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The lost SpongeBob “Got Milk” commercial has been found.

I remembered when I first saw this commercial when I was younger. It was one of my first exposures to SpongeBob. Once I heard about it again after all these years it kinda brought me back.
 
I'm making this post in this thread because it was the most recent.

This was pre-youtube, maybe from 1999-2002. A company or person that put in a ton of work put out a teaser trailer for a grindhouse type of thing, it was all CG and since it was pre-youtube and sites like that it was only seen by some. It was a Mexican zombie thing where a priest decided to fight back against the undead from his church(the trailer was mostly him explaining and preparing iirc) with sawn off shotguns. Some violence.
Can't remember any names attached to it but at the time it would have been a herculean effort for a single individual because it had actual animation.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
I'm making this post in this thread because it was the most recent.

This was pre-youtube, maybe from 1999-2002. A company or person that put in a ton of work put out a teaser trailer for a grindhouse type of thing, it was all CG and since it was pre-youtube and sites like that it was only seen by some. It was a Mexican zombie thing where a priest decided to fight back against the undead from his church(the trailer was mostly him explaining and preparing iirc) with sawn off shotguns. Some violence.
Can't remember any names attached to it but at the time it would have been a herculean effort for a single individual because it had actual animation.
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If you looking for it the Lost Media Wiki has a forum for requests to find things. They seem to love to jump on the harder cases at times.
 
sparklemilhouse said:
There's a CBS cartoon, "The Young Astronauts" that was supposed to premiere around the time of the Challenger explosion. It was pulled from the network before airing a show due to the incident.

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This page just makes my eyes roll out of my skull--why are so many people obsessed with closing logos:
http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Columbia_Pictures_Television_"Cokeburst"_(and_Other_Rare_Closing_Logos)
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CBS had issues with this; I remember they had a Garbage Pail Kids series ready to air but it was pulled at the last minute due to parent complaints. They replaced it with a second installment of Muppet Babies, which itself has it's own lost media issues as the second season had episodes cut up into segments and god-awful puppet crap inserted between each episode's acts and the show rebranded "Muppet Babies and Monsters"; which got a huge amount of complaints from kids/parents, that they yanked the monster segments out after a couple of weeks and aired the rest of the season two episodes normally.

Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
I'd like to see the original eight hour long cut of Erich von Stroheim's Greed.
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it exists, sort of.

TCM paid to reconstruct the eight hour cut of Greed via stills and the original script. But due to the use of stills/text, the reconstruction version runs like four hours.

tehpope said:
Best Brains has the master tapes. So they're not truly lost. IMO, season zero is pretty shitty and really not worth watching unless you're an extreme hardcore mstie.
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MST3K Season Zero is interesting though in that while some episodes eventually DID get remade (mainly during seasons 1 and 3) there are several episodes with films that never did get remade in the series proper, supposedly because they were films they used on the show without permission due to the fast and loose nature of the shows early public access days.

In particular, one of the unique Season Zero episodes was the infamous "Phase IV", which itself is infamous lost-film wise due to the fact that the studio cut the original ambiguously arthouse ending from it, leaving the ending even more nonsensical and incoherent.
 
MirrorNoir said:
MST3K Season Zero is interesting though in that while some episodes eventually DID get remade (mainly during seasons 1 and 3) there are several episodes with films that never did get remade in the series proper, supposedly because they were films they used on the show without permission due to the fast and loose nature of the shows early public access days.

In particular, one of the unique Season Zero episodes was the infamous "Phase IV", which itself is infamous lost-film wise due to the fact that the studio cut the original ambiguously arthouse ending from it, leaving the ending even more nonsensical and incoherent.
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They found the original ending some years ago. Its on YT.
MirrorNoir said:
it exists, sort of.

TCM paid to reconstruct the eight hour cut of Greed via stills and the original script. But due to the use of stills/text, the reconstruction version runs like four hours.
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I'm surprised TCM hasn't put it out on home video ever. I think the last legit release was VHS/LD. There's some releases now due to it being in PD.

Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
My kingdom for a functioning Windows 10 port of Microsoft Space Pinball.
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github.com

GitHub - k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet - GitHub - k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
github.com github.com
 
MirrorNoir said:
MST3K Season Zero is interesting though in that while some episodes eventually DID get remade (mainly during seasons 1 and 3) there are several episodes with films that never did get remade in the series proper, supposedly because they were films they used on the show without permission due to the fast and loose nature of the shows early public access days.

In particular, one of the unique Season Zero episodes was the infamous "Phase IV", which itself is infamous lost-film wise due to the fact that the studio cut the original ambiguously arthouse ending from it, leaving the ending even more nonsensical and incoherent.
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yeah they're certainly rough around the edges but some of them are fun enough if you like the early stuff
also iirc there's only one missing any more, ep 3 "Fugitive Alien 2"
 
MirrorNoir said:
CBS had issues with this; I remember they had a Garbage Pail Kids series ready to air but it was pulled at the last minute due to parent complaints. They replaced it with a second installment of Muppet Babies, which itself has it's own lost media issues as the second season had episodes cut up into segments and god-awful puppet crap inserted between each episode's acts and the show rebranded "Muppet Babies and Monsters"; which got a huge amount of complaints from kids/parents, that they yanked the monster segments out after a couple of weeks and aired the rest of the season two episodes normally.
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Seems like CBS painted themselves into a corner there with that subtraction of a show ready to air until shit hit the fan.
 
tehpope said:
They found the original ending some years ago. Its on YT.

I'm surprised TCM hasn't put it out on home video ever. I think the last legit release was VHS/LD. There's some releases now due to it being in PD.


github.com

GitHub - k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet - GitHub - k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
github.com github.com
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Turner Classic Movies did put it up for a viewer vote back in 2007 when they did a marathon for classic films with no DVD release to see which one they would release as part of a planned "viewer favorite" DVD line. But it lost the vote. That was when I first saw the film, which mesmerized me mightily as I watched it play out during a rainy day afternoon.

Raging Capybara said:
I doubt. Jerry Lewis died and we still haven't got "The Day the Clown Cried".
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The story that I heard was that there are issues such as remastering/restoring the film that have to be done first, plus the rumor that Lewis's estate wants a huge amount of money for the release rights plus paying for the remastering/restoration work.
 
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Is there any MATI lost media?
 
Not so much lost (just very hard to find) but the original cut of Nightmare on Elm Street 5 was originally given an NC-17 rating for how much more brutal the deaths were. You can find (very pixilated clips) of them on the Never Sleep Again documentary but the actual VHS copy with the extended death scenes intact goes for crazy prices online
 
Dwight Frye said:
Not so much lost (just very hard to find) but the original cut of Nightmare on Elm Street 5 was originally given an NC-17 rating for how much more brutal the deaths were. You can find (very pixilated clips) of them on the Never Sleep Again documentary but the actual VHS copy with the extended death scenes intact goes for crazy prices online
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Same thing happened with Night of the Living Dead 3. Original VHS was gorier and "Unrated", anything later was like 15 minutes less and removed a lot of the body horror.
 
Trilby said:
Lame, but not surprising.
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It's actually the second time they've done it. When they made the video, they did two cuts: one for MTV and one for other markets. The MTV version cut the minstrel singers singing the "super duper" part, but they were still seen in the background in several scenes. The new cut completely expunges them.
 
Not really a specific piece of media, but if like me you like to watch stuff from the 2000's, even more so for more controversial pieces of media (according to today's oversensitive hysterical movements at least), try and find your favourite shows and save them somewhere. It's harder if, like me, you're not an american and thus have to look for the dubbed versions which are harder to find, but it's always worth it as you never know when the next horseshit flurry of indignation will happen and whether your favourites will be targeted or not. Not to sperg, but fuck me if this shit isn't stupid, you can't have a show criticize say, racism without showing it with the use of racist elements to drive the point across, merely showing that is seen as bad, same as showing the swastika when mocking the nazis (how the fuck are people supposed to understand any of this shit with those limitations?!). It's so fucking stupid and I had that happen to a movie I liked over a "racist" scene (a character, portrayed as an insane asshole of a person, had a scene where they would go and refer to two guys in a meeting room by slurs - the joke being on them acting like a complete asshole while professing their virtues), I had to dig so much to find this fucking movie, I swear I thought I would find some ancient lost city before I found a copy lol!
 
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