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00:00Now to a Fox 5 exclusive, newly discovered, and never-before-seen video of the king of rock and roll.
00:05That's right. We've unearthed video from a trip that Elvis Presley took to New York City in 1956.
00:10Robert Moses here now with a story you won't see anywhere else. Robert, this is wild.
00:15It's great. Steve and Natasha, as journalists, we like to say that we will travel as far as we need to get the story.
00:22Well, in this case, we didn't have to go far, proving that sometimes the best stories are right in front of you if you just look.
00:30As far as the eye can see, a press of excited youngsters from all over the region are on hand for the return of Elvis Presley to Tupelo, Mississippi, the town where he was born.
00:45In September of 1956, nearing the apex of his rise to stardom, Elvis Presley received a hometown hero's welcome.
00:54Nearly seven decades later, Elvis still fascinates.
00:58On January 8th, he would have turned 90, a milestone birthday for the king of rock and roll, worthy of a mention on our 6 o'clock newscast.
01:08Producer Max Weiskopf asked managing editor Peter Fasini to find footage to use on the air that night.
01:14The Fox Movie Tone Archive had been digitized over the last couple of years, which makes it kind of easy to find things.
01:22There was this one clip, this one file that came up, and I'm just, I'm looking at it, and I'm like, okay, this looks different to me.
01:32There seemed to be a good story here.
01:35Peter examined the unedited silent clip, which runs a little more than two minutes, frame by precious frame.
01:41What is Elvis doing, and where is he?
01:45Almost immediately, the slate offers some key clues.
01:48The date, October 29th, 1956.
01:51And the director, R. Webb, as in Robert Webb.
01:55A quick search reveals that on October 29th, 1956, Elvis was in New York City shooting a new ending scene for Webb's movie,
02:03Love Me Tender.
02:06Love Me Tender, Elvis' first feature film.
02:10It was just in the archives, a terrific find.
02:12Brooklyn College film professor Foster Hirsch, the author of Hollywood and the Movies of the 50s, saw the film when he was 13 years old.
02:20The shrieks from fellow audience members forced Hirsch to go back and see it again.
02:26I wanted to find out how, if he could act, because I thought if I wait a week or two, the pandemonium will die down.
02:33And it did. It did.
02:35You could hear his dialogue after about a week or two, but not the opening weekend.
02:41And what about that ending?
02:42Our story, after all, revolves around that infamous ending.
02:47When they were previewing it to audiences, the reaction was extremely negative.
02:52Teenage girls were not happy that Elvis, spoiler alert, dies at the end of this film.
03:00Producers added a scene to cushion the blow of his death, showing the ghost of Elvis on screen, singing the title song, Love Me Tender.
03:08Happiness will follow you.
03:13It is this ending that Elvis was recording in New York on that October day in 1956.
03:19But there is still the issue of where.
03:21Where in New York City is he recording it?
03:24Again, the video speaks, albeit silently, when Elvis walks out of the studio and onto the sidewalk to greet his fans.
03:32It was just blind luck.
03:35This building looks familiar to me.
03:37And I kept pausing it and going back and looking at the exterior and it's like, I think I know where this is.
03:42How many times have you walked by that building?
03:45Dozens. Dozens.
03:47The building, an old carriage house, sits on the north side of East 69th Street between 3rd and Lex, just two blocks from our television station.
03:56The building once housed Junco Studios.
03:59Isn't it amazing? You can walk the streets of Manhattan and not realize what has happened in that spot years before.
04:07It's pretty cool.
04:08So we figured out the where and the what, but we still wondered, so what?
04:14How significant of a find is this two-minute clip?
04:17Where do you go for the answers?
04:19And it took me a little bit and you go to Graceland.
04:22And that's when I called Angie.
04:23My name's Angie Marchese and I'm the Vice President of Archives and Exhibitions at Elvis Presley's Graceland.
04:29Angie Marchese was five when Elvis died.
04:32I feel like he's like a long lost uncle that I know everything about, but I never had the opportunity to meet.
04:38Angie started working at Graceland when she was 17.
04:41She is the world's foremost Elvis expert.
04:44If she hasn't seen it, nobody has.
04:47So she of all people can put the discovery in perspective.
04:50It's very rare, especially almost 50 years after someone has passed away, to find something that's truly never been seen before.
04:57All the casual behind the scenes and interacting with the director and meeting the fans outside and the studio and him going to the car, all of that stuff was brand new to me.
05:10To find two minutes of unedited Elvis film from 1956 is pretty priceless.
05:18Like Peter, Angie poured over the silent footage.
05:21She scrutinized everything.
05:23You can see how Elvis was being very professional, but also wanting to do it right and taking direction very well from the director so they could capture that moment perfectly.
05:35And he could have been behind the door and wave at them through the window.
05:39But no, he opened the door and he was signing autographs and taking pictures.
05:42He never forgot who made it possible for him to buy this beautiful mansion in Memphis.
05:47It was the fans.
05:48Elvis had a whirlwind couple of days in New York City.
05:52On October 28, 1956, the day before his recording session at Junco Studios, he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
05:59And it was there where he performed perhaps the most valuable service of his entire career.
06:05He very publicly got the polio vaccine.
06:08David Rose works as a historical consultant for the March of Dimes.
06:12The first mission was to find a solution to the problem of polio.
06:16It was a huge effort to make sure that teens got the message that you can't rock and roll with polio.
06:23And that was a tagline for all the brochures that the March of Dimes sent out after this famous shoot with Elvis getting his shot.
06:31In the spring of 1957, just a few months after his visit to New York, Elvis bought Graceland.
06:3823 million visitors and counting have made the pilgrimage there to get closer to a superstar who remains relevant to this day.
06:46Graceland is home to 1.5 million artifacts, soon to be 1.5 million and one.
06:52Angie plans to start using this clip that we found to help tell the world Elvis' story.
06:59It's a really unique piece of footage that has been found and that we're excited about displaying here at Graceland and sharing with the world.
07:10And Professor Hirsch from Brooklyn College told me that when Elvis took his mother to a private screening of Love Me Tender, she cried upon his character's death.
07:20And from that point on, he made it a condition of his movie contracts that he would never again be killed on screen.
07:28Oh, my goodness.
07:29Yeah, no one makes Elvis' mama cry.
07:32Wow, that was fascinating.
07:33From one little clip of video, all that information.
07:35You never know when you're going to walk past in New York City.
07:37Really fascinating.
07:38I know that block so well.
07:39That was amazing.
07:40Robert, good job.
07:41Peter, as well.
07:42Amazing.
07:42Max, everybody, great.