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Trying to find a copy of an old TV Movie

This is definitely a long shot, but I figured I'd start somewhere...

I saw today that Look Homeward, Angel entered the public domain. I remembered my dad really liking the book (and I remember bouncing off it myself years ago). In reading the Wikipedia article, I noticed there was a TV Movie made of the play adaptation in 1972. I thought, "Sure would be cool if I could find that movie somewhere. My dad might enjoy seeing it!"

What I'm stuck on: All searching I've done so far has just lead me to streaming services/etc. that have a page for the show (with the exact copy as the IMDb page...) but don't have the actual show to watch.

Does anyone know how to search further? I thought about reaching out to my local library (which I couldn't do today), but beyond that, I'm a bit stumped. Too trained on more recent/less obscure stuff, I guess.

Edit: The Paley Center maybe has something? (Although they said it was aired on CBS) https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=cbs&p=31&item=T79:0070

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Broadcast by NBC:

https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film529189.html

Maybe someone at NBC could help?

Nominated for a Golden Globe award in the category for Best TV Special:

https://wolfememorial.com/2016/06/genius-the-movie/

An IMDB comment suggests that it hasn't been converted to DVD, so it might not be commercially available in digital format.

These look like high school performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOkGfVuYUV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAE_0b-shMs

If you have a local film archive society, perhaps through a university or library, they might be able to help.

I wonder if someone in these subreddits would have a good lead:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MusicalBootlegs/

https://old.reddit.com/r/rarefilmclub/

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Have you checked the Internet Archive? I’ve found soooo much obscure media there but you have to play around with the filters a bit.

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