Tall Timber

I stumbled across this clip on a Knicks message board. Seriously. It's incredible footage of a 17-year-old, rail-thin Wilt Chamberlain showing off his skills at Kutsher's Hotel in the Catskills, where he worked as a bellhop during his high school summer vacations. The vintage newsreel, produced by Paramount Pictures and narrated by Marty Glickman, is from 1954, six years before Chamberlain made his professional debut with the Harlem Globetrotters and eight years before he put up 100 points against the Knicks in Hershey, Pennsylvania.