Christine Chubbuck comes to mind. (Well, at least I think it does? The article seems to have been updated since I last read it and its confuses me a bit..)
Post by theCarbonFreeze on Aug 17, 2020 4:21:51 GMT
Most TV shows from recent times, like the 70s onward, that never got released to home video or dvd.
Probably most obscure TV shows/one off programs people remember vaguely but don't know the name/production company of. (Stuff like Cracks or the "everything's comming up spring" video that's currently getting attention.)
Most pieces that have articles on the wiki probably still exist. I would assume most film and television productions since around the 1960s are preserved to some degree (I hesitate to say "well preserved" because even things that get commercial DVD releases are often in bad condition). Before that, TV programs were often broadcast live without any sort of simultaneous recording, and even in cases where videotape was used in the 1950s, it was often reused as a cost-saving measure.
Basically, the majority of truly lost media consists of silent films that were not properly preserved or accidentally destroyed in disturbingly common warehouse fires, television programs that were either broadcast live without recording or were taped over, and literature that predates the printing press.
Most pieces that have articles on the wiki probably still exist. I would assume most film and television productions since around the 1960s are preserved to some degree (I hesitate to say "well preserved" because even things that get commercial DVD releases are often in bad condition). Before that, TV programs were often broadcast live without any sort of simultaneous recording, and even in cases where videotape was used in the 1950s, it was often reused as a cost-saving measure.
Basically, the majority of truly lost media consists of silent films that were not properly preserved or accidentally destroyed in disturbingly common warehouse fires, television programs that were either broadcast live without recording or were taped over, and literature that predates the printing press.
I think those silent films have the most tragic fate of any lost media. Because they were completely destroyed, either by accident or on purpose, it's a piece of history we will never be able to appreciate. It gets more tragic when you see that many pioneering movies are actually lost. I can think of two Argentinian animated films, "El Apóstol" (1917) and "Peludópolis" (1931). The first one was the first full-length animated movie, and the second one the first animated film that incorporated sound. It also comes to my mind a 1922 film called "The Power of Love", which was the first 3D movie ever.
Last Edit: Aug 18, 2020 21:41:50 GMT by Don Rodrigo
Major multinational films you can be very certain are preserved, if likely in phenomenal security. I'm not expecting people will get to watch the entire, originally 48 FPS, Peter Jackson Hobbit trilogy in their own home anytime soon. Especially considering the high frame rate's mixed critical reception.
Independent or amateur creators may not have the resources to maintain a reliable archive.
Post by AshleyInWonderland on Aug 22, 2020 15:13:21 GMT
Usually on screen deaths of actors/hosts, For example - The Crow Incident Aside from that things someone is ashamed of? Atleast when it comes to internet media things that are low quality, not entertaining etc usually become lost media.
Just about anything from disney, especially the lost Disney channel/playhouse shows. They are just locked in the infamous Disney vault. The fact that Disney+ won't completely open the vault is actually why I refuse to subscribe.
The Owen Hart death fall video is confirmed to be in WWE's vault.
IMO the term lost media is flexible enough to include "not publicly accessible" If a big name in film like Ted Turner, Robert Iger (Disney), or Steve Stark (MGM), you could easily find half the stuff on this forum by telling your secretary to make a few emails. However, releasing it publicly would probably be more effort than it is worth. I imagine that the following are not really lost, just in some archive somewhere. - Most "lost" pilots are never meant for public release. - Deleted scenes - Previously aired shows (our biggest category). All the old and obscure TV shows that have been produced by a major studio, hold for the extremely old material, is simply in a vault somewhere.
This is why contacting people is so successful, it isn't lost, people that have it either don't know the value, don't want it seen, or are pressured by legal factors into not releasing it.
