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Footage of Prince, Aged 11, Discovered in Minneapolis News Clip From 1970

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFilm footage of an 11-year-old Prince has been discovered in the archives of Minneapolis television station WCCO.The brief clip, filmed during a teacher’s strike in April of that year, captures the future music icon speaking in support of the teachers, and jumping around with his characteristic impish grin on his face.“I think they should get a better education too cause, um, and I think they should get some more money ‘cause they’re working extra hours for us and all that stuff,” he says.WCCO restored the film to as part of a story about an educators strike in the same district last month.

Matt Liddy, the station’s production, was reviewing the footage when one boy in particular caught his eye. “I 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?’ And every single person [said] ‘Prince,’” Liddy said.While the boy in the film was almost unquestionably Prince, the footage did not include him identifying himself.

The station took the research project quite seriously, working to find a boy named Ronnie Kitchen, who would be at least 60 today.

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