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Mon Apr 4, 2022, 01:13 AM Apr 2022

Film of Prince at age 11 discovered (known as "Skipper" then)

in WCCO's news archives, the CBS affiliate. They were researching the 1970 Minneapolis school strike, and guess what -- they asked this young boy about his views on the school strike. Cross-posted to GD

start at about 1:09
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/04/03/prince-rare-footage-1970/

Great pic:
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Edited to Add:

Crickets in the GD forum added this:

I couldn't get the video to play at your link, but I found one on YouTube. At time of posting, there are two here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Film+Of+Prince+At+Age+11+

Here's one of them - skip to 1:34 for Prince and his childhood friends at 3:42:


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Film of Prince at age 11 discovered (known as "Skipper" then) (Original Post) progree Apr 2022 OP
This is so great. MontanaMama Apr 2022 #1
Same here n/t pengillian101 Apr 2022 #3
So Cool! BunnyMcGee Apr 2022 #2
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