It's believed that several Japanese (now-ancient) mobile flip phones have several games in them, many of which haven't been uploaded online or recorded. Due to various circumstances, these phones are becoming harder to come by.
Several used computers (e.g. towers, laptops, etc) that have used the internet might have leftover bits and pieces of old ancient flash games that might not be archived at archive.org, and may be of marginal interest of the Flashpoint project.
While it might be useful to acknowledge where certain lost media might have ended up, from my experience it's not a reliable way to find or get lost media released.
The biggest topic that comes to mind is something like the Blue Prints pilot. We know Nickelodeon has it and we know they've been posting short clips from it on Twitter but there's no way anyone at the company would leak it and there's no use contacting them because they won't answer. I remember years ago I tweeted a question to the official Nick Splat account about a piece of trivia they aired on screen and they never replied to me.
If you have any specific examples of what you're looking for I'd be interested in hearing about them.
Rebecca Hoye on her YouTube channel, uploaded the intro to The Adventures of Grady Greenspace (Originally a French/Canadian show called Les Enquêtes de Chlorophylle): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Grady_Greenspace but the footage was captured of her TV with her phone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOka5aY3EQ in the comment she said she had 4 episodes on VHS but that was back in 2014 and couldn't upload them so who knows if she still has them. People, including myself have been searching for English episodes for years with no luck other than the couple of promos for the show in English and this not so great intro clip that have been uploaded.
I know someone who MIGHT have the video files to Spooky Kitaro 5. It was the Animax Asia dub of the fifth Gegege no Kitaro anime series. They were an employee at Animax, and they used a 4shared account to post files from the different shows they worked on. But there's no telling if they still kept those files, since this was back in 2012. I tried contacting them back in April, and they never got back to me.
On that note, I believe that at least one episode of the Spooky Kitaro 4 dub was online at some point. Back in 2020, I contacted a user who had posted images from the series with the Animax channel watermark in the corner. They didn't have the episode, but they were fairly positive they watched it on a site like DailyMotion back in 2014.
These are the only leads I currently have. There was an active community trying to "preserve" Animax Asia dubs back in the mid 2010s, but they only recorded a select few series, and would constantly use file hosting sites like megavideo, making these files impossible to access now.
Post by forlornjackalope on Dec 26, 2021 17:38:06 GMT
The small rabbit hole around Blood Circus leads to the possibility that it was found (again), but Santo Gold is just struggling to find a distributor. I'm not sure how that's going since the news about that was well over 12 years ago by now. There's also Brad Jones' film Cancelled Sitcoms. If I remember correctly, it aired on at least one public access station in the Springfield area in the early 2000s before becoming lost to time and it's presumably not in Brad's collection anymore. I bring those up in case you don't explicitly mean stuff that's regionally locked or possibly exclusive. Like what Carbon said, there's a movie I'm blanking on that's been rumored to be somewhere in South America.
If we're just talking about that, here's two I can think of if these count.:
Horror director, collector, and YouTuber Jonathan Doe (Cinemas Underbelly) talked about the rarest pieces of media that he has in his movie and memorabilia collection in two videos as of this going up. In one of them, he showed off an interesting bootleg of cannibal and mondo films he managed to pick up while backpacking across Africa and the Middle East (IIRC). Shortly after his trip, the area started to heavily crack down on bootleg and pirated content; leading to a mass destruction of tapes and DVDs like the ones he had. It's unclear if anything that was destroyed could have been locally made or if anything rare was possibly lost.
Kuchisake-Onna (口裂け女 literally Mouth-Slitted Woman) from Ghost Stories is still likely in Japan somewhere. However, when I asked if anyone had more info about it on tumblr, at least two people claimed that it aired at least twice in Brazil despite the plug being pulled early overseas. One of them claimed it might be on Anitube, but I'm not sure.
I don't think this is a rumor, but I honestly do believe more headway would be made on missing JBVO stuff, if some old staff from the show were contacted. I looked through the IMDB listing, and a majority of the people listed stopped being in the animation industry. I found one woman who I thought would be helpful, but the only form of contact was a jewelry Facebook business page, and it felt rude to ask about her working on JBVO in the 90s through that page.
Edit: I also think combing through old recordings of Johnny Bravo can turn up JBVO stuff. Johnny Bravo had a weirdly big fandom in the 90s/early 2000s. I remember finding a ton of old fansites that had a personalized letter from the creator, and timelines of each Johnny Bravo event.
supersonic- well I mean i know several "lost" medias that are owned by companies that refuse to let it out for some reason, the infamous game of thrones unaired pilot is a major example. But sometimes there is lightning in a bottle where they get out like the zach snyder cut justice league having not only been locked away by warner bros but denied such a cut existed for a few years I think.
thank you, i will get back to you in the future with more details but for now I guess my job is to hunt down all lost media but my main personal focus is unaired pilots
carbon freeze-thanks, never heard of that before
dxmax-I myself just did some searching, couldnt really find much.
media-
i would have to look into that thanks
forlorn- thanks I bought a book in the hopes it would have revealed the location of a vampire movie that came out before nosferatu and dracula but they didnt reveal the location, well exact location I mean
i wonder why they got destroyed, were they illegal in the countries he found them?
co- by jbvo I take it you mean unaired mess o blues pilot?
The Wilkins Coffee commercials are a good example of rumored lost media since we don't know how many ads were made and how many does the Jim Henson Company have archived. Also the film "El Apostol" there are rumors that there are some rolls from the film in a museum in Tierra de Fuego, Argentina.
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