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For the past few years some of the alumni have been looking for old videos/films, etc of the Long Island Kingsmen. Over the past two years I have heard one of our 1980 show exists however, no one seems to know where it is! The past corps Director does not know. Is there anyone who has any videos of the corps PRIOR to 1981?

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I would have had movies of the 1975 L. I. Kingsmen at the American Legion Nationals finals in Minneapolis, but, unfortunately the batteries ran out in the camera before they came on that night.

I haven't run across videos from those years. Many of the major contests that L. I. made finals of (DCI Canada, World Open, etc.) did produce videos for television audiences, but I don't think they did them for those particular years involving the Kingsmen.

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My parents had some old footage but the films were actually burned in a fire and had to be trashed.

We were told the corps had been filmed at Prelims at DCI in 1980. Some members remember seeing it, some members don't. Does anyone know if corps outside of the top 12 finalists were taped? We were 16th that year.

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I believe 1980 was one of the years that the corps finishing in 13th through 20th place were video taped. I seem to recall that the availability of those tapes was not widely advertised. (Not many home video players in existence yet.) Most likely it would have been corps directors of those corps who may have obtained copies. I haven't seen any videos surface in the last 30 years.

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