Odd and old clip featuring Jim Morrison

[zeno]

Found it on youtube. Was wondering if anyone could provide any background on it.

[Walloon]

A promtional film made by Florida State University, in Clearwater, where Morrison was an undergrad studying theater arts, in 1962-1963. Released in 1964.

More here.

[fishbicycle]

Florida State University (my employer) is in Tallahassee. I can’t find any reference in the first 10 pages of Google that they have now, or have ever had a campus in Clearwater. Over on the TLH campus, they do make reference to when Morrison used to attend FSU here.

[ShibbOleth]

According to Wikipedia:

Morrison graduated from George Washington High School (now George Washington Middle School) in Alexandria, Virginia in June 1961. His father was transferred to Southern California that August. Morrison was sent to live with his paternal grandparents in Clearwater, Florida, where he attended classes at St. Petersburg Junior College.

He later transferred to Florida State University (1962-1963), which still afforded a favorable tuition but was too far away for a reasonable commute. Morrison thus moved close to the FSU campus where, for a time, he was a roommate of George Greer, and appeared in a school recruitment film.[1]

In January 1964, urged on by an FSU professor, Morrison headed for Los Angeles, California where he completed his undergraduate education at UCLA, majoring in film.

Jim made two films while attending UCLA film school. The first one entitled "First Love " is finally released to the public, unedited at the end of the documentary about the film called “Obscura”.

I’d heard that he’d attended St Pete JC (now just St. Petersburg College) but was not aware that he’d gone to school in Tallahassee. I’m a Florida alum so could have just blocked that out. There were two main branches of SPJC when I first moved to Florida in the late, one of them in Clearwater, so I kind of assume he attended that campus.

[Common_Tater]

That made the national news a few years back, iirc Jimmy looks almost presentable in his chinos and button down starched shirt.