I thought it would be interesting to make a thread about media (usually from childhood) vaguely remembered, then searched for and actually quickly found. So there was ultimately no need to post in the Unidentified Media section of this forum.
For me, I had memories of a VHS tape I rented as a kid which was done in claymation. All that stuck with me was a rabbit singing something like "Brussel sprouts taste like worms!" So I did a search for that phrase and it turned out to be from an obscure 1993 Easter special called Follow That Bunny. The lyrics in the song were actually "Brussel sprouts, wake up worms!" which actually is stranger than what I even remembered. Apparently the rabbit was frustrated with his job of having to paint brussel sprouts on Easter eggs and wake up worms in the spring.
Post by forlornjackalope on Mar 5, 2021 19:43:00 GMT
I'm not sure if it would have been considered lost, but the uninterrupted opening theme to The Hook of Woodland Heights (1990) comes to mind. It was kind of like with Frankie Vinci's contributions to Sleepaway Camp in that the only way to hear it at the time was how it was in the film, and since the film (THOWH) has yet to get a widespread DVD release that presumably didn't include the soundtrack, it was likely lost to the ether until the band had it up on Myspace.
Unfortunately, since it didn't survive the MySpace failure merger two years ago, it just barely became entirely lost for good since backing it up myself. I can only hope the band still has their masters to be safe, since they had at least three other songs on their page, too. As far as movies go, I've probably come across a ton over the years on YouTube. I know one of them, The Basement (1989) was lost for over 20 years until it was picked up by Camp Motion Pictures for distribution after it was abandoned by the director. But, I don't think that counts since it was rediscovered. There's obscure shockumentaries I came across recently (box art only this far) that presumably never got released outside Japan and are extremely rare to where outside the uploader, I haven't see. A single collector or anyone who knows about the subject thoroughly has mentioned them as existing.
July 2022 Edit: A few months ago, someone found a promotional music video for the film featuring the band The Heartbeats. It's still on Youtube and is the best quality version we have of the song apart from the master copy. It's officially backed up on Archive.
I've found at least the last version of an obscure Microsoft Agent-powered software called "Aveo Attune" that was bundled with a few Dell computers in the early 2000s. The software that I found was in this Dell software CD on Internet Archive, as seen here: archive.org/details/dellapplicationscd
I've also extracted the Microsoft Agent character file & the sound files from the software on my Windows 2000 Virtual Machine in VirtualBox. This Microsoft Agent character is unique in that it didn't have it's own Text-to-Speech voice like other Microsoft Agent characters did, instead it used sound files which are a bit annoying. Here's a download link for the Microsoft Agent character file with it's associated sound files: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z1FQkvhA_HfeTVlQriX0z5vRAiqpKrFa/view?usp=drivesdk
Just about a month ago on my Doomworld Forum Thread about what "Lost Media" interests users of that site, Tetzlaff uncovered the demo version of the game GhostBlood which can be found with this link here:
As far as movies go, I've probably come across a ton over the years on YouTube. I know one of them, The Basememt (1989) was lost for over 20 years until it was picked up by Camp Motion Pictures for distribution after it was abandoned by the director. But, I don't think that counts since it was rediscovered.
Wait, hold up, there was a lost movie with the full version just lying around on YouTube the whole time?
Complaining about something is not the same as being surprised about it
I haven't found any lost media on my own. I hope I do someday. It would make me feel significant. Finding lost media is hard. I always wish I could find something so I could contribute more to the forum.
Complaining about something is not the same as being surprised about it
there was this short film I watched a few times called "The Black Hole" or something to that accord, and basically a man gets a hold of a paper with a hole in it which was a black hole and it that allowed him to grab things from the other side of walls. At the end, he uses it to get money from the safe of the workplace, and he crawls inside, but the paper falls off so he gets trapped inside.
Was gonna make a post about it, but found it in a few minutes with a quick Google search.
As far as movies go, I've probably come across a ton over the years on YouTube. I know one of them, The Basememt (1989) was lost for over 20 years until it was picked up by Camp Motion Pictures for distribution after it was abandoned by the director. But, I don't think that counts since it was rediscovered.
Wait, hold up, there was a lost movie with the full version just lying around on YouTube the whole time?
Yeah, someone either torrented the movie or they ripped their copy of the collection CMP put out and posted it. I'm surprised that it even got shared since outside the DVD collection release that's long out of print, I haven't seen anyone really talk about it, let alone share clips from it in a decade or so. You'd be surprised what's out there now. SOVHorror posted a trailer for another recently discovered horror movie called Metal Noir. I think you can still get copies from him and he did a podcast discussing how it was rediscovered and getting in touch with the director who I don't think saw it in close to 30 years. It's a fantastic story about how things can be hidden in plain sight.
Wait, hold up, there was a lost movie with the full version just lying around on YouTube the whole time?
Yeah, someone either torrented the movie or they ripped their copy of the collection CMP put out and posted it. I'm surprised that it even got shared since outside the DVD collection release that's long out of print, I haven't seen anyone really talk about it, let alone share clips from it in a decade or so. You'd be surprised what's out there now. SOVHorror posted a trailer for another recently discovered horror movie called Metal Noir. I think you can still get copies from him and he did a podcast discussing how it was rediscovered and getting in touch with the director who I don't think saw it in close to 30 years. It's a fantastic story about how things can be hidden in plain sight.
Yep. Death Bed: The Bed That Eats and Bat Pussy both have similar backstories. Neither of them were discovered on YouTube though.
Complaining about something is not the same as being surprised about it
Yeah, someone either torrented the movie or they ripped their copy of the collection CMP put out and posted it. I'm surprised that it even got shared since outside the DVD collection release that's long out of print, I haven't seen anyone really talk about it, let alone share clips from it in a decade or so. You'd be surprised what's out there now. SOVHorror posted a trailer for another recently discovered horror movie called Metal Noir. I think you can still get copies from him and he did a podcast discussing how it was rediscovered and getting in touch with the director who I don't think saw it in close to 30 years. It's a fantastic story about how things can be hidden in plain sight.
Yep. Death Bed: The Bed That Eats and Bat Pussy both have similar backstories. Neither of them were discovered on YouTube though.
Bat Pussy is fantasy lore levels of bizarre with their backstory. It kind of feels like it escaped from the ether and just popped up one day in our universe.
i had vague really weird memories of VVVVV and one day i kinda just found out about it randomly although the memories feel like a different game, like there were bosses, the main gimmick of flipping gravity wasn't there just jumping, except in some rooms, after all the bosses were power ups that looked like the collectables, ok you know what it was probably a different game that i don't remember fused with vvvvv in my memories also i only really watched my brother play it didn't play much myself maybe i can describe a little bit in a post on the unidentified forum
Last Edit: Jun 17, 2021 21:14:39 GMT by twigraainb
Post by wadmodderpudu on Jun 17, 2021 22:49:00 GMT
There's a few download links to alot of old Microsoft software made during the Windows XP era from 2001 to 2006 I've found on two Asian websites, one in Chinese & another in Korean.
None of these links works out of the box anymore, but these might work fine if you copy and pasted the links on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.