) host of the show was Ben Hollis who is now doing a new show (which I haven’t seen yet) that is similar to the original concept called Wild Chicago’s Illinois Road Trip.
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April 1st, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Both Wild Chicago and Ben around town were my inspiration for Wandering West Michigan, glad we can share our chicago history together!
here is another:
http://www.stitchnbitch.org/stitchnbitch2.mov
use yahoo video search and you can get some more!
April 6th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Hey Bill! This is Nick. I’m the guy who posted the video on YouTube. My friends and I run a webcomic and I was looking to put more content up on the page.
I came across this video a few years ago on a PinMAME message board. People were posting all sorts of videos from tours they used to do at the Bally/Midway factory and this was one of them.
I looked if the video was posted and since it wasn’t I put it up. I have another video I’m going to put up of another local show called Chicago Tonight were they visited the Stern Pinball factory.
Glad to see I could help!