Today's Blind Items - Deathbed Confession

I'm calling this a deathbed confession, but in reality when this director died a couple of years ago, he didn't say anything, but he left behind a bunch of old film reels from some of his movies, including several from the first installment of his most famous movie. Prior to the internet, everyone who discussed the movie did so probably without actually having seen the movie. What were people dying was actually the work of actors and some not very good editing and camerawork. It was low budget and a long time ago, so that is understandable. There was also some footage that was not shot by the director, but bought from a news organization. With all of that being said, one of the scenes shot by the director is actually someone getting killed and the angles and outtakes in the unseen footage show for a fact there was an actual death. There is more footage of a death that didn't make it into the film. The fact that it is footage shows it wasn't bought, but actually filmed. That footage may or may not show a death. It looks like a death. People are reacting like it is a real death, but there are only a handful of people remaining on the planet who would know for sure, and they haven't been asked/found.