While there is a lot of footage of classic professional wrestling matches and television programs in existence the fact remains that an enormous amount of footage has long since been lost or destroyed. Often, this was because master tapes were taped over because the belief was that there would never be a market for syndicating the reruns of the old programming. Great territories of old such as Los Angeles and Portland erased virtually all their footage prior to 1978. Then, there are those territories that archived their material, but never released or only released fragments of it. Championship Wrestling From Florida television programming from 1966 to 1987 is petty much complete and was stored in archives for years until being sold to the WWE where reruns air on the 24-7 Channel. Then, there are some amazing discoveries such as lost and rare footage that was believed to no longer exist such as these unique television promos from the 1960’s from the Pittsburgh territory. Considering that the Crusher promo also contains a slate board this must have come from the cutting room floor of the TV station as it is raw footage. This is probably the earliest promo in existence for Bruno Sammartino. I have never seen a promo from him prior to the 1970’s and this promo is clearly from the late 1960’s/ Also included is a rare interview by the legendary manager Wild Red Berry. The following link to footage is in shockingly good quality as it is rare footage from Montreal and features Andre the Giant during his first tour of North America in 1972 when he was known as Jean Ferre. It appears that Andre doesn’t speak any English at this time and this is the only known North American footage of Andre during his early years. (There is lots of Japanese footage from his 1972 tour of Japan where he was a heel under the name Monster Rousimoff) Embedding was disabled so check out the link at www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12F1luuHOI