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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Sept 18, 2014 19:24:09 GMT -6
Is it true Jim Cornette once rescued a bunch of NWA footage from a garbage dump? I saw this online and wasn't sure what to make of it. Who would be so stupid to actually throw out masters and then of course the idea of Cornette dumpster diving is so wild it makes me laugh - so what's the deal here?
There are some elements of truth out there. As far as who was stupid enough, well, it was Turner Broadcasting. As the legend goes, when Turner came to clean out the old Jim Crockett Promotions office, they left behind a bunch of old 8 mm film reels that were material shot of Crockett house shows. Why? Well, it was Turner Broadcasting and they did dumb things sometimes. Cornette had instructed the janitor that if anything was left behind, to call him and Cornette took the materials for his own archives as opposed to just letting it get thrown out. He later paid to have the materials transferred to VHS and some of that material eventually floated out among collectors - but Cornette wasn't "dumpster diving" as much as he was protecting the history of something he truly loves.
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