I still think this is needed. Nothing against the requests for 2000s TV series people can't find online, but they're not really lost, and it'd be nice to have a way of seeing only media that is.
The same song was used in a Sephora commercial, which indicates it's just a track available for ad agencies to license. That's why YouTube's bots recognize the song.
Adweek credits the music on the Sephora campaign to Premium Beat, Marmoset and Barking Owl. The first two have publicly accessible sound libraries you can search through. I didn't find the song. Barking Owl has worked with Argonaut, the ad agency behind the Sephora ad, multiple times. I'd send them an email, though I doubt you'll get much. Their business is selling music to advertisers, not individuals.
Love Talking Over by Tin Drum Music is what my quick search returned. If you still haven't found it and that isn't it I have a lead I could follow on the dead purchase links.
If it was shown in 1947 to be featured in a review then it survived for at least 10 years, making copies far more likely to exist. TCM also refers to a 1953 review.
Ooh, two questions. Maybe already covered a little, I don't know.
1) How do you feel about the fact that most things here don't actually seem to be lost, but are just not available online? Sometimes it does seem a bit like a "not on YouTube" search engine, especially on the forums, with stuff on animations not repeated and recent BBC shows that are blatantly archived somewhere.
2) At the risk of being a bit controversial: Does the community's particularly high interest in cartoons and animation deter the sort of people that might actually be able to help with actually lost media - people in the know, with access to archives and so on - from participating? I mean Google-fu is great, but it feels like actual new information in most threads is pretty sparse, and when people post about lost music for example, nobody seems to care. Animation and death footage seems to be the two subjects the community focuses on.
Per the thread on the (highly likely) hoax game Stop, might a template to display at the top of articles that are potentially a hoax be a good idea? It hurts the site's credibility to have entries with no reliable evidence of existence, and while "Existence unconfirmed" exists, I believe that's supposed to be for things that are rumoured by reliable sources, not just anything somebody adds to the site without sourcing. A hoax template (similar to the NSFL one, maybe) could be added to any such articles not obvious enough to delete outright, but which are disputed, and would make it very clear to any reader immediately that the contents should be taken with a grain of salt.
This looks like a really obvious hoax to me. The information on copies and who has them is too specific, if it was a withheld game with that much info there'd be so much more online, even if just passing mentions.
Also the label on the image - an image not mirrored elsewhere online - looks possibly Photoshopped. The fact it's not elsewhere online suggests to me that it was created by the uploader, if one of the two holders of copies had released it, I'm sure that'd be a story covered on other sites.
Well, it's a "blaxploitation" movie, but any understanding of the level of exploitation is limited by nobody having seen it since the mid-1970s. It was produced and starred a black cast as best as is known.
It almost feels like it could be a hoax, but I think it's more likely to be something that was very briefly seen in a country without the precedent for preservation at that time.
There's very little online, and most of it's about the song, because it was in Moonlight recently and was also sampled by Kendrick Lamar. The only real thing of value out there, that's not been mentioned yet, is the reverse of the original soundtrack sleeve:
This tells us a few new things. Perhaps most notably, the copyright is held by a Dramafilms Inc. who may have actually been the copyright holders for the movie. The name suggests it, certainly. I can only find films by a Dramafilms, Inc. from the beginning of the 1920s, it could viably be the same one but it's unlikely (the founder of the original had no Jamaican connections, had no activity post-1921 and died in the 1960s). The music from the movie was filed for copyright on 29 October 1973. The chances are that neither company still exists, but someone likely inherited their assets.
A different Boris Gardiner release has Dramafilms, Inc. as the copyright and Leal Productions Co. Ltd. as the producer. That's referencing the music of an unrelated project, though.
Of the producers, Rupert Sterling did many things in his life before dying in 2014. The write up is by noted DJ and critic Dermott Hussey who I think is still alive and might be the person to contact.
Given that Edward G. Knight is shown as a producer on other movies (his most famous being Smile Orange in 1976), I suspect he may be the most likely candidate to have kept a copy. I can't find more information on him, though, including whether he's still alive. IMDB links him to the American actor Edward Knight that died in 2009, I think IMDB is inaccurate there though as that Edward was the father of a member of The Brady Bunch, which was active in the same period when Edward G. Knight was running a club in Jamaica.
The movie is cited as the "brainchild" of Eddie Knight and Teddy McCook in a Jamaica Observer news article dated 2015. They were the owners of a nightclub called The Bronco (which was in Union Square in Kingston, and according to an article "self-destructed", it's not there anymore and probably hasn't been for decades). Eddie would be the Edward above, and Teddy McCook died in 2013. Calvin Lockhart died in 2007, too.
I fully believe this movie exists still, unless it was destroyed immediately after being shown. I just don't think it's in the hands of an active distributor, because if it was it'd have been released recently. It's likely in a private collection, which either bodes badly (if it's a collector, it could be anyone) or well (if it's an actor they might be more inclined to release it now).
I don't believe that will become lost at all, her album will sell in Japan by the bucket load and likely end up online in lossless within a matter of days.
I find that there's always music at risk of becoming lost. Right now there's quite a few bands that are releasing material that will no doubt become big one day, but what's out right now will be gone forever.
Ok, well the rules of this site are different to the license I suppose, but certainly no user of either can cry foul if their content is copied elsewhere because the license allows it. Although the lack of attribution would technically mean that the license is being broken.