There are some clearly important, revelatory materials in the Romero archive, but sometimes the most entertaining bits are the ephemera. This utterly delightful doodle, signed by Romero and dated February 7, 1974, reprises a caveman design we've also found in a Latent Image Christmas Card (undated, but presumably December 1973). 

These sorts of seemingly random bits can be INCREDIBLY helpful for researchers, however. Because Romero dated this little bit of paper on producer Richard Rubinstein's stationary, that lets us date the rest of the info on the page: "WFL-Bruno." This blog will be posting more info and discussions of Romero's almost wholly unknown TV work from the 1970s in the coming weeks, but, briefly, he worked with Rubinstein to make a series of sports documentaries for television between 1973 and 1975. It was crucial to getting his career back on track after a series of flops (not to mention the lack of returns for Night of the Living Dead) left him in debt and unable to finance a new feature. "WFL" refers to a documentary on the World Football League, while "Bruno" refers to legendary Pittsburgh-based wrestler Bruno Sammartino. The latter film was directed by Romero, with interviews conducted by local newsman, horror host, wrestling enthusiast, and Night of the Living Dead actor "Chilly Billy" Bill Cardille, and it's a wonderful portrait of not just a performer but of the city. Thanks to this randomly saved bit of paper, we can now be reasonably certain that they were filming both simultaneously in February 1974. 

-Adam Charles Hart