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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jun 25, 2022 4:25:38 GMT -5
London After Midnight, the silent horror film starring Lon Chaney. 75% of all silent-era films have been completely lost to time, which is just crazy to think about. And a damn shame, too. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 25, 2022 4:27:37 GMT -5
London After Midnight, the silent horror film starring Lon Chaney. A lot of silent films and otherwise early films are definitely fascinating, since there's a non-zero chance a good deal of them may still exist in part or in whole. Stuff gets mislabeled, or forgotten about entirely, all the time, especially over the course of around a century, in some cases. |
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Post by Totorob101 on Jun 25, 2022 5:04:38 GMT -5
London After Midnight, the silent horror film starring Lon Chaney. 75% of all silent-era films have been completely lost to time, which is just crazy to think about. And a damn shame, too. Man that sucks, iv become addicted to silent films and films from the 20s and so on time period so it sucks that there is so many lost to time. Wasnt Fritz Langs Metropolis lost for many decades before it was found in the 2000s? that is one of the best movies of all time in my book and if that had never been found what a shame that would have been. Lots of classic Doctor Whos are missing, ones i would love to find are Marco Polo from William Hartnells and the Celestial Toymaker from Patricks. |
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Post by Glitch on Jun 25, 2022 5:06:22 GMT -5
There was this meme music video somebody made using footage of Sonic the Hedgehog hanging out with a girl in a wheelchair. The music playing was this weird sounding christian gospel music (originally from a very low budget music video). The Sonic footage was even altered to include the grainy texture and autotracking that was in the original music video.
I absolutely cannot find any evidence it ever existed. I feel like a crazy person who imagined it.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 25, 2022 5:09:15 GMT -5
75% of all silent-era films have been completely lost to time, which is just crazy to think about. And a damn shame, too. Man that sucks, iv become addicted to silent films and films from the 20s and so on time period so it sucks that there is so many lost to time. Wasnt Fritz Langs Metropolis lost for many decades before it was found in the 2000s? that is one of the best movies of all time in my book and if that had never been found what a shame that would have been. Lots of classic Doctor Whos are missing, ones i would love to find are Marco Polo from William Hartnells and the Celestial Toymaker from Patricks. That one wasn't lost, exactly, but it was in a cut-down state. Fortunately, people have over the years found different edits of the film and pieced together the current most complete one. I think even that edit is missing a scene or two, or some scenes are shortened, but it seems to be mostly complete. It's at least something of a ray of hope, though, finding bits and pieces thought to be lost to time. It makes people hopeful that private collections or archives might have more lost reels that just haven't been sorted through that can be restored. |
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 25, 2022 6:15:30 GMT -5
Its more locked media than lost media, but there's a lot of video game beta/prototype content I'd love to see revealed. Especially after the Nintendo Gigaleak, it's clear they have a veritable goldmine of early version of games out there.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jun 25, 2022 6:31:07 GMT -5
75% of all silent-era films have been completely lost to time, which is just crazy to think about. And a damn shame, too. Man that sucks, iv become addicted to silent films and films from the 20s and so on time period so it sucks that there is so many lost to time. Wasnt Fritz Langs Metropolis lost for many decades before it was found in the 2000s? that is one of the best movies of all time in my book and if that had never been found what a shame that would have been. Lots of classic Doctor Whos are missing, ones i would love to find are Marco Polo from William Hartnells and the Celestial Toymaker from Patricks. Re: Metropolis, no, not exactly. It was the full version that was lost for decades. The film had a long history of censorship and was hacked to pieces by censors of the time. Like, so badly that some of the plot no longer made sense. Bits and pieces were discovered over the decades and gradually re-added, but for a good long while, and by a good long while, I mean around 80 years, one particular segment was deemed completely lost. My memory is hazy on this, but there was an archive somewhere that had found, I wanna say a 16mm copy of a near complete version but in a really poor state. It was restored as best as it possibly could have been considering the source's deteriorated state, and there-added to copies of the film around 2010 or so. To my knowledge, there is still a tiny bit of footage missing, but most archivists and scholars agree that what we now have is the most complete version of the film we'll ever have. |
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Jun 25, 2022 7:58:59 GMT -5
Zapruder's alternate ending, JFK survives!
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 25, 2022 11:54:53 GMT -5
We had a thread about lost media over on the Blog of Doom, and I said it there and will say it here: I love talking about lost media in general.
This one is a tabloid article, not a show, but... it was about a supposed Batman sequel (what would be Batman Returns). About the Joker returning to life, kidnapping a pregnant Vicki Vale, and recruiting the other of the Big Four of the Bat Rogues. On the other side, Robin would join Batman. I forget which publication had it.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jun 25, 2022 12:14:14 GMT -5
This topic brought to mind a thing that kept happening in high school basketball in Indiana. I come from a small town where its main claim to fame is that the guy who coached the high school boys team had unprecedented success despite the size of the school. As the coach started approaching the record for most coaching wins ever, the then record-holder started “finding” more old scorebooks that proved that his win total should be increased. This happened for several years in a row before the state’s high school athletic commission put a stop to it. Our coach then ruled supreme as the winningest coach (at 806 wins) for some time, though I think a coach at one of the schools in my new hometown finally recently passed his total. Still, they were all wins at a single small school (he turned down the chance to play on the Russell run of championships with the Celtics to coach at his alms mater) so that’s still neat.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 25, 2022 13:35:18 GMT -5
We had a thread about lost media over on the Blog of Doom, and I said it there and will say it here: I love talking about lost media in general. This one is a tabloid article, not a show, but... it was about a supposed Batman sequel (what would be Batman Returns). About the Joker returning to life, kidnapping a pregnant Vicki Vale, and recruiting the other of the Big Four of the Bat Rogues. On the other side, Robin would join Batman. I forget which publication had it. Now, let me start the "proper" selections too... There's a few having to do with game shows.... I want to see any of Bernadette Peters' appearances on Pyramid. She was apparently on the original $10,000 version, and Bill Cullen's $25,000 version. Dusty Springfield was on the panel of a 70s show called You Don't Say! I'd LOVE to see this. There was a 1994 episode of Family Feud I cannot seem to find. It was when Richard Dawson returned to the show. He apparently read a letter complaining that they didn't like him, but they didn't like the other guy who hosts the show (Ray Combs). He went on to plug Game Show Network, and joked you might see him and Ray there, and he mentioned Combs by name for like the one and only time. The Dennis James version of Price is Right had a few of these. The kind of inappropriate one was when he called the Cliff Hangers Yodely Guy "Fritz" as he fell...little did he know, "Fritz" was the name of Janice Pennington's husband who was lost on a ski trip, maybe found dead. On a lighter note, the James PIR is apparently the only time until That Moment on the Drew Carey version where someone won the Showcase on a perfect bid. |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jun 25, 2022 13:39:38 GMT -5
In the test screenings of All Dogs Go To Heaven, there allegedly was footage cut from the final theatrical version where you could see Charlie’s body airborne off the dock after Carface pushes the car at him.
Sadly, apparently Don Bluth’s director cut was stolen, and some of that footage may be damaged or lost totally flat out. But there are deleted scenes from Charlie’s nightmare about hell that are available online.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jun 25, 2022 14:27:06 GMT -5
I would love it if someone found a few more reels of Doctor Who from the Hartnell or Troughton eras. First thing I thought of, what is it 93 or 97 episodes still lost? |
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Post by Ryushinku on Jun 25, 2022 14:27:56 GMT -5
97 episodes currently. Last finds were back in 2013. I would love it if someone found a few more reels of Doctor Who from the Hartnell or Troughton eras. Yeah, this is in my wheelhouse, so anything back from that would be wonderful. Marco Polo, The Daleks' Master Plan, and The Massacre would be my particular dream goals for new episodes returned. Tenth 4 and Power 1 for Hartnell's last and Troughton's first would be great, too. |
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Post by tirtefaa on Jun 25, 2022 15:01:53 GMT -5
I'm usually okay with deleted scenes remaining deleted, but I've always had a fascination with wanting to see the original Three Stooges short Malice in the Palace with a slimmed down Curly as the cook. This was talked about a lot growing up, and I remember when someone found the lobby card proving it to be legit.
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Post by wildojinx on Jun 25, 2022 16:07:09 GMT -5
Jake DDTs Hogan on the Snake Pit. It was reportedly only aired in the Providence area, so hopefully someone from that area taped Wrestling Challenge that Saturday.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jun 25, 2022 16:35:10 GMT -5
In 2013, WWE uploaded Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels from Survivor Series 1997. What isn't on the network, the last time I looked is the footage after Shawn goes through the tunnel in the back. You have the extended no commentary of Bret standing in the ring. Talking to Owen, Anvil and Davey. Goes around to slap all the fans hands. Destroys the TV's. Does one last salute on the corners. Does "WCW" with the fingers and waives goodbye. The extended cut of the match.
Haven't seen it again.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 25, 2022 16:45:52 GMT -5
Bret v. Perfect in Alaska. Bret says it’s the best match they ever had. No cameras. Unless some industrious Alaskan snuck his Super 8 in. Can something be considered "lost media" if it was never thought to be recorded in the first place? For a while it was this adult swim cartoon of comic book nerds that chanted “ECW” at one point when a fight broke out. I thought i had dreamed it but I eventually found it. Some short run thing they tried at the time. "Welcome to Eltingville". Adult Swim apparently wanted to make more episodes but the creator found making the pilot so difficult he didn't think he had it in him to do any more. I'm pretty sure it's on YouTube. Some Lost Media I would love to see recovered - - The Welcome Home, Animaniacs! special. - Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs, a 1961 black and white, French language animated Smurfs movie. - The 60's Filmation Metamorpho cartoon. I'm almost positive this doesn't actually exist, but I'm including it just in case. - Out to Lunch, a 70's crossover special between Sesame Street and The Electric Company. I suppose it can’t but a guy can dream some fan went “WWF doesn’t come often, so I’m gonna sneak my camera in”. |
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Post by chazraps on Jun 25, 2022 16:54:47 GMT -5
If we're including things that were debatably unfinished, a 1970s blaxploitation horror film called 'Black the Ripper.'
If we're talking media that actually aired and is now seemingly lost, an SNL sketch starring Will Ferrell as Elton John releasing a CD called "More Songs I Rewrote for Dead People." It was a pre-tape and when the episode aired live it was abruptly accidentally cut off early. The full sketch only ever hit broadcast airwaves during Comedy Central's re-runs of the episode years later. However, due to collectors not really having a reason to seek out the truncated Comedy Central airings, it seems nobody ever caught it and it is now lost media.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jun 25, 2022 17:04:05 GMT -5
Wcw cyber matches.
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