JANELLE: HE IS A GROUNDBREAKING HORROR MOVIE DIRECTOR AND HE DID IT ALL RIGHT HERE IN PITTSBURGH. RYAN: THIS MORNING, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4 IS GETTING A LOOK INSIDE THE ARCHIVES OF THE LEGENDARY GEORGE A. ROMERO, A PUBLIC DISPLAY AT PITT’S HILLMAN LIBRARY THAT TAKES A DEEP DIVE INTO THE "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD" DIRECTOR’S STORIED HOLLYWOOD CAREER. >> THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBARA. RYAN: HE INVENTED THE ZOMBIE AS WE KNOW IT ON THE BIG SCREEN WITH HIS CLASSIC "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD." WRITER-DIRECTOR GEORGE A ROMERO WAS A TRAIL-BLAZER IN FILMMAKING AND HE DID IT ALL HERE IN PITTSBURGH. >> WE WOULDN’T HAVE THE ZOMBIE AS WE KNOW IT TODAY WITHOUT GEORGE’S INFLUENCE. REPORTER: PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4, GETTING AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE GEORGE A. ROMERO ARCHIVAL COLLECTION AT THE HILLMAN LIBRARY. THE COLLECTION SPANS THE LATE FILMMAKER’S ENTIRE CAREER. >> WE CAN GET A GLIMPSE INTO -- WE KNOW THE FINAL PRODUCT OF THESE FILMS, BUT THIS GIVES US SORT OF EVERYTHING THAT CAME BEFORE IT. HOW DID HE REVISE THAT STORY ALONG THE WAY. RYAN: BEN RUBIN IS THE HORROR STUDIES COLLECTION COORDINATOR FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH’S LIBRARY SYSTEM. HE SAYS THE COLLECTION OFFERS SOMETHING SURPRISING. >> 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. AND THERE’S OVER 120 UNPRODUCED TITLES, SO WE SEE THAT HE WAS CONSTANTLY WRITING, CONSTANTLY HAVING NEW IDEAS NEW STORIES TO , TELL. RYAN: RUBIN TOOK PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4 THROUGH THE COLLECTION, FROM MEMORABILIA TO MORE INSIGHT INTO THOSE UNMADE ROMERO MOVIES. >> WE ALSO SEE SOME MATERIALS FROM AN UNMADE BIGFOOT FILM THAT GEORGE WANTED TO MAKE IN THE 1970’S. AND ONE THAT HE HOPED FRANCO HARRIS HIMSELF WOULD HAVE STARRED IN. WHICH I CAN ONLY IMAGINE IN THE -- WOULD HAVE MADE THE FILM A 1876 HUGE HIT. RYAN: THE COLLECTION ALSO SHOWS ROMERO’S TIES TO PITTSBURGH AND THE LEGACY HE LEFT ON THE FILMMAKING INDUSTRY IN OUR CITY. >> I DON’T THINK WE’D HAVE ANY FILMMAKING INDUSTRY IN PITTSBURGH WITHOUT GEORGE. I THINK HIS EARLY WORK AT BRINGING FILM HERE, THE IDEA THAT YOU COULD BE A PITTSBURGH FILMMAKER IS THE REASON WE STILL SEE FILMS BEING MADE HERE. THE REASON WHY HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTIONS COME HERE TO FILM. RYAN: SO INCREDIBLY INFLUENTIAL. I KNOW THAT FANS AND ALSO FILMMAKERS ALIKE COULD SPEND HOURS THERE LOOKING AT THOSE ARCHIVES. JANELLE: EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT INTO HORROR FILMS COME YOU CAN APPRECIATE HIM PUTTING PITTSBURGH ON THE MAP. INTERESTING STORY. RYAN