Jim Morrison
Long before The Doors
Florida Dept. of State officials have unearthed a previously unknown Jim Morrison film - a promotional piece for Florida State University in Tallahassee where he (and I) attended before dropping out.
If you're a Morrison fan, beware: this is early student film appearance.
Here's the free download site.
And here's a link to an Orlando Sentinel article (registration required). The key graphs:
Now, 34 years after his death, Department of State archivists have found and restored what they think may be the earliest film of Morrison, shot in the early 1960s when he attended Florida State University.
The clip was discovered last year among films WFSU -- a PBS station operated by the university -- donated to the state in 1989 and was recently posted to the state's film-archive Web site after being digitally converted.
Enjoy!