Video Tour: Pittsburgh’s Horror Movie Icon: Inside Look at the George A. Romero Archives at the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library

From WTAE:

Ahead of Halloween, Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 got an inside look at the George A. Romero archives that are on public display at the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library.

Romero is the iconic director behind the 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead.”

“We wouldn’t have the zombie as we know it today without George’s influence,” said Ben Rudin, the horror studies collection coordinator for the University of Pittsburgh library system.

The collection of archives spans Romero’s entire career and also gives a glimpse at projects he had hoped to film but never got a chance to.

“When this collection came, I kind of expected we might see a few projects that he had abandoned or maybe didn’t get to finish,” said Rubin. “And there’s over 120 unproduced titles, so we see that he was constantly having new ideas, new stories to tell.”

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