| Early Video of Jim Morrison |
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This video is an amazing find. A young college bound Jim Morrison is seen in a public relations Florida State University film - long before there was any concept of the legendary figure he would become with The Doors. Jim Morrison appears in two parts of this film and his voice seems to be over-dubbed with someone else's in the first part. But the second part is unmistakably his Lizard King voice.
The film was taken either in late 1963 or early 1964 and rediscovered in 2005 as an archived but uncatalogued PR film for FSU. It was discovered when the Department of State went through 1,000 films in its archive and probably would have gone unnoticed if Jaime Madden hadn't noticed a familiarity in the way young Morrison was standing in part of the brief clip. Here is another rare
clip of Morrison while he was with the The Doors. |
