Lost (or unavailable) media

[tehpope]

I still have my VHS copies of the last home release of the pre-Special Edition Star Wars trilogy. You know, that box featuring the veiled threat from Lucas about things to come?

I wish they would just release digital copies of those movies. The new Blue Ray versions look really good but they still have those fucking autistic edits to them which I hate.

Disney is working on those. But I think the rights to Ep. IV is holding it up. That one is partially owned by Fox and the mouse doesn't want them to have any profits from it. We'll probably see it soon enough after they buy Fox.

Also laserdisc is slightly better in quality. But there are a ton of fan recreations of ep. IV-VI out there. Ep. IV even has a 35mm transfer out there.

 

[XYZpdq]

Disney is working on those. But I think the rights to Ep. IV is holding it up. That one is partially owned by Fox and the mouse doesn't want them to have any profits from it. We'll probably see it soon enough after they buy Fox.

Also laserdisc is slightly better in quality. But there are a ton of fan recreations of ep. IV-VI out there. Ep. IV even has a 35mm transfer out there.

Got a link on that 35mm version? What's the resolution?

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I still have my VHS copies of the last home release of the pre-Special Edition Star Wars trilogy. You know, that box featuring the veiled threat from Lucas about things to come?

I wish they would just release digital copies of those movies. The new Blue Ray versions look really good but they still have those fucking autistic edits to them which I hate.

I recently found that last box set for $5 at a thrift store.

It sucks that the last official decent looking release for the movies was on VHS and isn't even available in widescreen. I mean I'm fine with the fullscreen, but goddamn those movies would look majestic in high-def.

 

[Nekromantik]

The Golem films. German Expressionist films inspired by the Golem of Prague story. There was The Golem (1915), The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917) that was more a parody, and The Golem: How he came in to the World (1920). Only the last one has been found and published. There is a rumor that The Golem and the Dancing Girl is in an archive some where in Eastern Europe, but nothing has come of it yet.

We can blame these lost films on those damn Nazis.

 

[TokiBun]

Someone might have mentioned it already but the company that made the Stardust Crusaders OVAs made a Phantom Blood one. It only ran once in theaters and Araki didn't like it so it was never released on home video. We only have about 16 minutes available with no sound. I like the character designs so I wouldn't mind watching the film and comparing it to the 2012 anime.

 

[tehpope]

I recently found that last box set for $5 at a thrift store.

It sucks that the last official decent looking release for the movies was on VHS and isn't even available in widescreen. I mean I'm fine with the fullscreen, but goddamn those movies would look majestic in high-def.

There are widescreen versions of those last releases, but they're non-anamorphic.

 

[Lunete]

That one episode of the Dick Cavett show where a health guru talked about boiling his vegetables in piss and boasted about how perfectly healthy he was only to die of a heart attack minutes later.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/90612/dead-air-talk-show-guest-who-died-dick-cavetts-stage

I should add that I don't want to actually see the guy die, I just want to see if all the things he said during the interview are true due to how tragically ironic it is

 

[Trilby]

That one episode of the Dick Cavett show where a health guru talked about boiling his vegetables in piss and boasted about how perfectly healthy he was only to die of a heart attack minutes later.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/90612/dead-air-talk-show-guest-who-died-dick-cavetts-stage

Damn. Be interesting if that footage still exists someplace.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Unracisting me

 

[sasazuka]

I doubt they're technically "lost" as I suspect the CBC still has them in their archives, but one thing from Canadian Sesame Street I'd love to see again but which haven't been uploaded anywhere so far as I can tell are the "Nanabush" (Nanabozho) cartoons about the Ojibwe trickster spirit, especially the one where he subdues "Winter" by tricking him into drinking warm soup. I remember that one having all sorts of crazy visuals that were borderline nightmare fuel.

(For people unaware what Canadian Sesame Street was, when I was a little kid, it was essentially the main "Street" segments with humans and Muppets and some of the interstitial segments from the American version mixed in with original Canadian content with an obvious focus on French language instruction but they also had some segments dealing with other aspects of Canadian culture. In the late 1980s, they started adding original Canadian Muppet segments as well, and eventually it morphed into Sesame Park which I believe was 100% original Canadian content but even my youngest brother had outgrown it by that point.)

 

[Trilby]

I doubt they're technically "lost" as I suspect the CBC still has them in their archives, but one thing from Canadian Sesame Street I'd love to see again but which haven't been uploaded anywhere so far as I can tell are the "Nanabush" (Nanabozho) cartoons about the Ojibwe trickster spirit, especially the one where he subdues "Winter" by tricking him into drinking warm soup. I remember that one having all sorts of crazy visuals that were borderline nightmare fuel.

(For people unaware what Canadian Sesame Street was, when I was a little kid, it was essentially the main "Street" segments with humans and Muppets and some of the interstitial segments from the American version mixed in with original Canadian content with an obvious focus on French language instruction but they also had some segments dealing with other aspects of Canadian culture. In the late 1980s, they started adding original Canadian Muppet segments as well, and eventually it morphed into Sesame Park which I believe was 100% original Canadian content but even my youngest brother had outgrown it by that point.)

I remember Canadian Sesame Street quite a bit. I remember getting it mixed up with the regular show as I used to watch CBC a number of times growing up.

I remember seeing the end credits they showed on the Friday shows that used to show this particular place in Ontario of people sliding down a hill, always found that amusing.

 

[millais]

Unracisting me

Pretty sure all the cut and unedited content from WP Season 1 is available online, if not on youtube then on other video sharing sites like daily motion.

 

[Zeva_Adom]

Game in the Sand (Werner Herzog, 1964)
One of Herzog's earlier films, the plot of Game has not received much elaboration from Herzog. We only have scant mentions by Herzog of what the contents of the film were in interviews and biographical snippets: all boil down to effectively stating the following:



We have little more than what was pithily collated in a Wikipedia article on the film:



What happened? What got out of hand?

Did the rooster accidentally die on set from being crushed by being buried in the aforementioned sand, with the children left to react to it? Was there some sadism displayed by the children which would have been utterly transgressive? Was there an accident which was too disturbing for general release?

The only opportunity we will likely have to learn what happened in this 1964 film will come with Herzog's death. If so, I have the feeling we may have some of Herzog's most disturbing footage yet.

It's in german but I'll translate.
Tl;dr before is that people HAVE seen the movie and there was nothing in it that crossed a border.

I'd like to emphatically deny that nobody has seen "a Game in the Sand", that's just not true.
Everybody in Herzogs creative community has seen it. And the reason that he doesn't want to show it anymore today has to be a different one. Back then I didn't notice anything that would have been offensive or crossed a border.
It's a Herzog typical motive that a game turns into violence. And chickens turn up in a lot of movies. Today people react extremely sensitive when it comes to violence on animals, it wasn't like that back then. It was different in the sixties.

 

[sasazuka]

I remember seeing the end credits they showed on the Friday shows that used to show this particular place in Ontario of people sliding down a hill, always found that amusing.

I think I looked up where that slide was a year or so ago and it's in Collingwood, Ontario, if I remember correctly.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

I doubt they're technically "lost" as I suspect the CBC still has them in their archives, but one thing from Canadian Sesame Street I'd love to see again but which haven't been uploaded anywhere so far as I can tell are the "Nanabush" (Nanabozho) cartoons about the Ojibwe trickster spirit, especially the one where he subdues "Winter" by tricking him into drinking warm soup. I remember that one having all sorts of crazy visuals that were borderline nightmare fuel.

(For people unaware what Canadian Sesame Street was, when I was a little kid, it was essentially the main "Street" segments with humans and Muppets and some of the interstitial segments from the American version mixed in with original Canadian content with an obvious focus on French language instruction but they also had some segments dealing with other aspects of Canadian culture. In the late 1980s, they started adding original Canadian Muppet segments as well, and eventually it morphed into Sesame Park which I believe was 100% original Canadian content but even my youngest brother had outgrown it by that point.)

I remember watching Sesame Park back in the day when it was airing, but it's the first time I've seen these Canadian skits.

 

[Trilby]

I remember watching Sesame Park back in the day when it was airing, but it's the first time I've seen these Canadian skits.

Yeah, early on it was basically the American show with Canadian stuff thrown in for the most part during the 70's, then the puppets started to take over in the 80's and then Sesame Park happened in the 90's.

 

[Rolo_Tomassi]

Peep Show (1965), which is currently streaming on Fandor, but outside of that I've never been able to locate a copy to purchase or download.

It's a very low noir about the mob being involved in JFK's assassination that mixes in elements of the feaux documentary style that Oliver Stone will use in Nixon and JFK. Despite being made two years after JFK's assassination, the film feels eerily modern.

 

[Dysnomia]

If anyone's interested in failed and unaired pilots sometimes I binge there and you can find some here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXE5XM07f5jpoJTzX5iiEvQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXE5XM07f5jpoJTzX5iiEvQ
The Dailymotion channel I used to watch doesn't seem to exist anymore. But I used the search to bring up a list: https://www.dailymotion.com/search/unaired pilot/videos

I really love watching these. Some of them I didn't even know existed.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

I've been looking for this weird ass sex ed cartoon I had seen as a kid that might've been made by a French studio, by the look of it it must've been from somewhere around the '70s or '80s. I don't remember much of it, but I think it involved a granny going though a family photo album with her roughly 8 year old nephew and niece, with the occasional picture of the children completely nude triggering the old hag into telling stories about how sex works. The tales of procreation were full of cartoon bears playing each others' junk (don't worry, no homo, all True and Honest Straight cartoon bears). It was also full of really tightfisted metaphors, like penetration and ejaculation being show through artillery cannons sticking out of mountains thorugh weirdly vaginal creaks and firing their loads into the ocean.

There's also this old Canadian live action series that was on air in Hungary in 1991. I don't really remember a thing of it, and without knowing its original title the only things I could find regarding it were some scans of old TV guides. The title of it was translated to "Szellemek Öble", which roughly means "Bay of Ghosts". Can't remember if there were actual ghosts in the series, but I seem to recall it being a criminal-adventure type thing. Sadly I was super little when it had aired, so I can't even remember any of the actors or the general plot.

 

[sasazuka]

There's also this old Canadian live action series that was on air in Hungary in 1991. I don't really remember a thing of it, and without knowing its original title the only things I could find regarding it were some scans of old TV guides. The title of it was translated to "Szellemek Öble", which roughly means "Bay of Ghosts". Can't remember if there were actual ghosts in the series, but I seem to recall it being a criminal-adventure type thing. Sadly I was super little when it had aired, so I can't even remember any of the actors or the general plot.

Maybe it's the mid-1980s CBC children's adventure TV series Danger Bay? It'd fit your timescale.

Spoiler: Danger Bay episode 1