JAT Productions announced it will finally release volume five in their "Hot Shots And Cool Clips" series. Based on the information provided when this DVD was originally announce quite some time ago the contents will feature one hour of unreleased Elvis footage.Highlights included: Las Vegas, NV. July 31, 1969 VIP show. A short but fascinating look of Elvis on stage at the end of this historic performance with the curtain going down and the crowd on its feet, plus interviews with celebrity guests. Elvis performing in 1956 at the Armory in Louisville, KY on November 25th. All unreleased behind the scenes footage at the filming of 'It Happened At The World's Fair' in 1962. An unreleased army interview caught off guard in his bunk. A special unreleased vignette of 'Paradise Hawaiian Style'.
Unseen Elvis
A set of what is called "amazing pictures of Elvis Presley hugging a smitten schoolgirl" are seen in public for the first time today after lying hidden for 52 years. The photos show The King, then 24, relaxing on military service. He is shown cuddling 15-year-old Sigrid Schulz and letting her wear his cap before signing records for fans.
Sigrid handed the photos to a friend to prove she had met the singer at a German army base in 1959. But for many years they lay gathering dust in a drawer. Tonight the photos, worth up to £7,000, will be shown on BBC1’s Antiques Roadshow. Presenter Fiona Bruce said: “These must be some of the most stunning pictures of a young Elvis I’ve ever seen. To think they’ve never been seen in public before.”
It was pure luck that young Sigrid met Elvis when her father took her to Bad Nauheim, where he was staying.
The woman, who owns the pictures and now lives in London but wishes to stay anonymous, was a childhood pal of Sigrid.
She recalled: “Sigrid, who was a year or two older than me, told me excitedly, ‘I’ve seen Elvis and I’ve touched him and he kissed me’. “To prove it, she gave me copies of the photographs that her parents had taken. When word got out, there was a meteoric rise in her popularity.
“She had obviously been able to spend some time with Elvis and, being a very pretty girl, seems to have impressed him. She was kissed by him and wouldn’t wash her cheek for a week. “He gave her a rose, which we pressed and she shared the petals with me. I kept the dried petals in foil under my bed. I still have them. Sigrid and I lost touch long ago but I kept the photographs safely in a drawer and brought them out when the Antiques Roadshow came to London.”
Roadshow memorabilia expert Hilary Kay said: “I’ve never seen Elvis Presley look more gorgeous. It is a wonderful collection and the thing is nobody knew these photographs existed.
“Cumulatively these are really valuable – worth between £5,000 and £7,000. The fan base for Elvis is still really strong.”
The photos were taken shortly before Elvis met wife-to-be Priscilla Beaulieu, who was just 14.
Antiques Roadshow, BBC1 tonight (03rd March 2011) at 8 pm.
(Source: Elvis Australia / Elvis Express)