Lost Media Found in the Strangest Ways | blameitonjorge

Today, we're going over pieces of lost media that were found in the more bizarre/coincidental ways.
Written by: Matt Acuña
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00:00 Intro
01:02 Conflict
06:14 Metropolis
09:17 Doctor Who
13:13 SCP-173
16:31 Wake in Fright
19:31 The Passion of Joan of Arc
22:25 Short Subject
Music:
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Lost Media Found in the Strangest Ways | blameitonjorge
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Twitter: @blameitonjorge Other videos you might like: The Lost Media Iceberg kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrZp5unapx1oas A Bizarre Lost Kids Show - The Search For Pink Morning Cartoon kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4jTmGSsdqeag8U Side note: I’ve lightened my stance on list videos. I won’t become a list channel again, but I don’t mind throwing in these sort-of compilation videos. Expect more on lost media and mini internet mysteries (not sure if its the next video though)

[@spongenick]

yes finally

[@shotguncreeper]

List videos are still great!

[@evilweevil58008]

Hi

[@ryann1635]

Hi

[@gabeman]

6th

[@aitsu_nojayjay]

The ironic thing about Metropolis is that now people are completely fine with movies being over 150 minutes long

[@gomi5469]

Endgame is quaking

[@involvedhail1788]

Don’t forget the 4 hour long Snyder cut

[@patricklee1633]

Star Wars movies are usually at least 3 hours long.

[@noodles7193]

@@patricklee1633 there actually is no star wars movie that’s 3 hours long

[@Backgroundcow]

Sorry you have the attention span of a toddler.

[@ephraim_]

King: THIS IS A BOMB! Mailman: Your Highness, this is a letter-- King: BOMB!!!!

[@bornencornen]

KING: "it's signed by a...Mr. Kaczynski"

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

IT'S A BOMB!!!!!!! Oh wait, I'm alive!

[@Arg69420]

Tactical nuke INCOMING!!!!!

[@claudiobizama5603]

OH MY GOD JC! A BOMB!

[@mrsuns10]

@@bornencornen yeah that’s him

[@colette2529]

that Mr Rogers episode was incredibly thoughtful and respectfully done (as always), and it would've benefited a lot of children and families had it not been pulled.

[@ohioboy1878]

I think releasing the episode at the original time it aired was completely tone deaf

[@colette2529]

@@ohioboy1878 Interesting take. I disagree because the news was already full of speculation about nuclear war. I don’t think it’s disrespectful to try and untangle a pressing current event for a younger audience. Out of curiosity, do you feel the same way about The Day After?

[@prixe12]

@@ohioboy1878 Some anvils need to be dropped, it's not as if kids didn't know about the bomb threats, better to let them know how to handle things like this in a rational manner than to try to shield them from the inevitable.

[@kkondor1081]

@@prixe12 "some anvils need to be dropped" I wonder how you'll feel when it's your head it's being dropped on. Nuclear war is unnecessary and evil.

[@SpringDavid]

@@ohioboy1878 meanwhile I do belive that not being cautious in the cold war couldve started a nuclear war, the message of "dont get paranoid, it only will make things worse" ABSOLUTELY was necessary for both sides

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I love Jorge's videos because you can rewatch them over and over again as background noise without it getting repetitive

[@chickennugget9852]

Love to listen to it while doing other things

[@repotra]

Multitasker, huh?

[@AGZhark]

Like ExioparadigmGamer’s videos

[@hotpikachusex]

@@repotra no i just play bitlife, not a task

[@highwaymanywain4941]

wow and here i thought i was the only one lol

[@inserthahafunniusername9656]

Can I just say how I love that kid who recorded Dr Who episodes way back in the infancy of video recording? Kid didn't even let his mom come into his room so he can get as clean audio as possible. I have so much respect for him

[@MandleRoss]

Which means he was recording the TV screen with a video camera set up in front of it.

[@Bardlythebard]

Sadly back then most home video recorders back in the 60’s were 8mm and 16mm hand crank cameras so the majority of home recorded doctor who clips are in quite bad condition. But the kid who sat and recorded every episode only recorded the audio, so thanks to him we have audio recordings of every missing episode :)

[@MandleRoss]

@@Bardlythebard It's quite the more modern version of archeology except uncovering the more recent past. I'm interested!

[@user-oq9pz6tt9x]

I do too! I did stuff like that a lot, so I can relate to him not wanting his mom to come in.

[@inserthahafunniusername9656]

@@user-oq9pz6tt9x much respect to you dear sir/madam/other

[@sunolili862]

"no one knows how a German movie ended up in Argentina" oh really? No idea?

[@blacktooth3336]

I get it!!!

[@madkirk7431]

@@blacktooth3336 oh wow who woulda geussed

[@Nelkhael1]

It remains a mystery to this day. LOL

[@Chactemal]

It was found in a private collection of 1920s movies by the Film Museum of Buenos Aires, including parts of argentinean and other foreign movies. No nazis you morons.

[@carolinagirotto9466]

@@marc8131 A lot of nazis fled from germany to south america overall

[@Lizzie-ve7kt]

I love that Mr Rogers never condescended to his audience and his statement about how these kids watching his show will one day be the adults determining policy and making important decisions was a really wonderful way to reiterate how important learning the lessons he taught on his show were in shaping tomorrow’s leaders. He never underestimated the intelligence and ability of children and I have nothing but respect for him.

[@thomasmotooka2937]

Agreed. I do believe now that Mr Roger's knows that Trump wasn't the one to direct this episode to. He was one of those truly virtuous people that has their moral compass pointing in the right direction.

[@residentlucifer]

@divinelightshinewhat?? 💀 im a conservative (as well i assume) but how is that woke? 💀💀

[@ph03beuwu]

nobody mentioned politics, get that outta here@@thomasmotooka2937

[@ph03beuwu]

how lmao@divinelightshine

[@two-to-tango]

@divinelightshine???

[@MrRadar]

It's actually well-known how Metropolis ended up in Argentina. At the time the film was originally released in Germany, an Argentine film distributor was in Germany looking for films to pick up and bring back to Argentina to show (the German film industry being an international match for Hollywood at the time). He caught a showing of Metropolis within its first month of being released and bought a print right then and there to bring back with him when he returned, before the cuts for the official international release were made. The film was exhibited in Argentina (we know this because the records of the Argentine censorship board contain a complete transcript of the film's translated intertitles, including the scenes cut for the official international release) and after it had finished its run the distributor retained a copy for his personal collection. This copy was the one you mentioned being shown in the 60s and 70s. After the film distributor died, his collection of films was donated to the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires. Upon the donation, the museum decided to copy all of his films that were on volatile nitrate film stock (which would have been virtually every film made before the motion picture industry switched to safety film in the 1950s) to new safety film stock so they did not have to deal with the worry that their film collection would spontaneously go up in flames. Unfortunately for us, they did this copying on the cheap which meant that they a) copied all 35mm films onto 16mm film (which significantly reduced the quality and cropped portions of the image off) and b) didn't clean the films before they made the copies (which meant any dirt and scratches on the film were be permanently "baked" into the new copy). This meant that when it was discovered that this was the only surviving copy of the original version of the film it required some of the most significant restoration work of any film ever. EDIT: As for Jason Scott, it's likely he decided to archive 4chan on a whim and just forgot about it. He does that kind of thing all the time. For example, a few years ago he was working his way through and uploading a collection of podcasts he had archived in 2005-2006 when "podcasting" was still a new concept and pretty much nobody was making money from them or cared about them (especially their preservation). It's also possible that someone else in the "data hoarding" sub-culture who was an acquaintance with Jason Scott gave him the dump of 4chan posts to upload on their behalf (for any number of reasons, such as not wanting to let it be known they were archiving 4chan or because they were embarrassed about having been involved with 4chan, etc.). If you want to know for sure, he's pretty easy to get ahold of on Twitter, IRC, or his Discord server.

[@piepivotmonitor5986]

He's got a comment on this video about it.

[@Vizivirag]

Many thanks!

[@rrrrafi.k]

nice book

[@stproducciones9140]

Argentine authorities doing things cheaply and incompetently as usual

[@riqopowpow]

But muh nazzisssss!!!11!!

[@StabTheDabb]

Here's a useless LM fact: The original Bob The Builder pilot was made before the show officially greenlight and was thought to be forever lost UNTIL mid December of 2020 when a fan asked one of the producers of the original show if the pilot existed. He had a copy of the pilot and was later posted on The Lost media wiki and KZbin

[@SpiralPoliFemboy]

Some times Lost Media is very easy to find, and in others it's nearly impossible.

[@bladeobrian2144]

That’s not useless, that’s awesome!

[@StabTheDabb]

@@SpiralPoliFemboy Like the Thomas pilot that's still lost to this day. Edit: It does exist In Mattel’s Archives but it’s believed to be in terrible condition.

[@SpiralPoliFemboy]

@@StabTheDabb I want to see that. There also are many lost WWE matches from the 90s and 2000s. Episodes of Sunday Night Heat from 1999 - 2008 were seemingly lost, and only some tapings were found on KZbin. I met someone who said that they saw saw Hardcore Holly vs Tommy Dreamer match on that show and i can't find it on the internet, and I have verified with others that this happened, so this must be a lost wrestling match, which sucks since I never got to see Holly and Dreamer wrestle eachother, and those are my two favorite wrestlers. There are hundreds of lost WWE matches that I'm heartbroken to see lost since I'm so passionate about it. Yes it's scripted but there is incredible acting and athletic skills involved.

[@joshhale9355]

@@SpiralPoliFemboy aren’t a bunch of stuff from the territory days lost as well? Like, even matches that appeared on regional television stations?

[@Jiji-the-cat5425]

The Mr. Rogers one is actually kinda scary, because things were getting really bad when that Episode was made. In 1979 the Cold War really began to escalate again, and both sides in the early 80's began putting hundreds of missiles in Europe. Europeans were horrified, since so many close calls and false alarms were becoming common. Government crises were occurring, planes were shot down, ships were ramming into each other, whole countries fought each other. And at this stage, both sides could obliterate each other (and literally wipe out the Earth) way more than they used to, in minutes. Things looked really grim. Which is why the episode probably was deep to people then, though frankly also necessary.

[@Zenocius]

Good ol' times, now we have crap like baby shark.

[@augustuzmoon3814]

@@Zenocius Be a guard Be a prisoner did very bad things Baby shark on KZbin Baby shark being use to torture inmates incident 2020

[@HYP3M0D368]

Damn 1 of my fav animes were made then

[@thomaz3235]

@@Zenocius The funniest part is that it is coming from Nyarlathotep

[@SynZ777]

"Politicians hide themselves away ; They only started the war; Why should they go out to fight?; They leave that role to the poor; Time will tell on their power minds; Making war just for fun; Treating people just like pawns in chess" -- Black Sabbath 1970

[@LilypadPanda]

In my opinion, some of the funniest instances of Lost Media becoming, well... un-Lost Media are when the internet goes absolutely *insane* trying to track something down: reverse-engineering source code, using cross-referencing and triangulation to pinpoint locations, trawling through miles of archives with a fine-toothed comb to get even the slightest scrap of information...and then it turns out the creator had it all along, and just didn't think anyone would be interested. Like - "You never asked, lol."

[@juanrosales7767]

I was looking for this exact comment and yeah, that is pretty hilarious. I like those instances, it happened a couple of times with obscure children shows.

[@m0ddotrar]

Or the whole ordeal with the evil farming game thing...

[@ricochet0928]

"We cut to Prince Tuesday at school, where they're learning about war. Most kids are horrified, while Prince Tuesday is kinda into the idea of it." *What the heck, Prince Tuesday???*

[@deleggeren6977]

Tuesday, day of Mars, Mars being associated with war

[@haleandguu]

ill remember this next time my daughter is watching daniel tiger 🧐🤔

[@HermitKing731]

George Bush in school.

[@TheBronyBraeburn]

This is why I love lost media. It doesn't matter how "good" the thing is, people just search for it. If they find it, they pat themselves on the back for a job well done and continue the search for others.

[@mistertagomago7974]

I mean which of these would you say wasnt good? Metropolis, Wake in Fright, and The Passion of Joan of arc are masterpieces.

[@TheBronyBraeburn]

@@mistertagomago7974 I wasn't trying to imply that anything listed in this video was subjectively bad. Only that the search for lost media isn't limited to just things that are universally considered worthwhile. The community celebrates finding a poorly made Z-grade film as well as a well-known classic film of high regard.

[@mistertagomago7974]

@@TheBronyBraeburn That's true. Just seemed odd on a video full of things that are all highly regarded lol.

[@mjkg6026]

@@mistertagomago7974 would’ve been better if wake in fright was just destroyed.

[@mistertagomago7974]

@@mjkg6026 How so? Because it exposes the grimy side of Australia?

[@surprisedchar2458]

“Metropolis’ original German cut was found to be in Argentina.” Yeah that sounds about right. Lots of German things that wanted to stay hidden tend to wind up there.

[@thepikminbrawler1746]

My thoughts exactly. A lot of Germans fled there after or during WW2 so I wasn’t that surprised

[@happyfacefries]

Dayum

[@thepikminbrawler1746]

@Alejandro López I guess I am stupid enough. Could you explain why that's such a ridiculous idea? I'm genuinely curious

[@IvuEvans]

@@thepikminbrawler1746 Argentinian here, Nazis werent the only German people who came here, people tend to forget that this country accepted ALL refugee during the war, both italians, germans, jewish and so on, a HUGE number of german refugee came here BEFORE or DURING the war, there's a big community of German people living here and at least 80% of them came fleeing from Hitler. and most important to all of this: this movie was criticized for being "communism propaganda" and if thats true then thats a film Nazis WOULDNT want to keep

[@thepikminbrawler1746]

@@IvuEvans I’m not sure if you meant to reply to the other guy or not but I said Germans in the original comment. I know it says it was edited but that was to fix a random spelling error I never said Nazi’s in particular

[@soyjoyy]

Sometimes I wonder whether I have something considered "lost media" in my possession without even knowing it

[@AKA_Lauren]

Aye, you never know until you go on the wiki

[@puppyspunx]

if this video was made today, "Everyone Knows That" would definitely be here.

[@BlueOysterStan]

“King Friday takes all the bomb parts, and turns them into a record player for the school.” 🧐

[@ddjsoyenby]

"zero hour"

[@cosmicjenny4508]

Huge fucking record player if he was gonna make a million bombs.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

OK, did King Friday just made the first DJ set? That record player's gonna be HUGE!

[@gracecarter2173]

@@cosmicjenny4508 maybe he only used some of the parts to make the record player, and put the rest of the parts in storage. That’s my guess

[@vizthex]

makes me wonder why he was making such a small bomb lol

[@DarcyWalker]

Getting a blameitonjorge notification is like opening a gift you've been wanting for a while

[@Stumpstump]

LEGIT

[@ConnorDrawss]

YEAHH

[@newo30k48]

FORREALLLLL 🤣🤣🤣

[@lyndseythomas115]

Yes

[@Liliputian07]

heheheheheheh blame it on george

[@morgantorium]

For anyone who's interested, the silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc was accompanied by music that was succesfully revived and released with the full copy, but Richard Einhorn composed an alternative score with a lot of historical depth that can be played at the same time. It's honestly gorgeous.

[@MergeConflicts]

In regards to Jason Scott's archive of 4chan threads, he held onto them for so long because he was apparently told to not release them publicly, though he's stated that he always intended to release them at some point.

[@xanderguyer7512]

The Mr. Roger's episode seems very important. It's teaching young children how to deal with/understand very real concepts that might be scaring them. Censoring that seems misguided.

[@generichuman2044]

I agree. A lot of parents probably had their children in front of the TV whilst news of possible nuclear war was being talked about and described in horrid detail. At least allow them to watch a children's show that will handle their worries in a delicate way

[@garlicsaucespill9482]

I agree, especially when young children may be doing bomb drills and such

[@bonelessbananna5410]

i belive the episode should have aired. Mr.rogers taught heavy subjects to children properly without scaring them and could have eased children viewers worries about the current possible nuclear war

[@MandleRoss]

According to this video, the episode did originally air and was only pulled from the series in the '90s due to political events at that time. Children in the most important era, the '80s when we thought a flash of light was gonna happen at any moment at random, saw the episode.

[@cosmicjenny4508]

That’s the establishment, for you. Can’t tell kids that war is bad or you’re an America-hating commie!

[@Digital_Her0]

Even Mr Rodger was not afraid to teach about conflict. He was respectful of children and their ability to understand conflict is ultimately bad instead of pretending everything is fine all the time.

[@dr.cocacola]

Facts. Kids shouldn't be told everything is perfect like many adults do.

[@dr.cocacola]

Pretending everything is fine doesn't prepare them for the horrors of the real world. It just endangers them more because they wont know to respond to certain situations.

[@ARC1300]

its more than that though, actually much uglier, at least now. its conflict for profit. these episodes are needed much more now than ever as many of the pointless conflicts we get into are often (from their point of view) told to us and justified as righteous acts of justice. when in fact all it is is a way to boost our power and wealth. none of which falls to its citizens.

[@rockhistoria2537]

@@ARC1300 yeah, just look at Twitter, Reddit, and damn even KZbin itself, if the words that are speaken are not handled in a cautious way, it can be the start of various discussions that may end on something that assembles a real war, just look at the infamous paper Mario soundtrack comment fight for example!

[@k-leb4671]

@@rockhistoria2537 What is this Paper Mario comment fight you speak of? I'd love to read it.

[@cpfs936]

Supposedly, the entire Monty Python TV series barely escaped being trashed or re-used. Glad somebody caught that one!

[@tailthen4357]

Random thing about Metropolis, the man who actually found the final print was born in the suburb I used to live in. It was very interesting to learn that someone who potentially went to the same high school I now go to helped restore this film!

[@TheChrisRolla]

“Nobody knows how or why the film turned up in Argentina” History Channel: I FU****G KNEW IT

[@RedOnly]

😉😉nobody knows how..... SHHHHHHH I.Said.Nobody.Knows.How. lol

[@cassiecraft8856]

I know. I knew right away that it was brought in by fleeing Nazis. Makes you wonder what else found its way to Argentina?

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@cassiecraft8856 Well, the fleeing Nazis were not known to be big fans of the "Jewish" director Fritz Lang. They might also have other things in mind as saving a movie with a "communist" message.

[@ColasTeam]

@@karlkarlos3545 A lot of jews escaped to Argentina and Italy too tho, and a lot of fascists were big fans of futurism and modern art, despite Hitler's and the high rank SS's official position.

[@spicypeppermint1039]

@@ColasTeam there were a lot of Nazis who were Nazis just in name

[@lordaustinking8366]

The irony of a movie about Joan of Arc being burned up in studio fires makes me chuckle a bit

[@justasentientmclarenp1879]

Took me way to long to get why you laughed at that

[@haydenthecactus2004]

I feel bad for laughing at this

[@manoflego123]

Honestly I found it equally if not more funny that a nearly immaculate copy was found in a mental hospital, considering that's where the real Joan of Arc would be found today lol.

[@Eeveefall]

It's not that surprising as alot of old films get easily burned. Film was very susceptible to fire. It's kinda like saying it's ironic that sugar melted in rain.

[@lordaustinking8366]

@@Eeveefall it’s ironic because Joan was burned to death at the stake and the film was also burned up my good man

[@lkblondie8061]

For The Passion of Joan Of Arc, I'm guessing they got a copy initially to play it for the patients. I'd assume they probably had more films for the same purpose.

[@Duckins12]

Yea this is almost certainly the case, as even some PRISONS still have the occasional movie night for inmates.

[@TheatypicalLife]

I think we need a part 3 exclusively for Everybody knows that 👀

[@Zulf85]

Of all the things that could be lost, an SCP being lost is honestly hilariously fitting

[@omarjimenez6861]

It is more than likely that a good bunch of SCPs were lost to time during the early days. People saw the original 173 and started making more, also on 4Chan. Eventually people created the site being used today, moving over a handful but not all SCPs written on 4Chan. Matter of fact is that some of these early articles still have unknown authors, so you get a double whammy of "lost articles" and "lost credits" for a handful of the original articles

[@gunman4936]

The scp foundation:a real nightmare

[@omarpikm2101]

recontainment

[@Mel-tx6in]

I still don't understand what an SCP is

[@omarpikm2101]

@@Mel-tx6in Basically just anomalous entity. Ranging from depression-curing orange blob(999) to Goofy Goober banned from school zones due to speeding

[@percyperanamus7432]

mister rogers was a real one , i miss him - what he did for children and children's television is monumental

[@joerose6945]

What does that mean?,.. a real one".?

[@asv1392]

@@joerose6945 Someone who regardless of the fact will stick by your side and help you in the simplest and most complicated situations, they drop what they doing to help you, comfort you, reassure you, and never leave your side.

[@percyperanamus7432]

@@joerose6945 like a genuine person, authentic

[@dementednun1175]

We never had him in Europe

[@leavemealonethx]

There's a documentary about his tv career called Won't you be my neighbor? I watched it when it came out and bOY is it sad

[@thatpersonmariah3997]

So, short story. I have my own lost media. A couple years back I made a Lego film with my mom. It was around half an hour long. After I accidentally edited it and lost all but 1 minute of the film. I deleted that. I might have had a chance to get it back if I had the foresight to look through my cloud backups, but nope. My first ever film is lost media. And that’s ok.

[@slickstache3035]

I have a similar story. When I was younger, my brother and I would make these short skits or films on our 3ds. There was one where we did a puppet show and I backed it up on my computer, but I don't know if I deleted the folder it was in or not. To this day, it is lost media of mine.

[@mayangel5315]

*fun fact: I have one of the original's Metropolis posters in my house :)*

[@PartnershipsForYou]

PHOTOCOPY IT AND PUT I TO ONLINE

[@lunahetfield]

Post it on the internet

[@mattiismouse1086]

@@PartnershipsForYou give me it

[@Arg69420]

Ok

[@larsvonrinpoche1229]

Ooooohhhhhhhh. Lucky one!

[@oneinathousand2156]

I’m waiting for the day when Disney releases the uncut violent version of the Black Cauldron, though that’s probably not lost so much as locked away. Unless they somehow managed to lose the footage, but i hope not. Of all the studios Disney has probably been the best at preserving their movies.

[@mariacortez9754]

What did the violent version consist of?

[@marinerman]

@@mariacortez9754 Namely extended scenes with more graphic depictions of death (soldiers’ melting into nothing), and slight more disturbing imagery (among other things).

[@ddjsoyenby]

that'd be cool.

[@Goleon]

Same goes for Song Of The South and the cut parts of that Fantasia short. Removing it doesn’t change the history connected to it and only makes it look like we’re trying to hide that part of it away like it never existed which is a bad thing as it prevents kids from learning why it’s now considered offensive. Plus they have that disclaimer in front of Fantasia so it makes no sense to keep the scenes removed as they’re the reason why for the disclaimer.

[@oneinathousand2156]

It seems there was definitely more blood than what has been seen in other animated Disney movies.

[@coreykirkbride]

The tragic irony of The Passion of Joan of Arc being lost in multiple studio fires is pretty apt.

[@rockhistoria2537]

Oof, poor Joan, at least we have still have her clone

[@k-leb4671]

@@rockhistoria2537 What?

[@rockhistoria2537]

@@k-leb4671 Clone high, also hi again :)

[@k-leb4671]

@@rockhistoria2537 I was considering Clone High as the reference, but I thought _"surely no one will reference Clone High in this comment section of all comment sections."_

[@rockhistoria2537]

@@k-leb4671 *_but we did_*

[@fluffcake]

Mickey in Vietnam was such a mysterious and alluring thing back before it was found, can't believe how mainstream it is now.

[@Solinaru]

15:52 - Jason Scott is one of the most prolific people when it comes to internet archiving. In a talk from 2008/2009 (I can't remember which one but I believe it was one of the mainstage Defcon talks about Archive Team) he mentions about having been in contact with people who actively archive 4chan posts. In the talk, he mentions that moot (the then admin of the site) asked that the drops of those archives be delayed by 5 yrs as a way to give space and time from the anons who posted and any possible personal information that would come out since 4chan moderation is so lax. Jason is one of the people on the internet that lost media people should be following. He's been the point of contact for many things and will point you to people you'll need to talk to or might be working on a project that needs hands and minds in figuring out what it is. As of this moment, his current project is going though a large container of VHS tapes that contain anime fansubs and digitizing every VHS. He needs people who know their anime to review the exports of these tapes and provide metadata (air date, series, possible recorded location, fansub group) for their eventual release into IA.

[@YangiTheCat]

Surprised he doesnt know about jason scott considering how much interest he has in lost media. Very interesting guy, hes an OG archivist.

[@Clay3613]

So they're letting people get away with crimes then?

[@reneyibowei2019]

It may have been recorded for data science or AI training looking at the tags (We should really do a PSA for data scientists, analysts and AI specialists to goive back their lost internet media that is sitting quietly on their hard drives!)

[@myguitardidyermom212]

The fact that so many of the effects on Metropolis still look good nearly 100 years later is insane. Some of the cityscape shots wouldn't look out of place in a modern movie

[@josephrowe849]

I only learned about the movie's existence thanks to Queen lol.

[@lelsewherelelsewhere9435]

I wonder if they were painted glass plates. That was a background technique used even in the 1970s star wars.

[@misscloud1293]

@@josephrowe849 Me too! Have you seen the version of the film that's slightly colourised with Queen music?

[@Phoebe5448]

I heard of Metropolis due to the anime by Osumu Tesuka.

[@withercat1801]

@@josephrowe849 I learned about it through Identity V. They have a skin line inspired by it

[@squidfrackr]

Imagine making a 4chan post on a whim and nearly a decade later people it's still influential enough for tons of people to work together to dig it up

[@ezekielwriter2620]

I wonder if the original poster is out there, looking at what he's created.

[@elijahblechman8633]

@@ezekielwriter2620 somebody tried copyrighting scp a while ago. Maybe it was the original poster.

[@ezekielwriter2620]

@@elijahblechman8633 I don't think so, wasn't it some Russian guy that wanted all the rights to it?

[@Blakbox92]

It's probably happened hundreds of times on much smaller scales, for a long time 4chan was super influential to internet culture. 4chan today is... not what it used to be.

[@criticaldrive97]

@@Blakbox92 I disagree, 4chan is still pretty influential as far as meme culture goes. Maybe not for reasons you'd want them to be, but they still have their impact on things

[@razzmatazz1974]

Actually, how the Metropolis copy ended up in Argentina is not a mystery. There is a documentary and a book about it by the person who rediscovered the copy, Fernando Martín Peña. In 1927, a movie theater owner was visiting Germany looking for movies to show in his Buenos Aires cinema. He attended the premiere and thought the movie would be a success in Argentina so he bought copies right away. These were the copies that were shown in the Argentinian premiere. This guy usually kept copies for his collection, these copies later made it to a Cinema club run by enthusiasts, but at some point were changed to 16 mm to save space. Fernando Martín Peña heard from an old movie collector and critic that the copies from the cinema club were donated to the Cinema Museum, and that they more than 2 hours long. Then Peña tracked the copies for years since the Museum was moved several times and a lot of their movies were still in unmarked boxes.

[@digitalchapel]

the clarity of the shots shown from Joan of Arc are absolutely haunting, and the story around it almost feels appropriate for a creepypasta.

[@marisafumo4469]

10:24 Wow! Little 12-year-old archivist. He might not have realized he was preserving episodes for future generations, but smart kid with lots of foresight, to put so much care in.

[@aswiftshift5229]

He probably just wanted to watch dr.who

[@cold_knees]

It's probably less foresight, and more that he knew he'd want to rewatch it himself in the future. Doctor Who wasn't available on any home media until "The 5 Doctors" was released on VHS in '85 (after which they began to release previous stories on VHS, and I assume they began looking for the lost stories/episodes). The only way to rewatch any Doctor Who in the 22 years prior to that would be if you had recorded it for yourself.

[@arjoyv1995]

I believe that there is a lot of lost media in the internet but it comes from smaller animators, I don’t mean like small budget studio animators, I mean fan animators or amateur animators like Eddsworld (early runs). I remember back in the early 2000’s, people on KZbin used Microsoft Paint to make extremely violent crude videos. You can’t find a lot of them anymore because they’re probably privated, deleted, or terminated for being embarrassingly edgy. Sad really.

[@RadikAlice]

The description immediately reminded me of stuff like Bob Esponja Mata A Patricio (Spongebob Kills Patrick) And while it's not lost media, Killerpollo could've easily been forgotten. I'm sure it's elsewhere, but Newgrounds hosted the Killing Spree series of flash stickfigure animations until it was removed along with some other early 2000s edgy content presumably for the sake of ads Real shame too, Killing Spree had rather good animation in the mid to late entries

[@rae4417]

Oh this reminds me of an early 2000's animated KZbin series called Snowy the Frost Man. It was edgy horror parody of Frosty the Snowman crossed with A Nightmare on Elm Street that unfortunately seems to be mostly lost. It feels like I'm the only person who remembers it.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

Yeah I feel like that with a lot of Newground shorts I use to watch as a kid

[@Cokenutz]

@@rae4417 I think it's behind a paywall now. Or maybe somewhere on the wayback machine.

[@Delete59187]

Yep. I try to download videos of creators im a fan of on youtube. & i highly encourage people do this for creators their fans of too, especially if they're niche. I really don't see this site lasting much longer, & society is going to lose so much of the late 2000s to early 2010s when it goes down.

[@ColdFuse96]

4:06 I don't know why, but this statement makes me feel really sad, for some reason......

[@dieyng]

In Germany, we had to watch Metropolis in school, when the topic of industrial revolution came up in our history lessons. Back then, it was still the unrestored version. I was 14 or so and I loathed it, absolutely loathed it. The only silent films I liked were Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, and the story made no sense. I think I was also too stupid and uneducated to appreciate the groundbreaking nature of the film. Then, when I was a young adult, the restored version was released, and it blew me away, the soundtrack, the effects, and it actually had a story, and it resonated with me, despite being so old and removed from my personal experience. Ever since it has become one of my favourite films, a film I suggest watching to anyone interested in film and in SF, and I am so thankful for the people who restored it and who found and/or offered the missing pieces. This is really an important part of cinema history, and only through their efforts can we really appreciate it now.

[@swilson5320]

Honestly that mr Rogers episode is kinda beautiful, message wise. He really did tackle very serious ideas in a way children could understand

[@americafuckyeah4520]

It's a ridiculous message that teaches people to live in a fantasy and not be wary of and protect oneself from others. It's a similar take people have against the 2A or legal immigration. They basically said they shouldn't create a deterrent. They're acting as if building bombs while others already were is a bad thing. It's like "okay let's just be open to total annihilation just so we can be the better people".

[@danniuwu8628]

@@americafuckyeah4520 What??? Did you even watch the video dude? The point was that they didn't have ANY proof they were making bombs except for SCRAPS. It was saying that we shouldnt start wars over suspicion, jesus dude.

[@americafuckyeah4520]

@@danniuwu8628 we should be cautious, should we not, anything that can happen will happen, so we should do best to avoid it. It's called being logical. We don't have proof, but if we did nothing, we could all be dead now and for what, to be "the better people"? I bet you're for open borders too huh, "just send them back after they rape and murder someone", huh? "Just build a bomb after they bomb us first", huh? Look up deterrence.

[@danniuwu8628]

@@americafuckyeah4520 "I didnt do anything officer! I thought they might have had a gun even though they showed no signs of aggression and simply walked too close to me so I pulled mine out and aimed it at their head in self defence!" Lol

[@imtheman84]

@@danniuwu8628 Honestly he's right, it's always better to be safe than sorry. The mere possibility of others being able to snuff the life of my family is enough reason for me to try and find any way to prevent that.

[@superg6787]

Moral of the story: Always record the things you like. You'll never know when it's needed again..

[@ohioboy1878]

Rather not

[@prixe12]

@@ohioboy1878 Your loss

[@wigwagstudios2474]

it's fun but it also fucks up my pc.....i've ended up recording way too many of my discord calls that go on for an hour, lest they go even longer than that and gulp up space

[@Hydrangear]

I remember once I watched this video of a tv show in the 50s with a song i really liked. Favorited it and decided to record the video because I couldn't find it anywhere else (i tried looking up the lyrics, shows air date, name of the artist.. never found it) . A month later or so it was deleted from yt and It was only re-uploaded like a year or two after that, but I still wonder if it was officially released on vinyl or smth but no one has it for sale..maybe hidden in someone's attic.. i don't even know the name of the song lol

[@ravnexx8354]

@@Hydrangear Can you send a link or key words to find the video?

[@ayumikamukura1041]

Seeing lost media makes me sad, Some years ago the Brazillian Ancine, National Agency of Cinema was caught on fire...A lot of movies..that are now lost media makes me wonder if someday someone are gonna find them

[@SweetSeline777]

The interesting part, that I'm surprised nobody's talking about, is that Queen's Radio GaGa music video pays homage to the movie Metropolis. I was so shook when I recognized certain scenes from the MV. The movie might've been missing for decades but one of the greatest bands if the 20th century payed its respects to it even during its absence. Why am I the only one who noticed it???

[@ZyxthePest]

The short and honestly, easiest answer about The Passion Of Joan Of Arc is that mental hospitals have always been wildly underfunded and take any donations they can get in terms of entertainment for their patients. I'm sure before the advent of VCRs, they had projectors for films and it was either purchase cheap or donated.

[@StrangerThings-kt8so]

I second this. When I went, all the movies were all old, scratched and previously owned

[@cane-cladraven]

@@StrangerThings-kt8so so why was Passion Of Joan Of Arc pristine?

[@Bazzokapho]

@@cane-cladraven No projector to play it with would my guess. Let's not discount that it could have simply been forgotten about and left in storage.

[@googleoogle]

exactly like who thinks the mentally ill dont enjoy a good movie night? or don't splurge on new copies of good movies? or don't take care of their copies? "a total mystery" i guess

[@c0ldava812]

The reason why it was in a mental hospital is probably because of one of its actors, Antonin Artaud, Artaud was in and out of many mental hospitals and was a pretty interesting figure.

[@phatmartyplays332]

For some reason lost media is very creepy to me that’s why I like to research it at night

[@gecko2993]

I think it's because a lot of the famous lost media is horror or unsettling in nature as they were meant to be lost, rather than just missing

[@blackphoenix77]

It's the creepy music

[@sub-zero5433]

same, idk why old episodes of doctor who being found in odd places is so creepy to me

[@armstrong.r]

@@blackphoenix77 This. People underestimate the degree to which sound influences our perception of video. I bet if this video's background music were some poppy Watch Mojo garbage it would be less creepy and less interesting.

[@justhere4thet482]

I can't remember much, but there was a thing about a song on Seseme Street , it was a Mandela effect type story, about a song and someone thay actually got the the lost footage by an anonymous person. Lol I was intrigued, but that's about all I can remember now. I'm sure it's googleable , I'm to lazy to find it right now. Half asleep typing ...

[@hookedonphoenix3112]

As it’s still obscure, I think it’s worth saying that, despite the cruelty during filming, Wake in Fright is an excellent film. It has a lulling, dreamlike tone mixed with scenes of frantic action and energy in a way I’ve never seen before or after. It’s unbelievable it was almost lost forever and deserves to be better known.

[@AaronAnaya]

Yes, I watched it a couple years ago on a whim and was incredibly struck by it. Jorge is being a bit harsh. The kangaroo scene is definitely tough to watch, but it really shows the brutality of the outback.

[@Tappytw]

I love the way you transition different segments into each other, it’s not in a typical list format and it’s really nice to see. More of these please Jorge big love ❤️

[@monkey5498]

imagine somehow all of youtube and its contents would be deleted... so many moments lost forever and only the memories would remain

[@curlywurly4310]

😶

[@Docklead]

That’s a pretty terrifying thought considering a lot of people claim to make their livelihood out of content.

[@thelivingglitch2288]

Memento Mori

[@Unus_Annus_]

I assume a good amount of content would rise from the ashes

[@clorox3595]

Not that bad considering there’s only a countable content wise stuff here

[@dinnerputter8757]

You should see how the Pink Morning Cartoon search is going. That has to be the strangest search team ever.

[@blameitonjorge]

There are definitely some new updates regarding that search. Here's the latest video by one of the searchers: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIWVlKlsaNyKgZI

[@dinnerputter8757]

@@blameitonjorge Yeah I'm friends with some of the lead searchers, it's been a very long time since we had a new lead (5ish months) so it will probably be a while till it's possibly found.

[@MasterOfTwisted]

yeah i was in the discord when the last one was found

[@ao1778]

@@MasterOfTwisted woah, aren't _you_ cool 😎

[@alg6756]

@@MasterOfTwisted What's the discord invite?

[@ShadyLife101]

I'm the type of guy who isn't creeped out by the stories, but by that God forsaken thumbnail.

[@craycraywolf6726]

Ikr lol. The subject itself isn't so bad but the music always makes me feel on edge.

[@ndroid485]

About the case of the Metropolis version, the employees of the cinema told that the owner of the Original version of Metropolis always told everyone: "Haha, our Metropolis has more scenes than any other version in the world" and no one paid attention to this for YEARS. And, about how this version was in Argentina, is important to say that, a lot of german officers fled to South America at the end of World War II.

[@polkarfield]

you could make a video about why kittens are the cutest thing ever and I’d still get chills

[@williambell3893]

fun yet useless fact: a group of kittens is called a Kindle lol why or how i know that is beyond me

[@rayw.6677]

@@williambell3893 And a group of kittens on fire is called a kindle fire.

[@williambell3893]

@@rayw.6677 🤣 bravo my man!

[@koolaidmanextra2840]

Tru

[@saintessa]

How about the fact they have razors on their feets? Kittens actually can freak me out a bit lol especially when they latch onto your hand and bunny kick you or when they continue to climb up your leg as an adult 😭😂 someone I know trained his kitty to do that and she still likes riding on your back. Luckily she's a smaller cat though

[@KaylaTheKindOne]

I feel a mini surge of serotonin whenever he does the "this piece of media was thought to be lost forever...until now" parts. it's so satisfying

[@burymeinjhenny918]

SAME

[@birdsamora9925]

13:28 you had my curiosity up to this point, now you have my attention.

[@Addictedtocollecting01]

I actually felt really emotional over that Mr Rodgers arck... It really hit home...with things going on right now.

[@hoyitsmiguel]

Immediately brought me back to how Kenny Lauderdale found the weirdest lost media of an anime that only existed on a Vinyl Record

[@potat19]

Which one? I like Kenny’s channel but I didn’t know some lost media was posted damn

[@raptorlikeman3928]

Goddamn I heard Kenny lauderdale and immediately thought of chargeman ken. The horror

[@Ekraelum]

@@potat19 an anime called Lavithunder

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Wait what?

[@darknes4150]

@@MASTEROFEVIL to sum it up the anime isn't actually on vinyl its not a vinyl video but the record is basically all that remains of what appears to have been the opening for an anime that was actually never finshed the opening appears to have been made used for promotion they released the vinyl and thats it i don't know if i can link the video so if you want to know more you should go to kenny lauderdale's channel and look at the video "The Lost Anime Found on a Vinyl Record"

[@thrush_the_dutch]

About the Mormon church thing, I’m a member of the church too, and I can only imagine someone bringing the DW episodes for some youth activity, and it being left there by accident. It happens.

[@yaesu3080]

sounds like when squirrels stash nuts away for winter underground, forget about them, and then they later grow into trees

[@thatpersonmariah3997]

It seems pretty plausible that whoever put them there left them by accident. I can’t even list the amount of stuff I’ve just found lying around church. There is a reason why every church has a lost and found.

[@whitedragoness23]

I think a lot of these missing media’s are just lost items forgotten or misplaced and just got lucky enough to survive.

[@kogalsaiyan99]

I had a similar theory where someone who went to the church also worker for the BBC and brought the episodes over for some viewing and just forgetting to return them

[@roguetoa9787]

Leave the Mormon church

[@personofpinterest4281]

I watched Wake in Fright a few years ago and I thought it was fantastic. Didn’t know it had such a troubled past now I appreciate it even more.

[@javasparkles7330]

"The emotional impact of these scenes may be unusually disturbing and we are therefore recommending that very young children not be permitted to watch" My mom, "Hey kids, come watch this very important and extremely likely speculative film." My sister and I (6 and 7): Okay, mom!

[@thanatoast]

23:00 Ironically, Escape from tomorrow was never targeted by Disney like the director was hoping it would be. It was just forgotten because the film was just straight up bad.

[@markhirsch6301]

I only know about that movie because people made videos going over the flaws of that movie

[@alexcasi1151]

Yup. Disney was probably aware of the fact that going after the movie would give the film much more mainstream attention (according to the law of the Streisand effect), so they decided to forget about it and let it fade into obscurity.

[@weedkillerinc.548]

It's crazy to think that such popular and influential things, like Metropolis, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and episodes of Doctor Who, were just lost. Destroyed. Thrown away and forgotten about as if they were nothing. I'm glad that some of them were recovered, but still.

[@conorsarsfield7158]

You’d be surprised how many popular things were destroyed, the BBC is a particularly guilty culprit, they are currently missing. Half a season of Dads Army, over 500 episodes of Top of the Pops (including the Beatles only appearance), The episode of Jukebox Jury hosted by the Beatles (although a particularly poor audio recording exists) over 100 episodes of Dr Who

[@sammyismuff]

That Mr Roger's quote is so cute. He always had eloquent and simple ways of saying things.

[@nixienooo]

6:15 this was the video that inspired me to look at the movie. This is what I wrote my critical film analysis essay for my English course for. Thank you, Jorge

[@Chactemal]

I don't know if it doesn't appear in english news but the reason a copy of "Metropolis" was in Argentina is due to distributor Adolfo Wilson who saved one copy and then gave it to a film critic who later sold it alongside his private collection in the 60s to the Cinema Museum of Buenos Aires where it stayed in a box for decades.

[@jasrob009]

That Mr Rogers episode with the paranoid king ended up being life imitating art. Girl:"we don't even know the people in South Woods." King:"we know they could be making bombs." Skip to the early 2000s and Bush was saying the same thing. "We know Iraq could have weapons of mass destruction." If we were able to see that episode we could have learned from Mr Rogers. Lol

[@sinistararies2975]

I thought Bush too before Trump.. but I guess things that happen around time he was in office are because he existed. Eh. Bush was downright crazy when it came to overseas war, iirc.

[@bernebelmont1857]

well the art was already imitating life, but life imitates life too fuckin sucks

[@GreebleClown]

@@sinistararies2975 So was everyone at that time, America was in a situation we’d never been in before. It’s not an excuse for going overboard, but it is an explanation of why most were all so scared and ready to fight at the drop of a hat.

[@sinistararies2975]

@@GreebleClown Yeah, I can understand. It's one of those moments where you never expected in your lifetime something big would happen on such a scale. Some hoped it would so they could be a part of history. Others I'd say were smart enough to say we hope there wasn't a next time but knew it was inevitable.

[@WildSableye]

@@sinistararies2975 Well we're still warring in the middle east, so I don't think it was a temporary case of overreaction. We can say Bush just wanted to curb the American public's fears following 9/11, but it undeniably left the US in a favorable position to control, you guessed it, oil prices.

[@ScaryStoriesAt2AM]

Been obsessed with these lost media videos lately, thank you for the hours of content Jorge. Hope everyone's having a wonderful night, you're a huge inspiration to me and my little horror channel the past few months. Much love.

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

I’m really glad that Metropolis was found. It’s a nice watch.

[@baron_von_brunk]

Hey Jorge, have you seen All Things Lost's somewhat recent video about missing TV commercial advertisements? They gave a shout out to my search for the lost Subway sandwiches commercial from the '90s - it's an unsolved media mystery that could use some more exposure! Lost Media Wiki is currently helping to search for it, too.

[@squidfrackr]

Naturally you would know alot about that

[@klizzard1691]

This comment needs more awareness

[@woaddragon]

Upvote

[@fyodor8288]

bump

[@malif1279]

Boomp

[@braidena1633]

Had a DVD of the cut metropolis. Can confirm: movie was impossible to follow. Now I know why

[@laurenredmond1881]

But the full extended version is definitely worth it, it's one of my favorite films- I got it on DVD as soon as the whole extended version was available and I love it!

[@braidena1633]

@@laurenredmond1881 Maybe if I come across it in the future. I found it hard to watch just by nature of its.. primitiveness. Piano music and cue-cards for the dialogue. Originally I'd watched it because I was really into its 2001 remake(you could call it? idk) at the time kzbin.info/www/bejne/opuco6iCbadmZ5I

[@laurenredmond1881]

@@braidena1633 Never seen the remake actually, but I found the original weirdly hypnotic and kinda beautiful in it's really old 'janky' ways!

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

I always thought that being impossible to follow was part of its deal.

[@mzmoon100]

Thank you for clear and accurate captions, always refreshing and immediate respect

[@twilighttoast01]

It's seriously insane just how well edited these videos are

[@Snorlax-]

People in 1927: “2 and half hours is too long! We gotta shorten it!” Endgame/the Snyder cut: *laughs in 3-4 hours long*

[@osodeanteojosyt]

4 hours

[@Snorlax-]

@@osodeanteojosyt oh sorry. I haven’t seen it I don’t have HBO max. Thank you

[@shinyagumon7015]

That's why we are superior to them.

[@Mageman17]

I'm hearing blurbs that it's chopped up into 4 parts (no scenes are cut, thank God)? Likely to give viewers a toilet break?

[@blakebellamy41]

Also 12 years later the 4 hour movie gone with the wind came out

[@that-british-whovian]

To comment on the Doctor who section, The tapes that ended up in Nigeria were often bought from other stations that had already screened the episodes, these weren’t to screen them themselves but because the station wished to reuse the tape, as such the 9 recent episodes which were found along with the still absent “web of fear” Episode 3 managed to slip through the wiping process and were discovered all together before one of the episodes was stolen and sold on. Other episodes were often returned because the BBC engineers were often stealing them and returned them at later dates when all was forgiven, wasn’t just Doctor who that had this fate “Dads Army” had two episodes returned this way, whilst it’s missing “four hundred dawns” the first episode of “Galaxy 4” has an interesting story behind it, the episode exited up until 1977 when a 6 minute section was excised for “whose doctor who” a lively arts program about the series and whilst the eventual uses footage ran for less than half a minute, the other parts of the excerpt were given to two fans who then held onto them, in fact for the longest time the BBC didn’t want just clips they only wanted full episodes, and as such wouldn’t have taken them, so that particular print if one does exist if they found the master copy would only be around 18 minutes

[@Steven_Andreyechen]

Tapes were not sent to other countries, only film recordings (on 35mm or 16mm film) of the episodes which cannot be reused. The episode found in Nigeria were shown in Nigeria and forgotten due to the complexity of the tv stations (they were not unified but a bunch of individual ones)

[@ohthehorror31]

Uhh as a grown woman in March of 2022,the Mr. Roger's piece makes my stomach sink.. It is terrifying.

[@silverflight01]

I'm glad that we can enjoy the entirety of Metropolis instead of the very cut version, minus two scenes. Thank you, collector in Argentina.

[@lone-welf]

the fact they took roger’s episode off is beyond telling how much the elites do not want goodness spread.

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

Mr. Rodgers was right, of course, but at that time, people were seriously predicting that nuclear weapons would destroy the world and everything they love. People sought to overcome that fear by pretending nothing was wrong, and parents felt the same way.

[@CoercedJab]

@@SomeFreakingCactus people??? You mean the establishment of BOTH countries, who were hyping up team Edward vs team Jacob propaganda??? The people of both countries were more alike than their politicians would have them believe

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

​@@CoercedJab Of course. I fail to see how that conflicts with my statement, however.

[@laniebugg]

Yes exactly! It's sad it's taken this long for people to realize. :(

[@roundhouse2616]

who are 'the elites', exactly?

[@refundreplay]

Wait... Have you ever visited an asylum? They DO have movies and entertainment, so finding a movie in storage doesn't seem that unfathomable.

[@1313puredragon]

I don't think it's the fact the asylum had movies in storage, but that they had THAT movie in particular. Seems like an odd choice for a nervous hospital imho

[@ChicaChickenXD]

it’s not the fact that they had movies it’s the fact they had that exact movie :|

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

True. (Source: have been committed to multiple insane asylums)

[@refundreplay]

@@ChicaChickenXD I understand the sentiment, I guess I am filtering it through my own experience. I've visited a couple hospitals in my day, as a visitor, and they all had at least 1 VERY obscure video game or movie.

[@SunnysFilms]

It's not that they had a movie. It's that they had THAT movie - a movie of which no copies were known to have survived. And that the movie was in such an excellent state of preservation, which suggests that it wasn't played much if at all.

[@RioRock7]

This is from my dad who used to work at a PBS broadcasting station: That Mr. Rodgers arc was 100% in the basement where he worked. They had every episode ever (and a ton of other stuff put on PBS) on a bunch of 1 inch video tapes. This was done at every broadcasting station. Someone who worked there probably heard about the search, recorded the episodes, and uploaded them.

[@Newt2799]

It would’ve been kind of badass if after all those years the editor for Wake In Fright finally found those negatives that were about to be destroyed, and then thought the world would be better off without them and just walked away letting them be destroyed

[@hoodclassicsofcalifornia]

My guess for the Metropolis film ending up in Argentina is because of High rank German officials that fled Germany to Argentina when WW2 ended

[@Chactemal]

It was found in a private collection of 1920s movies by the Film Museum of Buenos Aires, including parts of argentinean and other foreign movies.

[@hoodclassicsofcalifornia]

Nvm this theory falls apart bc it wouldve been destroyed as metropolis was seen as communist when it was first aired

[@Chactemal]

@@hoodclassicsofcalifornia the reason a copy of Metropolis was in Argentina is due to distributor Adolfo Z. Wilson who saved one copy and then gave it to a film critic who later sold it to the Cinema Museum of Buenos Aires where it stayed in a box for decades.

[@crotchwolf1929]

Not very likely. The Nazis were very much anti Modern and Germany's own home grown German Expressionist Movement was a victim of this as well. Anything that would have been considered "Degenerate works" would have been destroyed. This would include any works that were anti religion, works that were done by Jewish artists, directors etc, works that went against the Party's ideologies and other reasons the Nazis saw fit to include.

[@osakatales9228]

@@Chactemal Adolfo? Damn, I guess he didn't have a creative name to think up when he got to Argentina.

[@lilycaraway2751]

Blameitonjorge is the reason I sometimes go to bed at 4 AM with all the lights still on.

[@feetlunatic5134]

haha loser I’m so scared to watch his videos I put them on watch later so I can watch them in the morning

[@Anonymous-je2fp]

I ain’t afraid of no ghost

[@biigg22]

I don’t understand why get scared by this. It’s not even scary

[@cheerio4000]

@Ultimate 👍

[@bibsthefantastic]

look at all these "im so cool im not scared" people

[@zkynaston]

the Passion of Joan of Arc is one of the best movies ever made, I'm so glad it was found!

[@HealyHarzard]

Been watching you channel for so long I'm shy yet the things behind what you talk about are so true 👍

[@sopherz]

I don’t really get why it’s made out to seem so mysterious that some films were found in storage rooms of these buildings... like for the church and mental hospital, they were very likely just part of a collection of films for people there to watch. It’s not anything crazy or weird.

[@nozoto]

The reels were donated, either by people who wanted to get rid of clutter or simply by charity. Makes sense. I'd say the bigger mystery is how the donator came in possession of an unique thing. We can assume the Dr Who episodes were gifted to the church by a BBC engineer, who had a certain degree of affiliation with the mormons, for example.

[@jakewhite5767]

Exactly what I was thinking lmao, the mental hospital one was probably just because they played the film for patients on movie nights or smn, but because it's in a mental hospital oooooo aaaaa scary 😳 maybe it was owned by a crazy serial killer man ooooo

[@agenttex5973]

@@jakewhite5767 I mean I guess to a lot of people its just odd that a company would give up the only copies of a certain show to a random mental hospital or church, It just seems like an odd decision

[@q345ify]

​@@jakewhite5767 especially since a lot of mental hospitals in the 20's and 30's (which is presumably when it was donated) were religiously affiliated a movie about a famous saint known for having religious visions would be perfect for the patients of "St So and so's Hospital for the Mentally Infirm" to watch and get perspective on their own conditions

[@Moonhermit-]

@@agenttex5973 It's really simple. Noone was watching them, and people who had them got rid of them. In the case of Doctor Who, it was just a cheesy, low budget early science fiction series that noone at the time thought was worth anything in the future. As for the Passion, it was a groundbreaking movie at the time but not as much later on. Movies with sound quickly started showing up, and silent movies pretty much got cleared out of collections when noone wanted to watch them anymore. So it was given to a mental hospital for movie nights, and got forgotten there by the time people were actually interested again.

[@pikool]

Hearing how the Dr. Who Episodes, the Kangaroo movie and the Mickey cartoon where barely saved makes me feel depressed when i think about the countless material that didn't run with the same luck

[@micha5200]

Tbh, nothing of value would be lost in case of the Kangaroo movie.

[@senbonzakura8212]

@@micha5200 Yeah, it's basically mandatory viewing for year 12 students over here in australia. It's not very good at all. Other than the novelty of it being lost media in the past, I can't see any reason why a person would watch it.

[@chillinthefeelin943]

Same with what I felt for my country's (Philippines) pioneering films and cinema archives. Most old films from pre-war and a bit of post-war were never to be found due to films rotting and the department for archiving films got damaged after fires and probably storms. What's really existential, for me, is that some actors and actresses who played on those lost films were award-winning and legendary, along with directors and writers during their time. But sadly, those films will forever be gone, but not in the memories of those who once had seen it, like my father, who is 75 years old now. The legacies of those films will be remembered in books about some of them. And every year, old reels and films die, along with the people involved both inside and outside of those old and lost historical films. Good day!

[@nowavecharles]

@@chillinthefeelin943 Truly a poetic and articulate way of putting it. You never know what media will eventually be lost. Though in the case of film, I’d see we’ve come a long way and now have many methods of at least keeping a full movie intact, uploading things to the internet, physical media like DVDs, VHS, Blu Ray, etc. Also loseless media formats and the ability to make multiple copies of something without losing quality is a big one.

[@chillinthefeelin943]

@@nowavecharles Yes, technology saved many dying pioneering films. They are indeed a blessing for the future generations to hopefully see and enjoy like the last generations did; that is the way they were meant to be experienced. But one can only imagine the lost media that once existed. They were cherished by the silent generation and the people behind those films. It was a once in a lifetime show -- made to and for them that we will never get to see or truly know. It's kinda weirdly existential ngl. I like that.

[@ecafssot]

_RE: Doctor Who in the Church Basement_ The chapel in question is the Wandsworth Branch of the LDS, which happens to the church my Mother attended when our family lived in Putney (until 1993), so I ran the details passed her to see what she said. My Mum said that she was baptised it that church in 1970 and whilst extensions were built, she can’t think of any building work that would make sense for the 1978 mention. Also the *building has no basement.*

[@tiredcerulean]

i ADORE metropolis, it’s such an amazing film

[@spaceyote7174]

It's really tragic how so many series have been lost forever because the BBC simply couldn't afford to buy more tapes...

[@syvvieon]

The HQ footage of the literal *moon landing* suffered the same fate with NASA, I believe

[@craycraywolf6726]

@@syvvieon Or it was faked! *DRAMATIC MUSIC* It's crazy how stuff like this fades away. Like a literal historical event gets lost.

[@PsionicMonk]

If Dr. Who debuted Weeping Angels in 2007, then the idea would have been popular for years before that, the Boos from Mario do the same thing except they're ghosts 👻

[@staringcorgi6475]

But the statues are creeper to many

[@keepmymindpreoccupied2892]

Yeah super mario originated the idea, i dnt take any 4chan or forum posts seriously its a bunch of fake made up posts.

[@epmcgee]

They don't do the same thing. Boos are shy, and they hide their faces. This is different from the malevolent Weeping Angels that are unable to move if someone is looking at them. There's a bunch of other differences, such as an image of a Weeping Angel is just as dangerous as the Weeping Angel itself. The fact that almost any angelic statue on Earth could potentially be a Weeping Angel. Etc.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

@@epmcgee those ideas weren't introduced to the mythology until after S05E04 (spring 2010).

[@galesdove]

if 173 was based on the angels (which idk if it was) it seems like someone wanted to do the angels but edgy (given that the angels just send you back in time while 173 snaps yours neck), and actually executed that idea well.

[@AKA_Lauren]

Imagine going to college one day and finding a piece of lost media just in a trash can, like wtf 😂

[@ZeranZeran]

5:50 as Russia invades Ukraine, this is kind of horrifying. Ive thought for a while now that media was prepping us for disaster. So many movies about the world ending in the last 10 years than ever before, It's getting weird.

[@LordMegatherium]

The best anecdote about Wake In Fright is sorely missing, so here it is: During an early Australian screening, one man stood up, pointed at the screen and protested "That's not us!", to which Jack Thompson yelled back "Sit down, mate. It is us."

[@CBMFYT]

"... depicting the Australian outback locals being brash, drunk hedonist." Me, an Australian: Weeellllll.....

[@hamishwhitehenderson5197]

yeah, very surprised it was described as a "film no one wanted" and that good reviews where mainly for it's restoration: it's just objectively a good film, if an often an incredibly dark and unpleasant one to watch- that anecdote is pretty much a great summing up- people disliked it because it I showed a truth about them they didn't want to admit.

[@nohandlefound.]

Source trust me bro

[@LordMegatherium]

@@nohandlefound. Im rather certain that anecdote comes straight from Jack Thompson's mouth. Take it up with him.

[@DomesticTruther]

Nice to know there was a warning to watching that show. No wonder every kid in my 6th grade class was talking about it the next day. Parents didn't understand what television was back then. Like they don't understand the internet these days

[@DomesticTruther]

I'm talking about being ignorant about WHO really runs these entities and our country for that matter...

[@agithatilda8969]

I sure hope they do an episode on The Queen of Creepy Dolls

[@TediousMilkshake]

What show?

[@palmer8278]

Jeez Louise how old are you?

[@---rv8fi]

This was a reccomended to me and I was fairly entertained through out the video until I was stunted when you brought up Wake in Fright because I realised there could of been a universe, where my Australian film fanatic father was one of the only people to have seen the masterpiece that it is.. The research and presentation is * chef kiss *