Lost (or unavailable) media

[XYZpdq Jr.]

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.

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.

I hope somebody gets a backup. I'm in the hospital and may forget

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=4bYzmm42joY

 

[Mr. Nobodyguy 202]

https://x.com/Kook_Sir_/status/1939028253861146912

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Okay, but where's the Sonic movie test footage? Why aren't you niggers archiving this?

 

[Colon capital V]

https://x.com/Kook_Sir_/status/1939028253861146912

At least repost the fucking pictures here nigger, damn.

Spoiler: Sonic movie prototype images

Archive of the thread: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Ti3uh

 

[FloydsFeedandSeed]

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.

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.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

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.

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.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

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.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

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.

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.

 

[Meriasek]

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.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

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.

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?

 

[Meriasek]

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?

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.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

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: