Not lost but lost enough?

serpentnight
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Not lost but lost enough? Jul 4, 2022 16:08:16 GMT

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Post by serpentnight on Jul 4, 2022 16:08:16 GMT

I found a rare DVD set not long ago of the Japanese Gamera films as they appeared on Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Anyone who's ever followed MST3K knows it's a difficult series to collect for obvious legal reasons. The Gamera episodes in particular are known for having contention surrounding them. They actually appeared on Netflix a few years ago for a short time but were taken down before long, apparently due to objections from the property owners; (Gamera is taken pretty seriously in Japan). This set is the only official release the episodes have ever gotten and perhaps the only one there will ever be. The only digital availability to my knowledge is on YT and some lesser known vid sites in degraded resolutions. So while the episodes aren't lost they are unavailable enough that the number of people who would like to see them as originally presented may not be able to.

Does anyone else care to name some similar examples of scarcely available media?

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Not lost but lost enough? Jul 4, 2022 17:08:14 GMT serpentnight likes this

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Post by thevideotour1 on Jul 4, 2022 17:08:14 GMT

I don't think ZOOM episodes 101-104, 109, 112, 130, 134, 135 and 137-141 are not lost anymore, since episodes 109 and 112 were uploaded by some random user a year ago.

But ZOOM episodes 105-108, 110, 111, 113-129, 131-133 and 136 will be uploaded by other users, I hope!

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Not lost but lost enough? Jul 4, 2022 17:19:59 GMT extremewreck2000 and serpentnight like this

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Post by darkrage6 on Jul 4, 2022 17:19:59 GMT

Some TNBC shows like California Dreams and Saved By the Bell the New Class got DVD releases that are really expensive to buy these days due to going out of print(though I was able to get the complete series of the original SBTB for dirt cheap so that was pretty neat) and neither show has gotten any kind of streaming release so you have to go through unofficial means to see those episodes unless you don't mind spending loads of money. Same goes for season 2 of the Friends spin-off "Joey" which only ever got a DVD release in Canada, it will play on most US DVD players but it's rapidly gone up in price over the years to the tune of hundreds of dollars(I had to buy a bootleg set on Ioffer back in 2011 as season 2 was like 80 bucks at the least and it's only gotten worse since then) so most people will only ever see season 2 through unofficial means.

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Not lost but lost enough? Jul 6, 2022 9:29:13 GMT serpentnight likes this

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Post by extremewreck2000 on Jul 6, 2022 9:29:13 GMT

Arisa Good Luck, a 1999 OVA is a definite example of that & Hazel covered almost all that there is about it online & on the physical media she was able to acquire here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4yyD7G5SUs
It's a long, complicated story & even still, the VHS version is still lost, considering it may not just have the anime in its intended framerate, but possible other things like say, previews for other things or even a company logo that may lead to an even deeper rabbit hole than one may expect for such an obscure anime.

Post by serpentnight on Jul 4, 2022 16:08:16 GMT

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Post by extremewreck2000 on Jul 6, 2022 9:29:13 GMT

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