Hardest lost media to find at all

Good to know about, but I said NEAR impossible, not literally impossible.

The Kappa Mikey pilot came to mind when I read your thread. Not going to explain it here but I do recommend watching both of LSuperSonicQ's video about that topic.

i think its playing in the sand a lost movie i forgot some information

Something I'd like to see that will likely never be found are mid 2000s promos for Cartoon Network Latinoamerica in English. The only way to hear these is by setting your cable box's language to English or (in my case) your cable system having that as an alternate channel. I remember watching promos that could have never possibly aired in America due to context but noticing they were still being voiced in English by the normal people who would do VO for the channel at the time. I assume that they just recorded a huge amount of voice lines at once, even if they were intended for use for foreign versions of the channel.

Anyway, it's extremely unlikely that anything from this will ever emerge online because it's too niche. I legitimately think the odds of recordings existing at all are slim. There are so, so few cases of recordings of channels with alternate language options enabled. Sometimes it's been done to preserve a dub in recent years, but outside of that case, I can hardly think of an example.

That's like the only thing I can think of. When were those recorded? I actually never knew if it was a recording from that time or if Out of Jimmy's Head had been airing on CN Germany in 2023 and someone snapped up the episodes.

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.