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Rare Footage Of 11-Year-Old Prince Fighting For Better Teacher Pay Has Been Restored From Archives

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A “mysterious gem” has been discovered in an archived reel containing footage of a young Prince being interviewed about the Minneapolis teachers’ strike that occurred in 1970.

The reel was found in the archive room of Minneapolis television station WCCO by the station’s production manager Matt Liddy.

However, he needed to do some research before he could confirm that the 11-year-old boy in the footage was indeed the late musician Prince. READ MORE: Javier Bardem Talks Getting On Stage With Bono & Apologizes For Making Prince An Hour Late To His Concert Liddy uncovered the reel that’s been “untouched for 52 years” as he was going through the archives with hopes of placing the 2022 Minneapolis teachers’ strike, which occurred in the same district last month, into better context.

After stumbling across the reel, Liddy “immediately just went out to the newsroom and started showing people and saying, ‘I’m not gonna tell you who I think this is, but who do you think this is?’” READ MORE: Karaoke Was Nicolas Cage’s ‘Therapy’ Until Someone Leaked A Video Of Him Singing ‘Purple Rain’ A specialist was brought into the station to restore the audio to the footage.

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