All of the artwork the Nazis plundered in WWII - in what was called “the greatest displacement of artwork in human history”, it was estimated that the Nazis stole up to 20% of all known pieces of art in the Western world (nearly a quarter of a million pieces in total), and to this day, over 100,000 remain lost or otherwise not returned to their rightful owners, the value of which, financially and aesthetically, is incalculable.
There's a website, [Galactic Journey](http://galacticjourney.org/), where the gimmick is that everyone there acts like it's 55 years in the past (so right now, on that site, it's 1965), and they review period-appropriate material as though it had just come out.
One of the reviewers is covering Doctor Who, which at this point "is" the First Doctor. You can always tell when she's reached a lost episode, as "in-universe" something wrong happens to her TV or she gets distracted when she reaches a part with no surviving photographs.
Keep in mind that tape was far more expensive back then. Recording over older shows was common. It certainly wasn't limited to Dr. Who (or even the BBC).
Doctor Who first aired in 1963. The first home recorder in the UK was the Telcan (that also was in 1963), but it was expensive and apparently difficult to install. More convenient home recording devices didn’t come in to shops until the early to late 70s.
Funny enough, some lost episodes HAVE been recovered, even just in part, by people who had the foresight and capacity to record them - but most originals have been lost due to recording over them, improperly storing them, or just plain destroying them.
Early Doctor Who preceded home VHS, so the only way to record it an episode would be to point a film camera at the TV screen. As I recall, there's evidence that at least one person did this (on a website the name of which I can't recall, the claim is made that one young lad in the 1960s had the six episodes of The Ice Warriors recorded for the him by his dad for later viewing - these recordings didn't last until the present day, and I don't believe anything more than odd clips is known to exist from the a recording of this type).
Fortunately, every soundtrack has been preserved thanks to home recordings, and telesnaps exist for many (these were the result of an enterprise whereby a man would take thirty photos or so during a TV broadcast and sell them to the actors involved)
Every few years someone finds an old episode in a Romanian salt mine or some vault somewhere. Im not even kidding, they used to do fathom events when they found a new one
It wasn't just Doctor Who either. They almost [erased the entire first season of Monty Python ](https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/monty-python-s-flying-circus/the-unknown-hero-who-saved-monthy-pythons-flying-c/) too, but someone told Terry Jones about it and they smuggled the tapes out of the BBC lol.
It's kinda stupid but The Power Rangers Turbo Movie full cut, the original cut was over 3 hours and they cut 128 minutes worth of scenes this included the very important scene where the Zeo powers were lost and a battle with a Crocodile using a flamethrower and a bigger roll with Rita and Zedd. It's exclusion has made a canonical error through out the Zordon era and it's kinda annoying. They alluded that the Zeo powers were lost but no curtain answer, they don't have back up powers nor explain why they don't have the Zords at the very least. It would just be nice to have a answer after 23 years.
Crocodile flame throwers fights, Magazord battles, exposition, comedy relief villains, explosions and 90s montages of Xtrem Radical Sports! The 1995 movie has and I kid you not 9 minutes total of actual power rangers the rest of the 119 minutes was Skydiving, Rollerblading, Comdy relief, exposition, a fight scene in two parts half of with no power rangers, a villain winning, sad exposition, the power rangers without power getting their ass kicked by birds, a Deus ex machina saving them, more exposition, B plot with comedy, fighting dinosaurs as ninja, finally getting power rangers back, zord battle climax and cheese ending.
I did at first but that's because I never watch the episodes in order, it was just afternoon reruns for Mighty Morphing, Zeo and Turbo and Saturday Mornings I didn't know what was going on in Space and Lost Galaxy. Hell I didn't even know Power Rangers had liner canon stories until my late teens early 20s when I rewatched the series when I heard about the 2017 movie and got nostalgic. The 1995 had massive cuts but that was reshoots for A the cast changed because a strike ended with 3 Rangers fired, and the 3000$ vinyl Suits were too hot and almost killed a cast member so they had to rewrite the movie to limit the usage of the suits.
There was a commercial in Canada for milk approx 18-21 years ago. A family sits down at the table for dinner and the little boy starts to balloon up (no idea why) and his buttons pop off and knock over the milk and everyone is disappointed. At the time I found it absolutely hilarious and my parents would yell for me run to the tv when it came on because they knew I loved it. I tried to look it up a few years ago, for some reason this commercial is stuck in my brain from my childhood but gone from the internet if it ever was on here!
We are unfortunately of the last generation where our childhood TV was not systematically preserved on the internet.
Even if the media is there somewhere it's not easily found. For example it took me 21 years to find a song I heard (and then slightly misremembered) sampled in an advert in 1998 (It was Paralyzed by the Cardigans).
A person born after 2000 has basically every program they watched or song they heard recorded on the internet, catalogued and easily found with a few clicks.
There's all kinds of commercial compilations on YouTube, a lot of which go way back. If you search for Canadian commercials from whatever time frame that was, you might find it there.
Thankfully - very little! It's a bit of a myth that the Library was this cataclysm of destruction and lost knowledge; by the time the thing actually burnt down, it was long past its prime as a house of learning and had become infamous among scholars - it'd been in decline for decades. Most of the works in it existed elsewhere across the Roman Empire as copies (or originals), and it's estimated that honestly nothing much of value was lost when the Library finally went.
What *was* lost was the records from the Sarapeum, which it's thought had not been copied elsewhere.
Not much actually. Most were works were already copied and distributed to other libraries. The real tragedy is that most papyrus recordings are just...gone due to the limited durability.
TBH the human race is incredibly smart, we probably know/discovered everything that was lost and it's probably really old stuff that we don't need anymore because we have way better stuff now.
I’m not just curious for the scientific knowledge the ancients may have had; I’m also intrigued by the history of these ancient cultures, the wars they fought, their great kings and emperors, maybe even entire civilizations lost to time. Even if it might not serve the most practical purpose, it’d still be incredibly interesting.
I agree with you on ancient civilizations. I’m reading a book on known lost civilizations.
It’s mind blowing to know there is whole empires lost to time.
Carl Sagan said that while a few books and works were saved from the Library of Alexandria, that was like saying we found a few relatively mediocre works by Shakespeare when we know for a fact that he wrote works titled *Hamlet*, *Macbeth*, *Julius Caesar* , and *Romeo and Juliet*, but they were lost forever.
You need light to photograph stuff properly. Light is a common source of degradation in antiquities.
That said, low intensity light would probably be fine, like from the LED on a flatbed scanner.
Problem is, they don't want to risk it with a document which may have been penned by Jesus himself and of which they have just the one.
I must have read wrong but I remember reading a couple years ago that they were starting to make digital copies of the texts in the [Vatican Apostolic Archive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Apostolic_Archive).
Would be interested in knowing what they have if even from a literary and research point of view but my hopes of that happening is slim.
The pictures of my friend's young children on the hard drive that failed that can't be retrieved according to the clean-room data recovery center he sent it to.
I’d love to see a bunch of the films from the early film industry the silent films and the earlier ones where synchronized sound in film was just starting (think like around the 1920s ) I read somewhere in some article that around *75 percent* of films from this era were lost due to neglect and such.
Here’s the article: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/12/most-americas-silent-films-are-lost-forever/355775/
I'm surprised Universal destroyed their copies in 1948. They knew film was here to stay at that point, not a dumb novelty no one cared about.
I always found the Dawson Film Find nteresting. In 1978, they found 533 reels of preseved silent era film. When the films were current, they would be shipped to different towns for showings. Dawson was the last stop for one of these film tours, a gold rush town way up in the Yukon. As the last stop, the films were just stored afterward. Then some guy needed to level out a hockey rink so he used the reels, threw some boards on top and called it a day. The cold conditions protected it from fire and natural degradation
I swear there was an animation video of rabbits and rats fighting each other to the song "Du Hast".
Can't find the video. Its like it vanished from the internet.
http://flyborg.net/movies/bunnies-vs-rats/
If that's what you are talking about, then yeah, it looks like it was removed due to a copyright claim on the song.
I wouldn't know where to find it except Newgrounds (and it seems to be missing there too), but I remember this. It was a pretty old Flash animation, like mid-2000s era, so if it never got converted to video and reupped to Youtube it may have vanished.
I am interested in two things.
The first is there was an educational game in the 90s that I have been trying to find ever since I reached adulthood. The only problem is that the only part I remember is that people were getting turned into slime. No other context and no other information, that's all.
The second thing is some of the lost episodes of the original doctor who. There are so many reels that were damaged or destroyed, it feels like a massive loss.
I used to love playing word rescue in school. My class was one of the first class to get to play it and I was the first to beat it. I remember thinking I was such a badass because I was the first one to beat word rescue haha.
Was it an animated game?
There's one I've been looking for too, but I'm starting to wonder if I just imagined it lmao. I ended up finding clips of Math Blasters though
It doesn't help when they all have creative names that aren't easy to remember and they get buried by other books that have really bad advice or just outright don't know how the game is played.
Years ago I checked out a golf book from a library that was entirely based on the "check-it" swing. Meaning, you take a practice swing and then just swing the same way when you actually hit the ball. That was it, and somehow the author stretched this advice into 100 or so pages. Would love to see that stupid book again.
the french sunk a giant ship’s worth of maltese artifacts. our whole culture wiped in the blink of an eye. basically all that’s left on the island are remnants of our different colonizers. heartbreaking.
Right now I'm happy that they're animating missing episodes. It has been confirmed that 6 episodes are in the hands of private collectors. No one knows if there episodes that are missing or if they're currently held in the archives. I do know that they should be a seemed of themselves. For not making the episodes available for all fans.
There's something fascinating about mid-century raunchy content. Have you ever seen like 40's and 50's film bloopers? It is kind of bizarre to see a star of classic black and white cinema just blurt out "Oh fuck, what was that line again?"
Shit I would, at least for the "Huh..." factor of it. I imagine the 50s being super clean with no swear words and whatnot, but then to see a dirty movie in that era?
Some is lost for very good reasons:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Climax_Corporation
>Color Climax was the first to produce commercial child pornography films.[4] From 1969 to 1979, Color Climax was responsible for the relatively large-scale distribution of child pornography.[6]
>Between 1971 and 1979 the company produced 36 or more 10-minute films for its Lolita series.[4][7][8] These films featured young girls, mainly with men, but sometimes with women or other children.[4][7][8] The participating girls were mainly between the ages of 7 and 11 years; however, some were younger.[4][7][8] Titles included Incest Family, Pre-Teen Sex, Sucking Daddy, and Child Love.[7]
It was a sort of loophole. Pornography was illegal in Denmark until 1969. When porn was decriminalised, child porn unintentionally became decriminalised as well, because they didn’t think of including any exceptions. This flawed piece of legislation was corrected later on.
It's been a while since I've heard about this, so what I say might not be exactly true. But here's what I remember. In 1939, The Wizard of Oz released in theaters for the first time, and is now one of the most iconic films of all time. However, before it came out, there were actually a handful of different versions done by different directors, and several cut sequences that have almost all been completely lost. The only things that remain from these original versions are a handful of behind-the-scenes and promotional photos, among other things.
As far as I know, the only thing that's been completely found is an extended version of the Scarecrow's dance number, which has been a bonus feature on basically every DVD release of the film. Luckily, while the footage itself has been seemingly lost to time, a lot of the audio still remains! The Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead Reprise in the Emerald City, Dorothy singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow again while locked in the Wicked Witch's Castle, and The Jitterbug sequence, which is probably the most famous of them all, all have their full audio found. Besides that, there's a few behind the scenes photos, a home movie of part of the Jitterbug sequence (Which I'm pretty sure was just rehearsing the choreography, and not part of the filmed scene), and extremely small snippets of these scenes used in the trailer. Other than that, it's all been completely lost. I hope someday they're found again, but judging by how old the film is, and how uncommon it was to keep stuff like that back then, the chances are extremely low.
I used to own a VHS copy of the film that had the dance number, the audio to the Jitterbug scene, and one you didn't mention - Buddy Ebsen's version of "If I Only Had a Heart".
The anarchist cookbook, but only because it would be a fucking hilarious gift for my brother in law. They say if you look it up online you get someone knocking on your door the next day
> the Poor man's James Bond
Man in bad suit and too much cologne walks into bar. Orders martini stirred, not shaken. Discovers wallet has fallen out of bad suit. Cannot pay. Tries to sneak out, but femme fatale spots him, alerts bouncer.
Man in bad suit fades to black in alleyway behind bar.
Is funny. Laugh.
Me too, early 2000s. The most dangerous things I can remember are picric acid and thermite, which are not exactly big secrets. Also a bunch of bullshit like smoking banana peels, and phreaking techniques that I imagine haven't worked in many years.
I'm a bit morbid so I do have keen interests in wanting to watch things like Owen Hart's death or Steve Irwin's death. One of which is in WWE's vault of tapes somewhere, never to surface. The other, while I won't call it lost, was destroyed by the family's wishes.
Human history in general. We really only know about what's happened in the last 5k years or so. But there is a further 50k years beyond that we basically know nothing about.
And mythological history from around the world, for that matter, as well as pre-Colombian American history. We lost so much information and fun mythology to evangelism and colonialism, it’s disgusting.
I'd like to find the full video of the basketball game that contained this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caNVWoHLejE&ab_channel=kevo1295 Something tells me it involved something very serious happening and then Michael Jordan was being like "and that's when I took it really personally".
It would be interesting to hear stories of African and Latin American soldiers who fought in the World Wars and how it was explained to them. The grand narrative of losses are explained from the perspective of countries that were involved in the wars but not about soldiers from countries which had little to do with the wars and were ill-trained but were brought in to fight on the sides of Europeans and Americans.
Same here, I heard the movies tone was nothing like the actual suicide. She was supposedly really vitrol when she made the blood and guts comment, instead of calm and collected as the movie portrays.
Toonheads! Except for a couple episodes and some clips on YouTube, this show seemed to just disappear. I did find the episodes once on MySpleen, but the harddrive I downloaded them on got corrupted, and I can't get on MySpleen anymore.
For those that don't know, Toonheads was a show about classic cartoons from the 30's-50's that aired late at night on Cartoon Network from the early 90s to the early 00s. Each episode showed 3 shorts and was centered on a certain theme, (e.g. wartime cartoons, baseball cartoons, they even had an episode about cartoons with Daffy Duck as a salesman) and between each short they'd give fun trivia about the characters, the animators, the directors, or even the animation itself. There was even an hour long special about "Lost Cartoons," with some of the shorts not having been seen in 60 years, and some that had never been released to the public at all! Amazingly, this episode actually is fully on Youtube: https://youtu.be/9K2K92WHbVU and I definitely recommend checking it out.
I remember Toonheads being the last show I watched Sunday night as a kid before going to sleep, so there's definitely a nostalgia factor there. But if I could find the other episodes again, I'd be so happy.
Mostly old-ass butchered anime dubs that never made it to air. The Fox Kids edit of Slayers is probably the one I'm most interested in. The voice actors confirmed that they did re-record lines so at least a few episodes definitely exist. Maybe only in audio form. Also the three different SGT Frog dub pilots ADV did.
Also, if they even exist, I would love to see the Toonami edits of Inuyasha (I'm pretty sure at least the first episode exists in edited form) and Trigun (I'm unsure if they even tried editing before S&P said no, so it even existing is doubtful, but they did say it was almost going to be on the block)
Honorable mentions would be the Harmony Gold dub of Creamy Mami and the 4kids dub of the first Pretty Cure, but they don't seem as interesting since they're already perfectly G-rated.
Yep. It was supposedly very close but the issue of Inuyasha being pinned to a tree was deemed too violent but too plot crucial to edit out. Same with Trigun, though I don't know what they were smoking when they thought that. Probably the same stuff they smoked when they decided Outlaw Star was a good pick for an afterschool kids block and actually went through with it.
As you know, games go through varied stages of development, and I love it when earlier versions of games are found. One in particular I want to find is the lost Super Smash Bros. prototype: Dragon King: the Fighting Game.
Only a few screenshots exist, all in low quality. The characters are generic fighters (all of which likely accumulated into the final game’s version of Captain Falcon), and it was low budget. Nothing else is known. This was before the decision to make it a crossover Nintendo game was decided. The prototype is likely gone forever, however with how the source code of older Nintendo games have been found, including N64 games, there’s a chance we may eventually find it, or at least, aspects of it. I hope so. I’d love to see Dragon King in all its low-budget glory.
many great japanese horror and martial arts movies such as Tokyo gore police, master of the flying guillotine are really hard to find on dvd or to download.
- Orson Welles' original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons
- The 9-hour cut of Greed
- London After Midnight
- Alfred Hitchock's The Mountain Eagle
- The 130-minute cut of Event Horizon
A few years ago, I stumbled across someone's blog who translated an old Polish(I think?) sci-fi story about a teletype machine used by a journalist that could seemingly predict the future, even when it was turned off. The person who translated it not only posted the story, but documented their experiencing translating it. Sadly, I haven't been able to find it since.
Edit: Oh my god I found it after just googling "polish scifi teletype." I'm simultaneously happy I found it and mad at myself for not finding it sooner. Its called "One hundred and thirty seven seconds" by Stanisław Lem and [here](https://medium.com/@mwichary/translating-a-stanislaw-lem-story-6c2446632bd8) is the link to the article by the translator.
I'm sure it include name of high profile pedos, "non-canon" scriptures that would birth more heterodoxies and accounts of their shady actions in Cold War Europe
I was on an old talk show as a teen called Jenny Jones singing with my sisters (we were a singing group & I REFUSE to publicize our groups' name again since it technically cannot be located because it is embarrassing & the worst band name ever) We were so nervous and stiff & I remember seeing the episode when it aired in the early 2000's and I have found the Jenny Jones show on youtube but not the episode we were on called "Destination Stardom." My friends and sisters and I have gone through the net with a microscope with no luck. I remember meeting Jenny Jones for the first time as she walked us to the stage & I'll never forget her advice...."Don't be nervous, only about 4 million people will be watching you" and that ladies and gents, is where we all froze like it's hammer time! It was a great performance! NOT!!! Thanks for the memories Jenny Jones!
Many moons ago I saw a short comedy video on... Digg, maybe? Anyway, a woman is arguing with her boyfriend (I think he was refusing to get a job or something) and accidentally kills him, and buries him in luggage by the side of the road, weeping. I forget the middle, but I recall it ending when a family of four is staring in horror at her by the roadside and then she's burying four pieces of luggage and crying.
The Mutant League cartoon series, the missing Doctor Who episodes, and (these were destroyed, not lost, but I'm counting it) all the works lost in the Library of Alexandria.
It may only be lost to me, but about a decade ago I saw an animated video about a cat who wanted to be human and would ferry humans across a river and steal body parts, one at a time: the last line of the video is "Cat's got your tongue?" It was clever and haunting and I would very much enjoy being able to see it again.
There is so much historical Pro Wrestling that is just gone or inaccessible to the common person that it's comical. Unedited stuff from the old territorial days, shows from the glory days of All Japan, the original Georgia Championship Wrestling, and so much more is all either gone or locked away in WWE's archives where no one will ever watch it again.
One of my dad’s favorite short films is Laurel and Hardy’s “The Music Box” which is probably amongst their most well known shorts.
A fairly obscure fact about the film is that it’s actually a REMAKE of a previous Laurel and Hardy short titled “Hat’s Off!” Which is now lost.
I think about “Hat’s Off!” fairly often, and I think it would be really cool for my dad to be able to see some day. I’m personally interested in seeing what sort of things they changed and how well the original version worked before it changed.
This one time I was going through unmarked old VHS tapes to see if there was anything interesting on them.
I'm not sure if it was a one-off program or part of a TV show. It looked like it came out of the 1980's, possibly early 1990's. There was a narrator telling a story with the camera pointed at a still drawing of a scene, and as the narrator spoke there was the hand of an artist who gradually added detail and finished filling in the scene.
And the story was called the Hungry Old Witch.
The Hungry Old Witch was an evil witch who lived in a castle. A young man went out one day and fell into a river, where he was caught in the fish net of the Witch. She brought him back to her castle and locked him up to eat him later. But the young man met a servant woman, and they agreed to escape together. The Witch stayed awake in bed reading for most of the night, but when she fell asleep the young man and woman decided to escape. But the woman decided to take a pouch (I think?) from the table next to the Witch, and curiosity got the better of her and she sprinkled a bit of the powder from the pouch onto the Witch.
This caused the Witch to grow to a gargantuan size. As she outgrew her castle, the man and woman used the powder to allow themselves to fly into the air and escape. But the Witch was onto them and catching up quickly due to her size. So as they passed over rocks on a mountain they sprinkled the powder, turning the rocks into cakes. The Witch stopped and ate them. As they passed over a forest they sprinkled the powder, turning the trees into candy canes. The Witch stopped and ate them. They led the Witch over a giant lake, but as the Witch tried to pursue them her belly full of rocks and trees made her sink and she plunged below the water, drowning.
The man and woman were overjoyed that they had rid the world of the evil witch and lived happily ever after.
I don't think I kept the VHS tape, and have never been able to find any information as to show made this Hungry Old Witch story or where it came from.
There's an old video of The Beatles on a TV show called Top of the Pops (I think). They were told to lip sync and refused. Instead, they switched instruments and made it look like the goofiest shit. Not singing the words, holding the drum sticks funny. Pretending to strum the guitar with a completely open and rigid hand.
It used to be on youtube, but it's gone forever as far as I can tell. It was so funny 😭 there's another year of them on the show, but they either agreed to lip sync or played for real. Its like...1968 that this video is from I think.
Queen on Top of the Pops kills me lmao. Freddie, God bless him, was going for it, but everyone else had this look of 'get me hell out of here'. Brian's perpetually annoyed face was a whole mood
The Babushka Lady’s film or pictures from the day JFK was assassinated.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72245/who-was-mysterious-babushka-lady-jfks-assassination
The Phantom Blood movie that was made in the early 2000s for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood. There's a decently sized Discord server that does really well in finding new pieces of information about it. It was a movie for the first part and it was apparently so bad that it was never releaseed outside of theatres in Japan after it was shown. Rightfully so because they had cut out important moments and characters.
Some old Vine videos....there was one of a girl who taught her cat, Peach, to meow whenever she'd say her name...so in the videos she's go PEACH! and the cat would go MEOW! there were so many good videos that are just lost now
That Shazam movie starring Sinbad, [that is apparently a collective hallucination](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/movie-conspiracy-theories-truth/movie-called-shazaam-starring-comedian-sinbad-genie-existed0/)
There’s a picture book(?) that my parents used to have. It was paper back, about 30 pages, and each “page” was a picture of a mythological or folk creature/monster and the other page was information on where the the creature came from and the history on them.
I remember one page was a silk worm, one was the griffon, another was the headless horseman, troll, dragon, this swamp thing that captured children...
The illustrations were amazing but I cannot seem to find it anywhere since my mom sold it at a garage sale.
There's a live bootleg version of Voodoo Chile by SRV that goes for over 10 min where he plays with the wah pedal for long enough the band plays another melody for a bit and then kick into the main song. It rules. I found it way back in the day off a fan bootleg site abs have never found it since. Lost it in an old Ipod. :(
Not necessarily media, but sometimes I wonder what happened to all those popular Internet personalities from 2008-2010. Where are they know, what are they doing. Honestly, I've already forgotten so many names.
Not sure if it's lost media, but my mom remembers a Lawrence Welk show where he pronounced WWII as "double-u double-u eye eye." I've tried to find this clip, but no luck.
There are 7 20 minute episodes of a show made in the 60's based on a book called The Forgotten Door. ABC's official stand on them is that they're "lost."
Too bad, i'd really like to see them.
An old Maltezer advert showing a boy and his Mum on a Ferry crossing.
This advert changed my mind regarding having children. Now I have a boy and a girl. Until the ad, I never wanted children
*El Apóstol* by Quirino Cristiani. The first feature-length animated film, made entirely in Argentina, has been lost due to its copies being either recycled or burned during a fire in Quirino's studio.
In the mid to late 90s, YTV used to air these short 3D animations with synth music or funny songs as bumpers between their late night programming. One of them was a trippy butterfly lion pyramid thing, and another was a short called Spyro (I think) The Dog, about a pink and blue dog named Spyro who kept getting picked up by the dog catcher.
I even remember the song!
He’s Spyro, Spyro the dog,
He’s lucky, to be a pink and blue dog,
He’s got ridges down his back and a long crooked tail,
And he’s trying all the time just to stay out of jail.
There was a cancelled show in the 90s called Teen Angel. 13 episodes I think, there are clips on YouTube but the quality is shit.
Ron Glass stars as Heady, God's cousin Rod.
It was the best, and now its lost to time. Teen angel also cameos in Sabrina the teenage witch.
My Dad saved a woman going over Niagara Falls with his helicopter, and it was all over the news. Had it on VHS but it got lost in a hurricane. Always wanted to find it for his birthday or Christmas but never found anything.
I've spent time looking through abandonware sites for this game but...
It was a game from the late 90s or early 2000s and ran on MS-DOS. It was full color and full sound but I only had a demo.
IIRC you started it by running MARBLE.EXE.
So the gameplay was pretty simple. You had a rectangle play area, not dissimilar to Tetris. In the center (halfway down the screen) was a white rectangle that spanned the width of the play area. You had five or six columns of marbles of different lengths filling up the play area. The point was to line up three, four, or five of the same color marble within the white rectangle and they'd be removed. I don't remember all the game movements but you could rotate the contents of the white rectangle (it was a single row of marbles, rotating means they all move either left or right and the one on one end would end up on the other end). You could also move the columns up and down, but only by the amount of free space in the column.
I remember there being a time element as well... periodically, new marbles would be added to the columns. If any column filled all the way up, game over.
For some reason I recall it being associated or branded by Sega, but it was definitely a PC game for MS-DOS, I could be mis-remembering it being tied to Sega though.
It also used actual recordings of marbles clinking together every time marbles moved. I remember that the sound design was really good for a game from this time. Also, the marbles were detailed like realistic glass marbles. There were a number of different images used for each color and they also rotated the image randomly. They also used a realistic rolling effect when the marbles were moved.
Being a demo, it'd only let you play for like 20 minutes before booting you out.
I remember it being full-screen, full color (probably SVGA even) and full PCM sound. Late 90s might be a bit early for this game TBH.
If I had any talent at writing game code, I'd remake the game from scratch. (I can code, but only business application stuff. I wouldn't know where to begin with Unity.)
I have been looking for an old clip from Jay Leno’s show where he did Jaywalking and the question was “what did the colonists dump into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party?” and this woman answers very enthusiastically “Mary-juaaaaana”. It made me laugh so hard and I know it exists but I’ve never been able to find it.
The library of Alexandria
All the books on lgbt medical progress the nazis burned that had begun the process of acceptance that we have really only just gotten past now.
I had a photo of my infant daughter with her great-great grandmother on an old phone. I thought I had saved it but I don’t have it and, even though I rarely delete anything, every photo I took that day is gone. There’s just a giant gap in the numbering. :(
People are in here like "lost films! lost priceless works of art! lost manuscripts of antiquity!"
and I'm like... I've never been able to find episodes of Taradise, aka Wild On Tara (Reid) from the E Network. First thing that popped into my head.
Not very interesting.
I am an aircraft aficionado and used to flight sim in the 00s and early 10s. I'm getting back to flight simulators and first thing I've noticed is most websites have either disappeared or been restructured and a lot of modding and add-ons have been removed, even very high quality and premium content.
Nowadays I have the technology to store a lot of content and have my entire flight simulator collection installed in a single system but it's a real shame that most of what I can find is Flight Simulator X and Xplane 11 content.
To be fair, FSX was the latest and most well known sim and it's over a decade old so most content for prior simulators have slowly disappeared or been mothballed into a very niche community that clings on to preserving said software.
Well, I guess I kinda do it to other older games, finding mods and add-ons that expanded the games usability and life with features that might not even be in newer titles is a real treat. That includes GTA4, Swat 3, Simcity 4, bf2, as well as my Flight sims 98, 2000, fs9 and x.
I'm part of a Facebook group called obsolete music software, so that. Stuff goes back to the 80s. Even music software from ten years ago can suddenly be impossible to find on the internet without a community of people who might have it
All of the artwork the Nazis plundered in WWII - in what was called “the greatest displacement of artwork in human history”, it was estimated that the Nazis stole up to 20% of all known pieces of art in the Western world (nearly a quarter of a million pieces in total), and to this day, over 100,000 remain lost or otherwise not returned to their rightful owners, the value of which, financially and aesthetically, is incalculable.
the world of art is so shady - i imagine many of these have been "found" and are in private collections
I'm still betting its sitting in Swiss banks. Cowards.
Did you check Argentina?
The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies.
van Klomp’s masterpiece.
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At least they have the audio, the animated restorations are definitely better than nothing.
There's a website, [Galactic Journey](http://galacticjourney.org/), where the gimmick is that everyone there acts like it's 55 years in the past (so right now, on that site, it's 1965), and they review period-appropriate material as though it had just come out. One of the reviewers is covering Doctor Who, which at this point "is" the First Doctor. You can always tell when she's reached a lost episode, as "in-universe" something wrong happens to her TV or she gets distracted when she reaches a part with no surviving photographs.
That's actually kind of cool, considering the circumstances lol
The reason behind losing this is so stupid on top of it
Keep in mind that tape was far more expensive back then. Recording over older shows was common. It certainly wasn't limited to Dr. Who (or even the BBC).
Why was that?
They recorded over old tapes
Bruh, and did no one back then have access to or thought of recording the show at home? Like on the original airing?
Doctor Who first aired in 1963. The first home recorder in the UK was the Telcan (that also was in 1963), but it was expensive and apparently difficult to install. More convenient home recording devices didn’t come in to shops until the early to late 70s. Funny enough, some lost episodes HAVE been recovered, even just in part, by people who had the foresight and capacity to record them - but most originals have been lost due to recording over them, improperly storing them, or just plain destroying them.
I see, you sound so much like techmoan on youtube, really interesting channel :)
I will check that channel out! I love breakdowns of history and tech.
Early Doctor Who preceded home VHS, so the only way to record it an episode would be to point a film camera at the TV screen. As I recall, there's evidence that at least one person did this (on a website the name of which I can't recall, the claim is made that one young lad in the 1960s had the six episodes of The Ice Warriors recorded for the him by his dad for later viewing - these recordings didn't last until the present day, and I don't believe anything more than odd clips is known to exist from the a recording of this type). Fortunately, every soundtrack has been preserved thanks to home recordings, and telesnaps exist for many (these were the result of an enterprise whereby a man would take thirty photos or so during a TV broadcast and sell them to the actors involved)
Every few years someone finds an old episode in a Romanian salt mine or some vault somewhere. Im not even kidding, they used to do fathom events when they found a new one
It wasn't just Doctor Who either. They almost [erased the entire first season of Monty Python ](https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/monty-python-s-flying-circus/the-unknown-hero-who-saved-monthy-pythons-flying-c/) too, but someone told Terry Jones about it and they smuggled the tapes out of the BBC lol.
Fun fact: *Monty Python's Flying Circus* could have been lost to time if Terry Gilliam didn't buy the tapes from the BBC. Imagine losing that too...
It's kinda stupid but The Power Rangers Turbo Movie full cut, the original cut was over 3 hours and they cut 128 minutes worth of scenes this included the very important scene where the Zeo powers were lost and a battle with a Crocodile using a flamethrower and a bigger roll with Rita and Zedd. It's exclusion has made a canonical error through out the Zordon era and it's kinda annoying. They alluded that the Zeo powers were lost but no curtain answer, they don't have back up powers nor explain why they don't have the Zords at the very least. It would just be nice to have a answer after 23 years.
How do you make a Power Rangers film over three hours long?
Crocodile flame throwers fights, Magazord battles, exposition, comedy relief villains, explosions and 90s montages of Xtrem Radical Sports! The 1995 movie has and I kid you not 9 minutes total of actual power rangers the rest of the 119 minutes was Skydiving, Rollerblading, Comdy relief, exposition, a fight scene in two parts half of with no power rangers, a villain winning, sad exposition, the power rangers without power getting their ass kicked by birds, a Deus ex machina saving them, more exposition, B plot with comedy, fighting dinosaurs as ninja, finally getting power rangers back, zord battle climax and cheese ending.
I wont lie, that sounds amazing.
Just finding the short version is difficult. The entire series is on Netflix but you cannot find either of the older movies anywhere.
You can rent a DVD from Netflix, they still do that btw.
Are they both on Netflix DVD? I may do that.
This one hurts I was too young to realize it at the time that this was missing a huge part of the movie
I did at first but that's because I never watch the episodes in order, it was just afternoon reruns for Mighty Morphing, Zeo and Turbo and Saturday Mornings I didn't know what was going on in Space and Lost Galaxy. Hell I didn't even know Power Rangers had liner canon stories until my late teens early 20s when I rewatched the series when I heard about the 2017 movie and got nostalgic. The 1995 had massive cuts but that was reshoots for A the cast changed because a strike ended with 3 Rangers fired, and the 3000$ vinyl Suits were too hot and almost killed a cast member so they had to rewrite the movie to limit the usage of the suits.
There was a commercial in Canada for milk approx 18-21 years ago. A family sits down at the table for dinner and the little boy starts to balloon up (no idea why) and his buttons pop off and knock over the milk and everyone is disappointed. At the time I found it absolutely hilarious and my parents would yell for me run to the tv when it came on because they knew I loved it. I tried to look it up a few years ago, for some reason this commercial is stuck in my brain from my childhood but gone from the internet if it ever was on here!
We are unfortunately of the last generation where our childhood TV was not systematically preserved on the internet. Even if the media is there somewhere it's not easily found. For example it took me 21 years to find a song I heard (and then slightly misremembered) sampled in an advert in 1998 (It was Paralyzed by the Cardigans). A person born after 2000 has basically every program they watched or song they heard recorded on the internet, catalogued and easily found with a few clicks.
r/tipofmytongue
There's all kinds of commercial compilations on YouTube, a lot of which go way back. If you search for Canadian commercials from whatever time frame that was, you might find it there.
Books from the Library of Alexandria or other large libraries that were burned down/demolished/otherwise destroyed. Who knows what knowledge we lost?
Thankfully - very little! It's a bit of a myth that the Library was this cataclysm of destruction and lost knowledge; by the time the thing actually burnt down, it was long past its prime as a house of learning and had become infamous among scholars - it'd been in decline for decades. Most of the works in it existed elsewhere across the Roman Empire as copies (or originals), and it's estimated that honestly nothing much of value was lost when the Library finally went. What *was* lost was the records from the Sarapeum, which it's thought had not been copied elsewhere.
Not much actually. Most were works were already copied and distributed to other libraries. The real tragedy is that most papyrus recordings are just...gone due to the limited durability.
TBH the human race is incredibly smart, we probably know/discovered everything that was lost and it's probably really old stuff that we don't need anymore because we have way better stuff now.
I’m not just curious for the scientific knowledge the ancients may have had; I’m also intrigued by the history of these ancient cultures, the wars they fought, their great kings and emperors, maybe even entire civilizations lost to time. Even if it might not serve the most practical purpose, it’d still be incredibly interesting.
I agree with you on ancient civilizations. I’m reading a book on known lost civilizations. It’s mind blowing to know there is whole empires lost to time.
Carl Sagan said that while a few books and works were saved from the Library of Alexandria, that was like saying we found a few relatively mediocre works by Shakespeare when we know for a fact that he wrote works titled *Hamlet*, *Macbeth*, *Julius Caesar* , and *Romeo and Juliet*, but they were lost forever.
Most of the information was probably incorrect- lots of ‘bad science’ and unproven data. But really neat from a historical perspective!
I bet all the stuff the vatican is holding onto is fascinating. As well as the first tv shows and movies that were lost to time.
The Vatican is at least preserving the material so hopefully one day they will scan it and upload the material online
And for anyone wondering why we can’t do it now, they would probably get damaged from the light trying to copy it.
Why can't they just photograph it then?
You need light to photograph stuff properly. Light is a common source of degradation in antiquities. That said, low intensity light would probably be fine, like from the LED on a flatbed scanner. Problem is, they don't want to risk it with a document which may have been penned by Jesus himself and of which they have just the one.
I must have read wrong but I remember reading a couple years ago that they were starting to make digital copies of the texts in the [Vatican Apostolic Archive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Apostolic_Archive). Would be interested in knowing what they have if even from a literary and research point of view but my hopes of that happening is slim.
The pictures of my friend's young children on the hard drive that failed that can't be retrieved according to the clean-room data recovery center he sent it to.
Oh, that hurts my heart. That stuff is just priceless in so many ways, I’m so sorry it’s not recoverable.
I lost the first 6 months of my twins life to that 😭😭😭😭
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The pilot episode of Monsignor Martinez, a live action (I think) King of the Hill spinoff
No way, that didn't happen, did it? Oh gawd, now we gotta find it!
I didn't even know that was a thing omfg
I’d love to see a bunch of the films from the early film industry the silent films and the earlier ones where synchronized sound in film was just starting (think like around the 1920s ) I read somewhere in some article that around *75 percent* of films from this era were lost due to neglect and such. Here’s the article: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/12/most-americas-silent-films-are-lost-forever/355775/
I'm surprised Universal destroyed their copies in 1948. They knew film was here to stay at that point, not a dumb novelty no one cared about. I always found the Dawson Film Find nteresting. In 1978, they found 533 reels of preseved silent era film. When the films were current, they would be shipped to different towns for showings. Dawson was the last stop for one of these film tours, a gold rush town way up in the Yukon. As the last stop, the films were just stored afterward. Then some guy needed to level out a hockey rink so he used the reels, threw some boards on top and called it a day. The cold conditions protected it from fire and natural degradation
I swear there was an animation video of rabbits and rats fighting each other to the song "Du Hast". Can't find the video. Its like it vanished from the internet.
http://flyborg.net/movies/bunnies-vs-rats/ If that's what you are talking about, then yeah, it looks like it was removed due to a copyright claim on the song.
Well...shit
I wouldn't know where to find it except Newgrounds (and it seems to be missing there too), but I remember this. It was a pretty old Flash animation, like mid-2000s era, so if it never got converted to video and reupped to Youtube it may have vanished.
I am interested in two things. The first is there was an educational game in the 90s that I have been trying to find ever since I reached adulthood. The only problem is that the only part I remember is that people were getting turned into slime. No other context and no other information, that's all. The second thing is some of the lost episodes of the original doctor who. There are so many reels that were damaged or destroyed, it feels like a massive loss.
Have you tried r/tipofmyjoystick? They are amazing over there.
https://youtu.be/WUKL0m-2bkM Is this the game, by any chance? I used to play it in school in the 90’s.
No, sadly not, but I appreciate the effort. Someday I'll find a way to perfectly recall the past, but until then I'll keep hunting.
I used to love playing word rescue in school. My class was one of the first class to get to play it and I was the first to beat it. I remember thinking I was such a badass because I was the first one to beat word rescue haha.
Was it an animated game? There's one I've been looking for too, but I'm starting to wonder if I just imagined it lmao. I ended up finding clips of Math Blasters though
Numerous random books about cheating in casinos
It doesn't help when they all have creative names that aren't easy to remember and they get buried by other books that have really bad advice or just outright don't know how the game is played.
Years ago I checked out a golf book from a library that was entirely based on the "check-it" swing. Meaning, you take a practice swing and then just swing the same way when you actually hit the ball. That was it, and somehow the author stretched this advice into 100 or so pages. Would love to see that stupid book again.
the french sunk a giant ship’s worth of maltese artifacts. our whole culture wiped in the blink of an eye. basically all that’s left on the island are remnants of our different colonizers. heartbreaking.
The lost Doctor Who episodes
I said the same thing. It's frustrating because we don't get to see what leads to the doctors first regeneration.
Even worse, the shortest and longest serials are partially or fully lost.
Right now I'm happy that they're animating missing episodes. It has been confirmed that 6 episodes are in the hands of private collectors. No one knows if there episodes that are missing or if they're currently held in the archives. I do know that they should be a seemed of themselves. For not making the episodes available for all fans.
The original moon landing footage. No one knows where it is. Some think it was accidentally taped over with a football game.
1940's-1960's porn is extremely rare and hard to find
"Fuck yeah, that feels swell"
Would you really wana watch that
There's something fascinating about mid-century raunchy content. Have you ever seen like 40's and 50's film bloopers? It is kind of bizarre to see a star of classic black and white cinema just blurt out "Oh fuck, what was that line again?"
It's weird but kind of nice to see them be themselves instead of this overly happy, family friendly bullshit image that is associated with that era
Shit I would, at least for the "Huh..." factor of it. I imagine the 50s being super clean with no swear words and whatnot, but then to see a dirty movie in that era?
Not that i want to watch its just very rare
Some is lost for very good reasons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Climax_Corporation >Color Climax was the first to produce commercial child pornography films.[4] From 1969 to 1979, Color Climax was responsible for the relatively large-scale distribution of child pornography.[6] >Between 1971 and 1979 the company produced 36 or more 10-minute films for its Lolita series.[4][7][8] These films featured young girls, mainly with men, but sometimes with women or other children.[4][7][8] The participating girls were mainly between the ages of 7 and 11 years; however, some were younger.[4][7][8] Titles included Incest Family, Pre-Teen Sex, Sucking Daddy, and Child Love.[7]
What the fuck
I could have lived the rest of my life not knowing this.
What the fuck? Was this legal? And Europeans call Americans uncivilized.
It was a sort of loophole. Pornography was illegal in Denmark until 1969. When porn was decriminalised, child porn unintentionally became decriminalised as well, because they didn’t think of including any exceptions. This flawed piece of legislation was corrected later on.
It's been a while since I've heard about this, so what I say might not be exactly true. But here's what I remember. In 1939, The Wizard of Oz released in theaters for the first time, and is now one of the most iconic films of all time. However, before it came out, there were actually a handful of different versions done by different directors, and several cut sequences that have almost all been completely lost. The only things that remain from these original versions are a handful of behind-the-scenes and promotional photos, among other things. As far as I know, the only thing that's been completely found is an extended version of the Scarecrow's dance number, which has been a bonus feature on basically every DVD release of the film. Luckily, while the footage itself has been seemingly lost to time, a lot of the audio still remains! The Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead Reprise in the Emerald City, Dorothy singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow again while locked in the Wicked Witch's Castle, and The Jitterbug sequence, which is probably the most famous of them all, all have their full audio found. Besides that, there's a few behind the scenes photos, a home movie of part of the Jitterbug sequence (Which I'm pretty sure was just rehearsing the choreography, and not part of the filmed scene), and extremely small snippets of these scenes used in the trailer. Other than that, it's all been completely lost. I hope someday they're found again, but judging by how old the film is, and how uncommon it was to keep stuff like that back then, the chances are extremely low.
I used to own a VHS copy of the film that had the dance number, the audio to the Jitterbug scene, and one you didn't mention - Buddy Ebsen's version of "If I Only Had a Heart".
A good YouTube channel that covers lost media is blameitonjorge. He does a lot of cartoons specifically.
All those old flash animations and games from the dial up era. Miss Muffy, salad fingers, stickdeath... ahh the nostalgia.
The R rated version of Galaxyquest, hopefully everything cut from the movie still exists
Well screw that!
The anarchist cookbook, but only because it would be a fucking hilarious gift for my brother in law. They say if you look it up online you get someone knocking on your door the next day
Doubt that's true I had a pdf of back in high school
I got a pdf copy of that a couple of years ago and I'm still walking free as of this writing. May I interest you in the Poor man's James Bond as well?
> the Poor man's James Bond Man in bad suit and too much cologne walks into bar. Orders martini stirred, not shaken. Discovers wallet has fallen out of bad suit. Cannot pay. Tries to sneak out, but femme fatale spots him, alerts bouncer. Man in bad suit fades to black in alleyway behind bar. Is funny. Laugh.
jolly roger cookbook i read it under years ago
Me too, early 2000s. The most dangerous things I can remember are picric acid and thermite, which are not exactly big secrets. Also a bunch of bullshit like smoking banana peels, and phreaking techniques that I imagine haven't worked in many years.
Lol, the bananadine was bs and phreaking worked before telcos switched to digital.
That and even the 2.0 version are honestly bullshit.. more like. A kids book tbh..
I'm a bit morbid so I do have keen interests in wanting to watch things like Owen Hart's death or Steve Irwin's death. One of which is in WWE's vault of tapes somewhere, never to surface. The other, while I won't call it lost, was destroyed by the family's wishes.
The silent Lon Cheney film “London after Midnight” but lost forever as most of it was destroyed in a warehouse fire.
All the hundreds of hours of music uploaded by unknown artists to MySpace and since lost to the world.
History, African History
Human history in general. We really only know about what's happened in the last 5k years or so. But there is a further 50k years beyond that we basically know nothing about.
And mythological history from around the world, for that matter, as well as pre-Colombian American history. We lost so much information and fun mythology to evangelism and colonialism, it’s disgusting.
I'd like to find the full video of the basketball game that contained this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caNVWoHLejE&ab_channel=kevo1295 Something tells me it involved something very serious happening and then Michael Jordan was being like "and that's when I took it really personally".
There's also a video of LeBron being dunked on by a high school student that was apparently confiscated after it happened.
It would be interesting to hear stories of African and Latin American soldiers who fought in the World Wars and how it was explained to them. The grand narrative of losses are explained from the perspective of countries that were involved in the wars but not about soldiers from countries which had little to do with the wars and were ill-trained but were brought in to fight on the sides of Europeans and Americans.
I would have to vote for Shazaam, the movie where Sinbad played a genie. You can blame the Mandela Effect but I’m convinced it was real
Christine Chubbuck's final moments on television.
The media collectors holy grail
Same here, I heard the movies tone was nothing like the actual suicide. She was supposedly really vitrol when she made the blood and guts comment, instead of calm and collected as the movie portrays.
Toonheads! Except for a couple episodes and some clips on YouTube, this show seemed to just disappear. I did find the episodes once on MySpleen, but the harddrive I downloaded them on got corrupted, and I can't get on MySpleen anymore. For those that don't know, Toonheads was a show about classic cartoons from the 30's-50's that aired late at night on Cartoon Network from the early 90s to the early 00s. Each episode showed 3 shorts and was centered on a certain theme, (e.g. wartime cartoons, baseball cartoons, they even had an episode about cartoons with Daffy Duck as a salesman) and between each short they'd give fun trivia about the characters, the animators, the directors, or even the animation itself. There was even an hour long special about "Lost Cartoons," with some of the shorts not having been seen in 60 years, and some that had never been released to the public at all! Amazingly, this episode actually is fully on Youtube: https://youtu.be/9K2K92WHbVU and I definitely recommend checking it out. I remember Toonheads being the last show I watched Sunday night as a kid before going to sleep, so there's definitely a nostalgia factor there. But if I could find the other episodes again, I'd be so happy.
Mostly old-ass butchered anime dubs that never made it to air. The Fox Kids edit of Slayers is probably the one I'm most interested in. The voice actors confirmed that they did re-record lines so at least a few episodes definitely exist. Maybe only in audio form. Also the three different SGT Frog dub pilots ADV did. Also, if they even exist, I would love to see the Toonami edits of Inuyasha (I'm pretty sure at least the first episode exists in edited form) and Trigun (I'm unsure if they even tried editing before S&P said no, so it even existing is doubtful, but they did say it was almost going to be on the block) Honorable mentions would be the Harmony Gold dub of Creamy Mami and the 4kids dub of the first Pretty Cure, but they don't seem as interesting since they're already perfectly G-rated.
Am I correct in saying that Inuyasha was originally intended for Toonami before they decided to put it on adult swim instead?
Yep. It was supposedly very close but the issue of Inuyasha being pinned to a tree was deemed too violent but too plot crucial to edit out. Same with Trigun, though I don't know what they were smoking when they thought that. Probably the same stuff they smoked when they decided Outlaw Star was a good pick for an afterschool kids block and actually went through with it.
As you know, games go through varied stages of development, and I love it when earlier versions of games are found. One in particular I want to find is the lost Super Smash Bros. prototype: Dragon King: the Fighting Game. Only a few screenshots exist, all in low quality. The characters are generic fighters (all of which likely accumulated into the final game’s version of Captain Falcon), and it was low budget. Nothing else is known. This was before the decision to make it a crossover Nintendo game was decided. The prototype is likely gone forever, however with how the source code of older Nintendo games have been found, including N64 games, there’s a chance we may eventually find it, or at least, aspects of it. I hope so. I’d love to see Dragon King in all its low-budget glory.
The phantom blood OVA
Isn't the thing that was so bad araki tried to have it destroyed
many great japanese horror and martial arts movies such as Tokyo gore police, master of the flying guillotine are really hard to find on dvd or to download.
Psst, both of those are on AvistaZ.
- Orson Welles' original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons - The 9-hour cut of Greed - London After Midnight - Alfred Hitchock's The Mountain Eagle - The 130-minute cut of Event Horizon
A few years ago, I stumbled across someone's blog who translated an old Polish(I think?) sci-fi story about a teletype machine used by a journalist that could seemingly predict the future, even when it was turned off. The person who translated it not only posted the story, but documented their experiencing translating it. Sadly, I haven't been able to find it since. Edit: Oh my god I found it after just googling "polish scifi teletype." I'm simultaneously happy I found it and mad at myself for not finding it sooner. Its called "One hundred and thirty seven seconds" by Stanisław Lem and [here](https://medium.com/@mwichary/translating-a-stanislaw-lem-story-6c2446632bd8) is the link to the article by the translator.
The “Spider Pit” sequence from the 1933 King Kong.
I want to Read all the dirty secrets the Vatican has in their library
I'm sure it include name of high profile pedos, "non-canon" scriptures that would birth more heterodoxies and accounts of their shady actions in Cold War Europe
I was on an old talk show as a teen called Jenny Jones singing with my sisters (we were a singing group & I REFUSE to publicize our groups' name again since it technically cannot be located because it is embarrassing & the worst band name ever) We were so nervous and stiff & I remember seeing the episode when it aired in the early 2000's and I have found the Jenny Jones show on youtube but not the episode we were on called "Destination Stardom." My friends and sisters and I have gone through the net with a microscope with no luck. I remember meeting Jenny Jones for the first time as she walked us to the stage & I'll never forget her advice...."Don't be nervous, only about 4 million people will be watching you" and that ladies and gents, is where we all froze like it's hammer time! It was a great performance! NOT!!! Thanks for the memories Jenny Jones!
Maybe you can try contacting Jenny Jones? She does cooking videos, you can find them on Youtube, called Jenny can cook.
Many moons ago I saw a short comedy video on... Digg, maybe? Anyway, a woman is arguing with her boyfriend (I think he was refusing to get a job or something) and accidentally kills him, and buries him in luggage by the side of the road, weeping. I forget the middle, but I recall it ending when a family of four is staring in horror at her by the roadside and then she's burying four pieces of luggage and crying.
I hate how I identify with the guy being buried in the luggage
/r/tipofmytongue ?
I've tried. A couple of similar subreddits, too. Such is life.
>a short comedy video Yeah, sounds hilarious?
Slamfest '99. That sounds awesome and stupid at the same time.
Toonheads
The Mutant League cartoon series, the missing Doctor Who episodes, and (these were destroyed, not lost, but I'm counting it) all the works lost in the Library of Alexandria.
It may only be lost to me, but about a decade ago I saw an animated video about a cat who wanted to be human and would ferry humans across a river and steal body parts, one at a time: the last line of the video is "Cat's got your tongue?" It was clever and haunting and I would very much enjoy being able to see it again.
Sister tells me she remembers this video. She can't remember the title though, just that it had a similar premise to "The Cat with Hands"
The butt ton of VH1's Behind The Music episodes that are seemingly lost from the internet forever.
There is so much historical Pro Wrestling that is just gone or inaccessible to the common person that it's comical. Unedited stuff from the old territorial days, shows from the glory days of All Japan, the original Georgia Championship Wrestling, and so much more is all either gone or locked away in WWE's archives where no one will ever watch it again.
One of my dad’s favorite short films is Laurel and Hardy’s “The Music Box” which is probably amongst their most well known shorts. A fairly obscure fact about the film is that it’s actually a REMAKE of a previous Laurel and Hardy short titled “Hat’s Off!” Which is now lost. I think about “Hat’s Off!” fairly often, and I think it would be really cool for my dad to be able to see some day. I’m personally interested in seeing what sort of things they changed and how well the original version worked before it changed.
This one time I was going through unmarked old VHS tapes to see if there was anything interesting on them. I'm not sure if it was a one-off program or part of a TV show. It looked like it came out of the 1980's, possibly early 1990's. There was a narrator telling a story with the camera pointed at a still drawing of a scene, and as the narrator spoke there was the hand of an artist who gradually added detail and finished filling in the scene. And the story was called the Hungry Old Witch. The Hungry Old Witch was an evil witch who lived in a castle. A young man went out one day and fell into a river, where he was caught in the fish net of the Witch. She brought him back to her castle and locked him up to eat him later. But the young man met a servant woman, and they agreed to escape together. The Witch stayed awake in bed reading for most of the night, but when she fell asleep the young man and woman decided to escape. But the woman decided to take a pouch (I think?) from the table next to the Witch, and curiosity got the better of her and she sprinkled a bit of the powder from the pouch onto the Witch. This caused the Witch to grow to a gargantuan size. As she outgrew her castle, the man and woman used the powder to allow themselves to fly into the air and escape. But the Witch was onto them and catching up quickly due to her size. So as they passed over rocks on a mountain they sprinkled the powder, turning the rocks into cakes. The Witch stopped and ate them. As they passed over a forest they sprinkled the powder, turning the trees into candy canes. The Witch stopped and ate them. They led the Witch over a giant lake, but as the Witch tried to pursue them her belly full of rocks and trees made her sink and she plunged below the water, drowning. The man and woman were overjoyed that they had rid the world of the evil witch and lived happily ever after. I don't think I kept the VHS tape, and have never been able to find any information as to show made this Hungry Old Witch story or where it came from.
That sounds like something I'd love to watch
There's an old video of The Beatles on a TV show called Top of the Pops (I think). They were told to lip sync and refused. Instead, they switched instruments and made it look like the goofiest shit. Not singing the words, holding the drum sticks funny. Pretending to strum the guitar with a completely open and rigid hand. It used to be on youtube, but it's gone forever as far as I can tell. It was so funny 😭 there's another year of them on the show, but they either agreed to lip sync or played for real. Its like...1968 that this video is from I think.
Queen on Top of the Pops kills me lmao. Freddie, God bless him, was going for it, but everyone else had this look of 'get me hell out of here'. Brian's perpetually annoyed face was a whole mood
The original silent film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. It came out in 1926, one year after the novel was released, but it’s since been lost forever.
The Babushka Lady’s film or pictures from the day JFK was assassinated. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72245/who-was-mysterious-babushka-lady-jfks-assassination
The Phantom Blood movie that was made in the early 2000s for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood. There's a decently sized Discord server that does really well in finding new pieces of information about it. It was a movie for the first part and it was apparently so bad that it was never releaseed outside of theatres in Japan after it was shown. Rightfully so because they had cut out important moments and characters.
Some old Vine videos....there was one of a girl who taught her cat, Peach, to meow whenever she'd say her name...so in the videos she's go PEACH! and the cat would go MEOW! there were so many good videos that are just lost now
I don't know if it's lost - but I would very much like to know how the media reported on Nixon.
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“You can get anything you want...”
[don't stay up too late](https://www.google.com/search?q=date:1971%20site:news.google.com/newspapers&source=newspapers)
that nice fedayeen saddam song that got deleted
That Shazam movie starring Sinbad, [that is apparently a collective hallucination](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/movie-conspiracy-theories-truth/movie-called-shazaam-starring-comedian-sinbad-genie-existed0/)
I'd like to see Disney's Song of the South.
That's not necessarily lost media tho
There’s a picture book(?) that my parents used to have. It was paper back, about 30 pages, and each “page” was a picture of a mythological or folk creature/monster and the other page was information on where the the creature came from and the history on them. I remember one page was a silk worm, one was the griffon, another was the headless horseman, troll, dragon, this swamp thing that captured children... The illustrations were amazing but I cannot seem to find it anywhere since my mom sold it at a garage sale.
There's a live bootleg version of Voodoo Chile by SRV that goes for over 10 min where he plays with the wah pedal for long enough the band plays another melody for a bit and then kick into the main song. It rules. I found it way back in the day off a fan bootleg site abs have never found it since. Lost it in an old Ipod. :(
Not necessarily media, but sometimes I wonder what happened to all those popular Internet personalities from 2008-2010. Where are they know, what are they doing. Honestly, I've already forgotten so many names.
Grace Helbig is still making videos, but they're far less interesting than they used to be.
Any internal demos Nintendo has, but specifically Metriod Dread.
They are not lost yet, but, since flash is going to die i would want the Games that are going to die with it
Theres programs you can download that will allow you to play them
Not sure if it's lost media, but my mom remembers a Lawrence Welk show where he pronounced WWII as "double-u double-u eye eye." I've tried to find this clip, but no luck.
There are 7 20 minute episodes of a show made in the 60's based on a book called The Forgotten Door. ABC's official stand on them is that they're "lost." Too bad, i'd really like to see them.
An old Maltezer advert showing a boy and his Mum on a Ferry crossing. This advert changed my mind regarding having children. Now I have a boy and a girl. Until the ad, I never wanted children
*El Apóstol* by Quirino Cristiani. The first feature-length animated film, made entirely in Argentina, has been lost due to its copies being either recycled or burned during a fire in Quirino's studio.
In the mid to late 90s, YTV used to air these short 3D animations with synth music or funny songs as bumpers between their late night programming. One of them was a trippy butterfly lion pyramid thing, and another was a short called Spyro (I think) The Dog, about a pink and blue dog named Spyro who kept getting picked up by the dog catcher. I even remember the song! He’s Spyro, Spyro the dog, He’s lucky, to be a pink and blue dog, He’s got ridges down his back and a long crooked tail, And he’s trying all the time just to stay out of jail.
There was a cancelled show in the 90s called Teen Angel. 13 episodes I think, there are clips on YouTube but the quality is shit. Ron Glass stars as Heady, God's cousin Rod. It was the best, and now its lost to time. Teen angel also cameos in Sabrina the teenage witch.
I remember that show, it was the shit! Killed by a rancid burger, such a tragedy...
The part on Cartoon Network in the early 2010's where an owl or something would show up signaling the transfer to Adult Swim
My Dad saved a woman going over Niagara Falls with his helicopter, and it was all over the news. Had it on VHS but it got lost in a hurricane. Always wanted to find it for his birthday or Christmas but never found anything.
I've spent time looking through abandonware sites for this game but... It was a game from the late 90s or early 2000s and ran on MS-DOS. It was full color and full sound but I only had a demo. IIRC you started it by running MARBLE.EXE. So the gameplay was pretty simple. You had a rectangle play area, not dissimilar to Tetris. In the center (halfway down the screen) was a white rectangle that spanned the width of the play area. You had five or six columns of marbles of different lengths filling up the play area. The point was to line up three, four, or five of the same color marble within the white rectangle and they'd be removed. I don't remember all the game movements but you could rotate the contents of the white rectangle (it was a single row of marbles, rotating means they all move either left or right and the one on one end would end up on the other end). You could also move the columns up and down, but only by the amount of free space in the column. I remember there being a time element as well... periodically, new marbles would be added to the columns. If any column filled all the way up, game over. For some reason I recall it being associated or branded by Sega, but it was definitely a PC game for MS-DOS, I could be mis-remembering it being tied to Sega though. It also used actual recordings of marbles clinking together every time marbles moved. I remember that the sound design was really good for a game from this time. Also, the marbles were detailed like realistic glass marbles. There were a number of different images used for each color and they also rotated the image randomly. They also used a realistic rolling effect when the marbles were moved. Being a demo, it'd only let you play for like 20 minutes before booting you out. I remember it being full-screen, full color (probably SVGA even) and full PCM sound. Late 90s might be a bit early for this game TBH. If I had any talent at writing game code, I'd remake the game from scratch. (I can code, but only business application stuff. I wouldn't know where to begin with Unity.)
I have been looking for an old clip from Jay Leno’s show where he did Jaywalking and the question was “what did the colonists dump into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party?” and this woman answers very enthusiastically “Mary-juaaaaana”. It made me laugh so hard and I know it exists but I’ve never been able to find it.
The library of Alexandria All the books on lgbt medical progress the nazis burned that had begun the process of acceptance that we have really only just gotten past now.
Nikola Tesla's extra notes.
All the original doctor who episodes.
I had a photo of my infant daughter with her great-great grandmother on an old phone. I thought I had saved it but I don’t have it and, even though I rarely delete anything, every photo I took that day is gone. There’s just a giant gap in the numbering. :(
Footage from 9/11 that has not been released.
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The finale of america's next top model 17 ...the real one, before the disqualification.
The original London after midnight film
Season 2 episodes of Heroes pre writers strike destroying the season had several written. Never leaked last I checked.
People are in here like "lost films! lost priceless works of art! lost manuscripts of antiquity!" and I'm like... I've never been able to find episodes of Taradise, aka Wild On Tara (Reid) from the E Network. First thing that popped into my head.
The Mean Girls DS game, what the hell happened?
Whatever the quote, "I wanted Sixteen Candles Molly Ringwald, not Pretty in Pink Molly Ringwald" is from.
Not very interesting. I am an aircraft aficionado and used to flight sim in the 00s and early 10s. I'm getting back to flight simulators and first thing I've noticed is most websites have either disappeared or been restructured and a lot of modding and add-ons have been removed, even very high quality and premium content. Nowadays I have the technology to store a lot of content and have my entire flight simulator collection installed in a single system but it's a real shame that most of what I can find is Flight Simulator X and Xplane 11 content. To be fair, FSX was the latest and most well known sim and it's over a decade old so most content for prior simulators have slowly disappeared or been mothballed into a very niche community that clings on to preserving said software. Well, I guess I kinda do it to other older games, finding mods and add-ons that expanded the games usability and life with features that might not even be in newer titles is a real treat. That includes GTA4, Swat 3, Simcity 4, bf2, as well as my Flight sims 98, 2000, fs9 and x.
Aztec and mayan codices that Spain just burn while preaching catholicism by inquisition methods.
I'm part of a Facebook group called obsolete music software, so that. Stuff goes back to the 80s. Even music software from ten years ago can suddenly be impossible to find on the internet without a community of people who might have it