Completely random, and this might not be in the place it should be, but does anyone happen to have any/all .swfs of David Lynch’s Flash series “Dumbland”? You can find the episodes themselves just fine, but I can’t seem to find the .swf files anywhere. The archive.org of its AtomFilms page where it was hosted (that supposedly housed a download to 2 of the episodes is broken) as is access to the episodes housed on Lynch’s site, as well as being locked behind a paywall.
There is quite literally no reason for my asking of these. I am legitimately just curious at looking at the .swfs of the series.
I'm going to download all of the episodes off of Dailymotion sometime a little later today, after I've gotten some sleep, and upload them to the Internet Archive, and maybe a Google Drive as well, so they become a bit more accessible and hopefully never lost.
And just remember, this is a creation by David Lynch, so it's weird as hell, to say the very least.
Last Edit: Dec 27, 2023 13:14:22 GMT by jbosco1982: Clarification And Grammar Correction
I’ve seen the episodes before— they’re very easily accessible. What I’m looking for is that actual, like, Flash files for them. When they were first distributed around. If those even exist.
Last Edit: Dec 28, 2023 7:14:33 GMT by halbertstram
I’ve seen the episodes before— they’re very easily accessible. What I’m looking for is that actual, like, Flash files for them. When they were first distributed around. If those even exist.
Problem is, as far as I've been able to find, the original videos from the original uploads to David Lynch's old official site and AtomFilms are long gone, having not been preserved on the Wayback Machine, and weren't preserved anywhere else online in their original .swf forms. It seems that the only surviving versions are the .mp4 files from Dailymotion, as well as a single upload of episode 3 on Youtube that's also .mp4, and the overpriced DVD that's available on Amazon.
Unless someone downloaded them at some point when they were still accessible and somehow comes across this thread, or .swf versions are tucked away on some very deep and dark corner of the internet that I haven't found yet, I think those .mp4 files and the DVD are all we're gonna have of this series.
EDIT: Right after I posted this reply, I did some more digging on davidlynch.com through the Wayback Machine, and found where you could watch and download many videos for free, including the first 2 episodes of Dumbland. However, the videos are empty and don't play, and were in .mov format, not .swf. I'm guessing that official .swf versions never existed, unless it was the format used on another site that may have hosted the videos at one point. Again, though, I haven't seen anywhere else that hosted them back when they were still up on davidlynch.com or AtomFilms, so as far as I know, .swf versions actually never existed for Dumbland, or any of David Lynch's videos from his website at the time.
Last Edit: Dec 29, 2023 6:24:52 GMT by jbosco1982: Found new information that needed to be added