Post by extremewreck2000 on Jan 12, 2024 23:49:42 GMT
For me personally, it's lost media from places one would LEAST expect. I'm not talking like the Netherlands or Poland, nononono. I'm talking places like Greenland, Malawi, Honduras, Guam, Aruba, etc. The kind of places that just seem so unlikely & yet it's still possible that SOME lost media from such places exist & we may never know about most of them. It really shows just how HUGE this planet is.
This is what I came in to say, too.
We have a thread here somewhere started by users from Africa who are looking for help with archiving and documenting stuff from filmmakers in their countries. I want to say Uganda, Ghana, and Botswana are the main three that I've seen come up. I haven't read that thread in a while, but I want to say some, most, or all of it was likely shot on video and it's unclear how much of their filmography exists now since it's so poorly documented.
I've dropped some threads over the years with lost and incomplete media from different countries with their film firsts, like Japan's earliest content from the 1890s and Thailand's first horror film from the 1940s or so that only exists as a silent fragment now. I've been on the prowl for more content like that, but information is usually scarce and not as useful as I'd hope for. Even now, if it isn't horror centric, finding weird and random shit like EBS and radio broadcasts would be cool to dip my toes into..
Pika helped me archive a broadcast from McMurdo Station back in the 1980s (which was unavailable for a while due to copyright issues with the music) and the same channel that has it also managed to salvage a blurb of a broadcast from Greenland in the 1970s. I love stuff like that. Different channels still have stuff like that and the history of emergency broadcasts around the world and I can only imagine what other countries have stuff that's gone unnoticed or undocumented.
