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The Doors are hired to provide a soundtrack to a Ford employee-training film for mechanics. Although the finished film features edits to the soundtrack, it is supposedly composed while The Doors view the film on a monitor in a small, unknown L.A. studio. John Densmore has confirmed that the Doors have this film in their archives. The soundtrack is said to include an instrumental arrangement similar to The Doors' 1969 studio recording,'The Soft Parade', however new information has revealed that portions of the soundtrack's instrumentals are similar to 'I Looked At You', and include approximately 15 minutes of music in total.
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In October 1968, The Doors are approached by Buick to use 'Light My Fire' in a television commercial. A recorded copy of this television advertisement is yet to be found. It does not feature the Doors, however rights were issued to Buick to use the song as they saw fit. John Densmore recalls "It all started in 1968, when Buick offered us $75,000 to use 'Light My Fire' to hawk its new hot little offering--the Opel. Ray, Robby and I OK'd it, while Jim was out of town. He came back and went nuts. And it wasn't even his song (Robby primarily having penned 'LMF')! In retrospect, his calling up Buick and saying that if they aired the ad, he'd smash an Opel on television with a sledgehammer was fantastic!".
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16mm Black and white newsreel footage with audio. This footage is said to have been shot as The Doors are entering CBC studios in Toronto 1968, however it appears more likely to have been filmed backstage at the C.N.E. Coliseum. This footage does not lie in The Doors archives.
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A Jim Morrison death announcement reported by Walter Cronkite of CBS on July 8th, 1971. Due to the circumstances of the event, news of Jim's death was usually not reported by the media until July 7th or later. This television broadcast includes what details are known about the incident in Paris. Filmed in B&w.
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Another known Jim Morrison death announcement reported by NBC on July 9th, 1971. Features a mention of Jim's death in Paris. B&w.
