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The Great Lost Doors Movie Reveals 'How Jim Really Was' — rollingstone.com

In 1968, the Doors decided to chronicle their life on the road and commissioned a crew to document their in-progress tour. The band would produce the project itself; singer Jim Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek had met at UCLA's film school, so they reached out to some of their old campus cohorts. "We had some of our film-school buddies follow us around and shoot," says Doors guitarist Robby Krieger. "The idea was to make a documentary, a cinema verite kind of thing. [Jim and Ray] were all hot on the new kinds of movies that were coming out in the Sixties." According to Krieger, Morrison wanted the project to be a free-form, anything-goes look at the group, onstage and off. "He would say, 'The film is making itself.'"

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