Post by curiouscrimson on Jul 16, 2021 17:11:32 GMT
Here's a little creative writing project: make up a lost media story. Provide a fake description for something that doesn't exist. Make it as believable as possible.
Post by surrealkangaroo on Jul 16, 2021 22:49:19 GMT
Hanna-Barbara All Star Weekend
On the weekend of July 11-12 of 1998, Cartoon Network ran a 48-hour marathon of Hanna Barbara shows with specially made bumpers of the animated characters interacting with live action people on a college campus. No bumpers from this marathon have ever been found.
Racer J was an animated kid's show that was set to air in the summer season of 1982/1983. The show involved the titular 'J' and the adventures of him, his friends, and his talking red race car. About 10 episodes were made but only one aired. Apparently, it was surrounded by bad luck and nobody really saw it or paid attention to it.
Unfortunately, and this only adds to the mysteriousness about it, the creator of the show died in an auto accident shortly after the show premiered. Since it was a failure and the director sadly died the rest of the show was shelved.
Very very few bits of the show exist online nowadays, including a poorly captured theme song and a bit of the first episode. Other than that, the entire series is lost. Some believe that there's a good reason it's never been found. because of the tragic death of the creator, anyone who watches the show will have bad luck fall upon them. It's probably false but given that it's such a mysterious lost show one has to wonder...
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It was the 90s, and Nickelodeon was just picking up steam. A marine biologist pitches a show concept to the network, and they reluctantly greenlit it. The pilot was made, aired a few times, but the show faded into relative obscurity.
Sal Demetri: whats going on?: comedian Sal Demetri made a number of late night comedy specials while living in new york from the late 90s to early 2000s with his company TurningTables studios. one of these was Sal Demetri's Whats going on? and was aired a number of times in 1998 but due to poor ratings and Turningtables themselves being infamous for making poor physical media for their content until changes were made in the 2000s. despite this though whats going on? was poorly preserved, leaving it to be damaged and far from restoration. only production photos exists
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Laughing by drunkdrivin. drunkdrivin was a band that ran from 1984 to 1989 consisting of bill J. stone on drums, phil jackson on bass, and Jermaine McQueen on vocals/guitar, with their mix of alternative rock, funk, and psychedelic rock, they gained a cult following. they final album laughing was being in development in 1988 and planned to be released later that year but fights with the band on their sound and with their label, it left the band with problems that led to the demise of laughing and the band splitting in 1989. since then only the tracklists are whats known about which include:
Post by AshleyInWonderland on Jul 26, 2021 12:40:43 GMT
I don't remember the show but there was this weird "kids" show, kids in quotation because im honestly not sure.
Here's what I remember: it was a semi live action show with animated portions throughout the show often would have dark premises like a room where bad kids would go to if they misbehaved on the show, this would often give me nightmares but it was played off for laughs.
If i remember correctly one of the episodes was called "Behave for goodness sakes" it aired sometime in the mid 2000's.
Post by forlornjackalope on Jul 26, 2021 20:58:44 GMT
The I-90 / License Plate / Checkpoint Killers Recordings:
The I-90 Killers is a murder theory proposed by half a dozen highway patrol stations in the continental United States and leading forensics experts to explain a connection between nearly 50 unsolved homicides that have taken place along Interstate 90 between 1986 and 1997.
The theory gained traction around the summer of 1991 by Detective Cpt. Jonathan Albright [IA, Retired] following the identification of a pair of double-homicide victims [Langford-Martinez] in the Butte, Montana area earlier that year. According to an interview Albright conducted with KDRQ in South Dakota a decade later recanting the investigation, he said that the Langford-Martinez case was a definitive game changer for the multiple state departments and the FBI at the time because it presented damning enough evidence to suggest that this was the work of a minimum of two people and it was incredibly unlikely that this was the work of a solo killer. Albright also reiterated a comment that had been circulating around online true crime communities that the locations in which the victims were found may add a more credibility to this notion, stating that (1) the majority of the victims were found at drop-off locations in secluded areas within 0.5-3 miles of the nearest street light and (2) all of these lights were in close or immediate proximity to possibly checkpoints that the killers could have used to their advantage to scope out potential targets.
They would have been hidden in such a way that they were likely to have gotten a good look at their targets, but also remain secluded to where they wouldn't draw attention to themselves. One of these locations, which Albright and others pointed out, would have given the perpetrators enough shelter from the treeline to stay out of sight at night and enough of a vantage point to get an overview of any drivers without being seen. The theory continues on that they may have lured victims into pulling over by means of an unregistered or unmarked squad car as an easier means to get them to cooperate. Supporters of this theory add that if there was one victim, one perpetrator would stand in the event they were needed for back-up, otherwise, they would be called to dispose of any necessary evidence; such as the bodies or possible identification. A lesser known theory adds that the perpetrators, once stripping the car of basic registration and identification, would swap the license plates of the victims' cars in order to throw off investigators. This possibility came up in late 1995 when a car found abandoned in Indiana with a Pennsylvania license plate with expired tags and several scratch-off tickets that were traced to a convenience store in West Virginia. This theory has been dismissed by the majority of investigators, professional and amateur.
A theory that was misattributed to Albright in 2002 via the true crime blog and book series called "Nameless For Evermore" suggests that the perpetrators utilized police dashcam techniques to record their killing sprees. The blog, which was reportedly never archived, was rumored to have included a few low quality screenshots from said VHS recordings. The validity of the photos and the information from the blog hosts were called into question, as many were able to debunk several of the photos as being fake or connected to other unrelated crimes; such as the M Lady Tapes by Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, or ripped from films like Banned in America and Death File. One photo, however, had Internet sleuths stumped as to its dubious origins and currently remains lost. Due to the unreliable nature of NFE's reporting, it's unclear whether or not their theory holds water, and if so, if the alleged recordings still exist. To date, after nearly three decades and thousands of interviews with persons of interests, no leads have been formally named or identified and the cases, while still considered open, have gone cold.
Post by extremewreck2000 on Jul 27, 2021 2:52:14 GMT
Oof I got a few of them to put off:
#1: The Adventures of Zander And Klanky was an animated series created by Vollenjo Entertainment that aired on syndication from 1991 to 1992 for an unknown amount of episodes. While not much is exactly known about it, it is said to have been the US of state Tennessee's first attempt at their own original TV show that wasn't a public access show. No footage, or screenshots have survived of it. It's said that someone found footage of it in Hebrew, but that remains unconfirmed. The show was said to have limited animation similar to those of pre-Hanna Barbera cartoons, only that the intro had even worse animation than the actual episodes themselves. According to a writer on the show, James Klorndania, every voice actor was an intern they got off the streets as nobody else in their area knew about voice acting, or how to do it.
Vollenjo Entertainment would disappear right after the show stopped airing, & the only 2 countries known to have aired it outside of the US were Israel, & South Africa. Many of the people credited have only done work on this show as well, with the only exception being show producer Kevin Leives, who would go on to work with Cartoon Clash, an animation studio in Nevada around the late 1990s up until 2016. Everyone else, outside of the mentioned Klorndania, has vanished off without a trace, with voice actor Ed Melgans reported to have died around 1998.
#2: Lazer Commandos was a 128K ZX Spectrum game released in 1987 by Mankaft Studios exclusively in Denmark as a budget game. The game is claimed to have played like a vertical R-Type mixed with graphics similar to that of post-1948 Chuck Jones cartoons. One source claims that the game sold around 8,000 copies throughout its 2 years on store shelves. Another source says that a lawsuit from Uvarko Corp. over copyright of the in-game music being similar to the theme song to Wire Mean led to the game no longer being sold by 1989.
Dreams are boundless, imaginations are infinite, space is a multi-directional spiral & Akazukin ChaCha is my favorite anime
“Meta Knight” was an amateur fan film made by a group of college aged Kirby fans about the titular character. It was originally hosted on youtube and vimeo and it had a mostly positive reception from fans. However the fan film was later taken down allegedly for copyright reasons and it faded into obscurity. It’s currently unknown if anyone in the group had still kept a copy of the fan film. The only things left of this fan film is the plot and some screenshots saved from an defunct fan website.
You've heard of a day with spongebob, now get ready for a day with everyone's favorite 10 year old boy with faires. Includes a musical number called "we must run from crocker so he does not steal our faires"
I have a few realistic made-up lost media stories I would like to share, with some being based on dreams I had: 1. Jason Donovan-Every Day (I Love You More) (lost uncensored version of music video, 1989)- A version of the music video exists where there were two spoken word scenes that are shown at the beginning, but they were cut off due to disturbing content. It only aired once during an episode of "The ITV Chart Show" and never aired again! * 2. Untitled Michael E. Rodgers cartoon (1997-1999?)- In 1997, UPN aired a cartoon that was created by Scottish actor Michael E. Rodgers. The symposis is a modernized version of the creator's childhood. Sadly, no footage of this cartoon has been recovered because the FCC hated it so much that they demanded UPN to cancel the show and the cartoon's animation studios (Film Roman and CINAR) to destroy all copies of it, and many UPN viewers didn't record it because it aired late at night, at the time most people are sleeping! 3. Michael E. Rodgers: To Heck and Back (1994 album)- In 1994, Michael E. Rodgers decided to try singing, so he made an album called "To Heck and Back" (which features the song of the same name). Sadly, it wasn't released because the song "To Heck and Back" was so controversial and edgy that nobody liked it! Music videos for the songs of the album were made, but they only aired once on MTV and never again. 4. Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z (DiC Entertainment dub, 1993-1996)- Prior to Funimation getting the rights to DB and DBZ, DiC Entertainment got the rights to the two shows and decided to make a dub for syndication. It was censored, but it wasn't frequent and/or was easily unnoticeable by casual viewers, and the voice actors are the same voice actors from the DiC dubs of "Sailor Moon" and "Saint Seiya", but they putted on better performances here. Sadly, all copies were destroyed by Funimation because they didn't like it and preferred the Ocean dubs, so no footage has been surfaced to this day. 5. Codename: Sailor V (lost anime adaption of manga and Family Home Entertainment dub, 1993)- An anime adaption of Codename: Sailor V was completed in 1989, but it never aired. Despite this, it had an English dub that was made by Family Home Entertainment for a direct-to-video release, and it includes the Ocean Group voice pool. For the VHS release, it includes interviews with the main cast of this dub, with some B-roll footage. Sadly, the dub went out of print, and it is very hard to find. * 6. CBS Kids live-action interstitials (1997-2000)- During the "CBS Kidz", "Think! CBS Kids", and "CBS Kidshow" eras, there were live-action segments that played during commercial breaks. One of the segments includes Michael E. Rodgers and a lookalike of his connecting aluminum tubes together to make a fort. Sadly, they fell into obscurity. * 7. WildBrain (lost on-screen logos, 1997)- When the WildBrain company debuted in 1997, they made an on-screen logo that they never used. It starts out with a blur, before it clears to see a white background with a lower half of a boy's head, while the upper half it replaced by other things (like a goldfish bowl, a stuffed unicorn, etc, similar to the Noggin logo). No footage of this logo has been spotted. * *- Based on a dream I had
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5. Codename: Sailor V (lost anime adaption of manga and Family Home Entertainment dub, 1993)- An anime adaption of Codename: Sailor V was completed in 1989, but it never aired. Despite this, it had an English dub that was made by Family Home Entertainment for a direct-to-video release, and it includes the Ocean Group voice pool. For the VHS release, it includes interviews with the main cast of this dub, with some B-roll footage. Sadly, the dub went out of print and it is very hard to find.*
Kind of made me want to think about something similar:
Codename: Omega And the Saturn Strikers (partially found Australian animated series and American English dub; 1994-1996, & 1995-1997 respectively); Ever wonder what would happen if you were to have Sailor Moon mixed with Star Wars, Commander Keen, & Filmation's Ghostbusters? Well, you get Codename: Omega And the Saturn Strikers, which involves 5 warrior men from planet Saturn that are destined to fight against the evil Dr. Zlormon, & his sidekick, Wevannis, a cyborg from planet Uranus. The 5 warriors are Kevin Omega, a Luke Skywalker expy, Jack V. Dorranigus, a Sailor Venus expy, Henry Dovazzin, a Sailor Mars expy, Pazzo Jurgo, a Sailor Mercury expy, & Apespitter, an expy of the gorilla from Filmation's Ghostbusters. Oh, & there's Uranot Klazzer, who fills in the role of Tuxedo Mask, except instead of being an expy of him, he's a teenage dude who speaks in pop-culture references, & always has flip-flops on. Okay, this is just some random dude's rule 63 Sailor Moon crossover fanfic made into an actual cartoon.
Dreams are boundless, imaginations are infinite, space is a multi-directional spiral & Akazukin ChaCha is my favorite anime
It was a animated romance drama type show where a girl was heavily depressed and suicidal so she hired a hitman to kill her. He refused and took her to live with him and provided her with therapy and help and they fell in love.
It was a weird combination my brain produced likely due to the media I was watching/reading/whatever-ing: Angel of Death (suicidal girl who wants someone to kill her, no romance though) and Korean romance dramas. I found it so interesting that I searched for similar romance dramas but couldn't find anything.
In a weird twist of events, it produced actual lost media, albeit personal. I drew up concept art for it that I no longer have. I would love to revisit the idea, maybe at a later date.
