What Was Sitting in a Kansas Salt Mine Might Change Your Mind About Elvis

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Feb 20, 2026 · 19m

Elvis Presley concert film EPIC starts with a question you've never thought to ask: what happened to 68 boxes of footage locked in a Kansas salt mine? You already know the Vegas Elvis, the jumpsuits, the karate kicks, the cape with the eagle on the back. What you haven't seen is what the camera caught when the audience was screaming and nobody was thinking about the archive.

After 1965, Elvis had almost nothing on the Billboard charts, except In the Ghetto. Then he stepped into a Las Vegas residency and did 1,100 shows, sometimes two or three a day. Baz Luhrmann's production team found this…