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Commander X said:
An interesting footnote, earlier this year all 7 known episodes of the really, really, really cheap, just really hilariously low-rent Argentinian live-action TV adaption of the comic Cybersix were discovered.

Some may recognize the comic, or the thirteen-episode animated TV series that was aired in the US.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ShJtoAa5e5s
Not that this 1996 live-action TV series is a forgotten gem, hidden under layers of obscurity before it was uncovered. It seems to have been derided by some people at the time for it's near no-budget production. Someone had recorded the episodes as they had aired on the Telefe television network years ago and digitized them, and they can be downloaded from this Google Drive folder. We are in 1-point-something GB file size per episode territory here.

It was noted by people sharing this news that the episodes aren't complete, most of them are missing the ending credits for instance, and maybe there's a final scene missing from the fourth episode as it seems to come to an abrupt end. Seven episodes were aired on Telefe and that's what has been found, though some say there was an eighth episode but from what I've read and heard here and there there's just no way to be sure, unless paperwork archives from Telefe or the production company are found proving it one way or the other.
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I hope somebody gets a backup. I'm in the hospital and may forget
 
Mr. Nobodyguy 202 said:
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At least repost the fucking pictures here nigger, damn.
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Archive of the thread: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Ti3uh
 
naaaaiiiiillllll!!! said:
This is a problem with the lost media community that frustrates me to no end. So much weaponized autism goes into finding a 3 second bumper ad of SpongeBob playing a PSP on a German kid’s TV station in 2006 or whatever, but nothing about trying to find and archive historic stuff like you mentioned. I’m not trying to force the community to focus all attention to finding CSPAN footage from 30 years ago about a proposed tax raise in Riverside County or something, but “boring political” media like the OJ, Oklahoma City Bombing, Columbine, and even Monica Lewinsky had HUGE pop-cultural implications. Anybody with even a passing interest in entertainment should be hyper-focused on finding and archiving this stuff.
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The problem is the community is filled with autists.

It's worse with the people who obsess over intros for movies which nobody but turbospergs care about and it's not like they're ever going to vanish or ever become lost media.
People like this: https://www.youtube.com/@Elevatorsandmovieswithanthony/videos
There's thousands of channels similar to this one.
 
naaaaiiiiillllll!!! said:
This is a problem with the lost media community that frustrates me to no end. So much weaponized autism goes into finding a 3 second bumper ad of SpongeBob playing a PSP on a German kid’s TV station in 2006 or whatever, but nothing about trying to find and archive historic stuff like you mentioned. I’m not trying to force the community to focus all attention to finding CSPAN footage from 30 years ago about a proposed tax raise in Riverside County or something, but “boring political” media like the OJ, Oklahoma City Bombing, Columbine, and even Monica Lewinsky had HUGE pop-cultural implications. Anybody with even a passing interest in entertainment should be hyper-focused on finding and archiving this stuff.
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I saw a video trying to cope with the issue. It did raise interesting points that modern kiddieslop is easier to find as well as being what searchers grew up with, but still comes off at defeatist cope when plenty of old physical stuff is found at some clueless boomer's garage sale.
 
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One of the things Shelley Duvall did after she moved back to Texas was this lost television series, I assume it was akin to something like Bill Nye, Steve Irwin, or Jack Hanna. She was chief executive and owner of Green Living LLC according to the Austin records. I believe this is from 2001.

I assumed when she retired as a producer in the early 90s that she was done with it entirely, but it appears this is not the case. Only this promotional clip survives.
 
naaaaiiiiillllll!!! said:
This is a problem with the lost media community that frustrates me to no end. So much weaponized autism goes into finding a 3 second bumper ad of SpongeBob playing a PSP on a German kid’s TV station in 2006 or whatever, but nothing about trying to find and archive historic stuff like you mentioned. I’m not trying to force the community to focus all attention to finding CSPAN footage from 30 years ago about a proposed tax raise in Riverside County or something, but “boring political” media like the OJ, Oklahoma City Bombing, Columbine, and even Monica Lewinsky had HUGE pop-cultural implications. Anybody with even a passing interest in entertainment should be hyper-focused on finding and archiving this stuff.
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Sorry more people care about alternate Spongebob bumper #203894 or FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDIES FANGAMES more than uh, footage of the Clinton impeachment trial or the OJ trial which was on every fucking channel.
 
Two come to mind to me.
First is Double Rush, a failed 90s sitcom about bike couriers. Cancelled after one season, the interwebs only has like two or so episodes to be found.

The second is a web series from the early 2010s that seems to have gone completely from the net. It was called "The Sky is Free", a bit of an semi-professional steampunk series that some dudes made. Can't seem to find anything on that anymore. I guess these kinds of media that don't have a lot of interest are rather easy to be lost.
 
Meriasek said:
First is Double Rush, a failed 90s sitcom about bike couriers. Cancelled after one season, the interwebs only has like two or so episodes to be found.
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Holy shit is that why they made the movie Premium Rush, the movie about bike couriers with fixed gear bikes? Trying to see if they could relive the glory?
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
Holy shit is that why they made the movie Premium Rush, the movie about bike couriers with fixed gear bikes? Trying to see if they could relive the glory?
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Don't think so, Double Rush involved no fixed gear porn. I think Premium Rush was mainly because fixie riding was a general trend back then.
And if anything it tried to relive the glory of Quicksilver with Kevin Bacon.
 
Found a channel, "Truth is Scarier than Fiction", that focuses on finding lost media involving cryptids/weird animal sightings and the documentaries/news reports alongside. Not the most high-brow stuff, but orders of magnitudes better than "5 second bumper ad of Spongebob's arms playing a PSP on German TV in 2006). Hell, there could be some interesting (maybe even important) stuff to be found:

 
S*U*R*V*I*V*A*L is a public access televesion series I discovered last year. There's not much information out on it other than it was obviously filmed in Winnipeg and aired on Winnipeg's public access TV station VPW through out the 1980's. Together produced by Winnepeg local named Kyle McCullough who wrote for South Park and a Toronto based film maker named Greg Klymkiw. This leddit thread goes more indepth.

A Youtube user rs.matr1x uploaded four episodes within the past year. It's absolutely batshit insane. Just an hour long shitpost in TV form where men in silly outfits and masks scream about prepping and the apocalypse in these crazy voices. It's just absolutely insane to watch. It's like a TV show set in the Fallout 2 universe and that intro is SO GOOD. I'd love to see if there's more episodes out there.


 
New BlameitonJorge video going over the autism shitfest over Me and My Friends (pilot for Backyardians)
 
MirrorNoir said:
Speaking of lost media and shit; it's shocks me how little OJ shit is available online. No news coverage of the day the arrest warrant was issues/the high speed Bronco chase, the aftermath of it and his arrest or even his fucking trial.

Same with the Oklahoma City Bombing or the first Gulf War. Or even of Monicagate.
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I have found clips of OJ Simpson's trial in varying quality and clips from TV shows about OJ on YouTube, but I think you are actually right—there's no full footage of the trial from what I am aware of. Also, the Oklahoma City bombing doesn't have much stuff on YouTube; even Timothy McVeigh's famed interview on 60 Minutes can only be found in horrendous-quality reuploaded VHS tapes. We really need more effort into content that matters like that.
naaaaiiiiillllll!!! said:
This is a problem with the lost media community that frustrates me to no end. So much weaponized autism goes into finding a 3 second bumper ad of SpongeBob playing a PSP on a German kid’s TV station in 2006 or whatever, but nothing about trying to find and archive historic stuff like you mentioned. I’m not trying to force the community to focus all attention to finding CSPAN footage from 30 years ago about a proposed tax raise in Riverside County or something, but “boring political” media like the OJ, Oklahoma City Bombing, Columbine, and even Monica Lewinsky had HUGE pop-cultural implications. Anybody with even a passing interest in entertainment should be hyper-focused on finding and archiving this stuff.
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I absolutely agree. Besides music and current-day news, pretty much all I watch on YouTube is reuploaded TV news and radio shows from back in the day, and it concerns me that I have no clue where I could find those radio shows should YouTube shut down, even extremely popular radio shows at the time like Rush Limbaugh or Howard Stern. It's insane how possibly the only existence of audio that millions of people listened to on the radio is random YouTube channels with names like "howardsternfan420." I don't know why the lost media community doesn't focus on archiving real-world political lost media instead of boring, pointless lost media.

Also, thread tax: I am looking for several bits of lost media, but one has come to mind recently. The band Steel Panther had a song called "Just Like Tiger Woods" that came out after his sex scandals. I remember seeing a music video for this song that said in the description it won their fan video contest. This was around maybe 2018, but I can't seem to find it. I found other fan videos from that contest, but I can't find this video that won the contest. In the video it features a guy who looks like Tiger Woods who celebrates making putts, along with the band singing and high-fiving him, and I think it also featured him dancing with hookers and getting chased by his wife, but I don't remember all the details. If somebody could find it, I would appreciate it.
 
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Howard alStern fans are pretty decent about archiving his shit but most of the truly comprehensive archives are private torrents with his pre-90s stuff are private tracker only

As for OJ it's kind of sad that the June 20, 1994 30 for 30 documentary is the closest to thing that exists for anyone wanting to relive the White bronco chase coverage.
 
I'm trying to look for an old 4chan thread that was made many years ago when AI generated imagery was still fresh and new.
The thread involved with a group of users coming together to create a fake animated movie franchise in the vein of anime/Don Bluth called The Cats of Istanbul. Posters including the ones bellow and plots were discussed and it was a really interesting thread.
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Is there a way to find it?
 
I'd imagine that there would be a considerable amount of genuine "lost media" from local PBS stations from the 70's 80s and beyond. For instance one of my earliest memories (I'd have probably been about 3) revolves around a PBS show that I called "the washing machine show", lol. The intro of the show, as best I can remember it, was this "machine" would be turned on followed by strange, but mesmerizing sounds and colors. I never paid attention to the body of the show, just the beginning and then the end, where they'd turn this "machine" off.

I have zero fucking idea what the show is called, just that it aired on a Philly PBS station in the mid 70's. About 5 years ago I did an internet search high and low for this show, and came up with nothing. I can't imagine there wouldn't be a bunch of similar obscure shows from that time that are lost to time...but is it really "lost media" if noone remembers it? lol
 
GloryHole Stalker said:
I'd imagine that there would be a considerable amount of genuine "lost media" from local PBS stations from the 70's 80s and beyond. For instance one of my earliest memories (I'd have probably been about 3) revolves around a PBS show that I called "the washing machine show", lol. The intro of the show, as best I can remember it, was this "machine" would be turned on followed by strange, but mesmerizing sounds and colors. I never paid attention to the body of the show, just the beginning and then the end, where they'd turn this "machine" off.

I have zero fucking idea what the show is called, just that it aired on a Philly PBS station in the mid 70's. About 5 years ago I did an internet search high and low for this show, and came up with nothing. I can't imagine there wouldn't be a bunch of similar obscure shows from that time that are lost to time...but is it really "lost media" if noone remembers it? lol
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Sounds like "Thinkabout" to me.
 
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