The 2023 FOUND Lost Media Tier List

[@rpvisual6192]

Seeing Bluey at the top of the tier list and next to major historic American events is WILD

[@AL-lh2ht]

Yea fandom stuff mixing with real history is always a bit cringe.

[@goodkid457]

@@AL-lh2ht you're the cringe

[@mattwolf7698]

Honestly I don't think it deserves to be that high, Bluey is a good show but the pilot isn't really important or really even interesting to non-fans of the show. The historic stuff is actually important.

[@purebones]

@@AL-lh2htoh go cry

[@langustajableczna]

American events like uhhh Warsaw's ghetto uprising

[@john_toss]

SpongeBob behind closed doors was probably one of the wildest finds of this year

[@darkspyofficial]

Yes indeed lost SpongeBob rule 34

[@Da.Liar-Pig]

Yeah thats the 💀 moment

[@thedrewster0408]

@@darkspyofficialnot just R34, it’s NSFW artwork made by the artists that worked on the show.

[@deadeye_john]

And one of the most disgusting

[@Microsave2]

Ah heil knaw spung buck god the đayum pawn on hìz aszz

[@KnapfordMaster98]

Jonathan Ross, a celebrity, comes forward with a physical arcade cabinet and offers it up for digital preservation? Massive points to the dude.

[@amimirmimir512]

absolute chad

[@feIon]

hes the goat for that

[@ChaunceyGardener]

For fans of Mexican comedian Chespirito, Brazilians miraculously recovered two lost episodes of both 'Chapolin Colorado' and 'Chavo del Ocho' series from its classic 1970s run. 'Miguelito', a Brazilian clone of 'Chavo del Ocho' also had 6 episodes recovered from 22 produced that were never seen again since their first exhibition in the year 2000.

[@Fractorification]

Where can I see these found episodes? I’m a big fan of Chespirito and would love to see these!

[@ChaunceyGardener]

Televisa keeps taking those down so here are the names: "Chaves As trapaças da Chiquinha 1978" and "Chapolin O Bandido do Hospital 1974"@@Fractorification

[@K.I.R.B.]

The Shrek footage was pretty big I’d say! That was my favorite considering how long people have been looking for it, plus it has an iconic meaning behind it.

[@jackdearmitt1328]

Funny thing about SpongeBob behind closed doors thing is I met a King of The Hill animator who said they did that with their characters and many animators did. He even said that the put the pictures all around the studio and some kids came on a field trip and the show’s creator Mike Judge was angrily ripping down the pictures before the kids came.

[@carsonkenton6041]

Does this mean that there is potentially lost media King of the Hill we haven't found yet as well?

[@ringkunmori]

December 2023 will be remembered as the greatest time for the lostwave community

[@MarkTheAxolotlBoi]

Fr

[@Karmy.]

There's so much that was found that wasn't mentioned or as well known too

[@blackhatch46]

Lost wave? What the actual hell is that? You can't just invent hyper sub genres of every slight interest.

[@MarkTheAxolotlBoi]

@@blackhatch46 Lostwave is just mysterious music.

[@78s_TheArtists_AndTheHistory]

Kenya Dance, Swahilli Dance, HLWIT, Fond My Mind, But The Blues, SO MANY SONGS WERE FOUND! Edit: January 9 2024, DANCE FOR HOURS A DAY WAS FOUND ITS FUNKY BY ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT

[@WireHeadProductions]

19:57 Hi! TemporaryStope here, thank you for mentioning and ranking DoTR so high! I’m so thankful that the lost media community helped me find the film 🎉 I love this vid

[@Duncaster]

One piece of formerly lost media I haven’t seen brought up is 1972’s Voodoo Heartbeat. Mostly because not only was it found. But it was released and restored alongside 9 other previously lost films!

[@NitwitsWorld]

Interesting 😅

[@mariofanalex4455]

What were the other 8?

[@NitwitsWorld]

@@mariofanalex4455 That's what I wanna know as well

[@WaxWingedAvian]

Hey it’s me, the guy that originally posted the discovery, if anyone wants to know more I highly suggest looking at the Lost Picture Show set from Vinegar Syndrome, which lists the other 9 films which you can purchase right now.

[@Duncaster]

@@mariofanalex4455 Red Midnight (1966) The Las Vegas Strangler (1968) Beware the Black Widow (1968) Deep Inside (1968) Barbara (1970) Last of the American Hoboes (1971) Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle (1974) Violated! (1975) What’s Love (1987)

[@denizbluemusic]

27:28 just a correction: some of the material (the overdubs made in the 90s) would be considered lost, in a sense that it was not available to the general public.

[@lostwavefinder587]

Fond My Mind (lostwave), the Shrek test animation, and Spongebob: Behind Closed Doors were probably the biggest finds of the year for me. Thanks for sharing

[@ReggyGDI]

Did you know in 2017 a lost film of John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland was found. It is now online and fully restored. It was filmed by Peggy Walsh when the US president’s visited her home town of New Ross in June 1963. It has no sound but it's still grate and was to into a museum this year so people can see it on the big screen.

[@MapleMilk]

I'm only EXACTLY 15 minutes and 1 second in but it really makes me happy to see all of this lost media we've collectively been following for such a long time become preserved Given the nature of art, you never know what kind of influence making of this stuff available again will have on future creators So thanks to all of the archivists putting in the good fight to find everything from a clip of a random kids show, to a silent film reel, to incredibly historically important photos. All of it is valuable, however cringe some of it may be lol Happy New Year

[@colefitzpatrick8431]

For me - the TOP story, without question, is Steely Dan's The Second Arrangement. Steely Dan fans and major dudes everywhere have wanted to hear this for 43 years. This was supposed to be a hyped-up lead single on one of the most prolific bands of the 70's final album. Alleged to be their best work ever. And the distilled essence of what the Grammy award winning band was about, from head to toe. Instead, the best song of the batch got erased, one of the music duo's girlfriends overdosed on heroin and died, with her family suing, and that same musician got hit by a taxi and needed to spend six months in the hospital. A separate lawsuit hit the band while fighting with their label, and the infamously meticulous Donald Fagen would like up session musicians often to do over 250 takes of a single song, over, and over, and over, until he got EXACTLY what he wanted. What you hear immediately on the record, the first song, Babylon Sisters, is after take 274 to my knowledge. The album took three years to make as opposed to their usual one album per year turnout, was one of the most expensive records ever produced and sold at the time, spun off the invention of the drum machine after the world's best drummers weren't meticulous enough for Fagen, and the band would split up for 20 entire years. Only seven songs made the record, Second Arrangement not one of them, and when several of the "Gaucho Outtakes" were leaked the quality of some of those songs debatedly were even better than what made the album. This would make for an incredible video! I would love to see it expanded into a full topic.

[@helendelisle8914]

I’d love to see you cover all of the finds done by the lostwave community in December in one video, hearing about the three biggest ones practically back to back blew my mind

[@MyPalJimbo]

What's been found?

[@helendelisle8914]

@@MyPalJimbo Among other songs: HLWIT, Kenya Dance, Swahili Dance, and Fond my Mind

[@TheDigitalApple]

Shrek I Feel Good and Blues Prints is immediate S tier!

[@alexiskuwata]

So true

[@machineryman7197]

Interesting Steely Dan story. My favorite band of all time Boston, has an absolute TON of lost media surrounding them. According to the wife of the late lead singer, the band was recorded in both audio and video many times during their first two tours, but hardly any footage of them ever surfaced. If you ever did a video on lost media for music, I'd love it if you mentioned these guys.

[@machineryman7197]

FOLLOW UP: The only full length video to surface was their concert at Giants Stadium in 1979, the audio is bad but the video is okay. Another full length video exists but only 15 minutes of it was uploaded, the audio is much better : kzbin.info/www/bejne/l17ccmmNnrGmbLc&ab_channel=JustMyClassics

[@Wnick1996]

What a year this was for lost media. Glad we have an epic tier list to end it off on. Happy New Year, Mike

[@amessoffandoms7897]

funny how arguably the coolest find this year (que sera sera) couldn’t be covered because it was found literally the day this came out.

[@Laylatg]

What is that?

[@obeseperson]

@@Laylatg lost commercial that ended up just being an advertisement for the crime show Snapped

[@Mr.H0LLYW00D]

What is it??

[@TheRavenLord1]

Lost media videos are fun to watch honestly, so much lost media to try and find. Also, i can always hear that opening “Oh hey there.” Even after the video ends.

[@jackmanoffical]

Out of Jimmy's Head is a pretty minor entry but it is at least interesting to see an early role from Tinashe (who later became a great r&b singer with a strong cult following) preserved when she was a teenage actress. Had no idea she was in it until I noticed her name in the credits from the footage you posted of it for this video.

[@smittzero8463]

Bit of a correction for Be Safe With The Tweenies. The shorts were based on The Tweenies, which was its own show and aired on the Cbeebies channel. The wording in the LMW article is a little confusing. There were some massive finds this year.

[@Joe90h]

Yeah, CBeebies was the 'pre-school' versions of CBBC, or Children's BBC. Now if only all the footage of the grandpa character doing Jimmy Saville impressions were legitimately lost...

[@smittzero8463]

@@Joe90h I'd say those impressions were more appropriate at the time but the BBC knew what was going on...

[@ledude420]

Calling it now, "Everyone Knows That" will be found in 2024!!!!

[@brainz2]

nah, ~2030s

[@lostwavefinder587]

EKT search has been ruined so it will never be found

[@ledude420]

@@lostwavefinder587My mom's sisters' brother heard it on the radio back in 1985, but lost the recording haha

[@MarkTheAxolotlBoi]

@@brainz2nah, 2067

[@purplsquid0877]

Well well well

[@CarysCreatesThings]

The show the safety videos were taken from was called The Tweenies. CBeebies is the name of the BBC programming block and channel that produced and aired The Tweenies.

[@DonJuanDecepticon]

At some point KZbin will either have something happen to it or it will die off,”everything eventually goes away.” and there will be so many pieces of lost media it will never all be recovered

[@deadeye_john]

Like thats ever gonna happen.

[@feIon]

i'm bummed that you missed roly polys world tour. it was the final lost video game created by osamu sato (the guy who made LSD dream emulator). people were searching high and low for the game for over 10 years and a copy was finally listed for sale and preserved this year. not even the creator himself owned a copy of it previously. there's currently an effort to get the game fully translated into english within the sato community :)

[@thedrewster0408]

The fact that there was a Microsoft Windows XP musical is really baffling to me. I feel like that cat saying “huh, huh, huhhhhhhhhhh” when I heard that information.

[@CellSays]

Huh huh huh huh huhhhhhhh huh huh huh huhhhh, huhhuh. Story of Windows XP

[@1978garfield]

Industrial musicals used to be huge. It is rare to have film of one but there are several "orginal cast recordings" if them on KZbin.

[@RonMotta1972]

“To tell the projectionist to move to the next slide, there’s this annoying beeping sound.” Oh, the young generation will never know the thrill of film strips! And EVERYBODY in class wanted to be the projectionist! 😂😂😂

[@myislander]

As soon as I heard that comment, I was immediately transported back to 1980s elementary school.BEEP! I remember we had a fancy machine that automatically advanced the strip, but we still got the beeps

[@johnmcafee6140]

Yes! And there was nothing more annoying than the kid who wouldn't pay attention and would forget to switch to the next picture.

[@ExtremeWreck]

Sad you didn't cover The Special Christmas Gift, which was a charming animated special from 2000 made by 6 passionate people who had a love for making animation.

[@MyPalJimbo]

I saw a video about that, that one looked like it was actually pretty good. Sad that it ended up so obscure.

[@uamdbro]

Holy shit, to say that German Spongebob commercial (not the PSP one, the other one) has aged poorly would be the understatement of the year

[@Nerdtendo6366]

So the Glucose GBA reader was kinda already available via the DS, which used the same mold. Just thought I would mention

[@michaelchoman1625]

I remember filmstrips! I used to watch them in elementary school back in the 1960s and 1970s. Ah, those were the days...

[@grigioguy9717]

Thank you for the mention, Mike!

[@mg8553]

I actually remember watching Family Game Night as a kid. I didn’t even know the episodes were lost!

[@ssk4661]

The Sky Games Star was something I am really nostalgic about. They used to charge your internet provider and I used to run it through the roof when I was a child, which got me into a lot of trouble. I moved to the USA in 2020 and obviously cable isn't as big as it was in 2005-2010 when I was using the Sky Games, but this rabbit hole is huge. There were a LOT of games, including some that I legitimately cannot find anything about online, including one Scooby-Doo one where you control Scooby, and a Kangaroo one that would only come up when you were watching animal planet or another nature related network. Hopefully they find them.

[@thelegominealt5842]

As someone who has been playing Cookie Run for roughly 2 years at this point I'm suprised that was the reason why Lep's World Run was taken down. I always thought it was because of Super Mario Run. I played Lep's World Run btw Now I'm wondering about that Talking Tom version...

[@PetrusButu-sh1uc]

Nice list! I was hoping you would bring up the lost Golgo 13 series from 1971, as that was just found and re-aired this month. Also, an episode of the Saint Seiya DiC dub was found as well. I understand that you can't cover absolutely everything, though. Happy new year, and may 2024 prove even more fruitful!

[@thegothcatgirl]

Inb4 London After Midnight is uploaded to Vimeo at 11:59:59 PM

[@TheBayerRepublic]

where link

[@deadeye_john]

Fake

[@davidtoback714]

Oh yeah, where is the proof?

[@thegothcatgirl]

(My comment was a joke)

[@davidtoback714]

Well hopefully this year, your joke becomes reality!

[@LittleShopArchive]

YOOOO THIS IS SO COOL! Thanks for the shout out about the Little Shop cartoon! But a quick clarification: I was able to get two recordings of "It's a Wonderful Leaf," but neither had the song "Yogurt" fully intact. I was able to fill out the audio where I could using both recordings and fill in the animation using the available German dub, but about 20-30 seconds of the English dub is still lost.

[@starthefrakkfangirl6094]

Funny thing is that Spartakus and the Sun Beneath The Sea was a very popular show here in Central Europe and majority of the episodes are available in our dub if I'm correct. But again that's perhaps due to it's popularity and reruns here was on a popular kids channel quite often. While presumably the show wasn't nearly as popular in English speaking countries. (Sorry for my bad phrasing)

[@StuD44]

Completely forgot about the Crash and Spyro one. Excellent video man!

[@_downyblue]

i’m a steely dan nerd, obsessed with them for years. i was so surprised to hear TSA was mentioned!! cimcie is our saviour. i think you should look into walk it before you talk it, an important movie from the dan’s history that has been lost forever. it was only shown in a theater ONCE and was supposedly god awful. id love to see it, lol

[@_downyblue]

ps, just a little bit of details: the song WAS available before the discovery, just really poor quality bootlegs. this is the highest quality, crispest we will ever find. rodger nichols had a huge stash of everything from his time in the studio, and when he passed, his daughter, our lord and savior cimcie, started to unearth and archive some of the things there. she came across a tape one day, the TSA tape. it included an instrumental version too!! recently a lot of new videos and photos from the dan’s history have surfaced too thanks to her. she’s the best thing that’s happened to the dan community in years.

[@amyberberich78]

The age of some of these finds is absolutely amazing!

[@JustEpic_Yt]

I heard bubble guppies just ended for the second time lol

[@HappyAccidentVideos]

Can I be honest? All found lost media is S tier. Ranking them kinda diminishes the concept of searching for lost media. It leads to less enthusiasm in searching if the lost media is gonna be looked down on, anyway. Kinda deflates the whole concept, IMO

[@MontySlython]

eh, to me the more concerning thing is rating it based on whether its offensive or not, doing that diminishes the historical significance of the find like with betty boop

[@afernandezaf55af]

Wait, the endings of Shanghaied were considered lost? Years ago I watched the endings on one of those free movie/TV show sites. They were in perfect quality too. I had no idea they were considered lost. For me they've been found for years. I haven't checked up on them in a while but they've been around for a long time.

[@tayloreh]

Speaking of maybe lost media - I remember very early on in the days of youtube, when there wasn't much of an algorithm - maybe 2007/08, stumbling upon what looked like a video from an Asian cult in a big temple, where followers of this woman got to ask her questions, I think questions about the eternity waiting for them once a spaceship came down, or some typical cult nonsense like that. There were subtitles or a translator there, and her answers were often very evasive, things like 'I'm too tired to answer that right now'. Very very odd. I'm not sure if its lost, esp since I found it on KZbin, but does anyone know the name of it? Would be so interesting to find again.

[@cakehoarder]

Pickles mentioned 🤯

[@alangarcia-kp7qy]

Apparently the SpongeBob and Patrick kiss image is stolen fan art, I think that's what lsupersonicq stated.

[@Scribble2345]

Lol, imagine making funny fan art, going to sleep, and the next day you see your dumb fan art on tv.

[@ouroborosproductions]

Dream on The Run is definitely worthy of a video would love to know more about it

[@berkkarsi]

Any lost media that is found in high quality and high resolution is an instant S tier for me.

[@fireflakesss]

Your ranking of the WW2 stuff in S tier was an absolute W move:)

[@genericfriend2568]

Honestly, yeah. Bluey's pretty respectable for a kids' show.

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

This is very niche but I still care about it a lot: some Ninjago shorts from 2017 that were previously only online in Chinese were published online by Ninjago's creator. So we finally have those shorts in English for anyone to see!

[@sluktra]

Lmao, the only reason i ever click on this channel is to see if he puts ur lego ninjago original proof of concept 2010 vid on here. Btw was it lost media or just low quality?

[@scottster0215]

I swear I had Tweenies merch when I was a kid. Didn’t know some of it was lost!

[@TheDiamondCore]

Wanna know what’s missing? The ninjago manga. A lot of effort similar to finding the ECDP McDonalds game went into finding/recovering it, and it should get more of a spotlight in these 2023 recaps.

[@nm-hi5dp]

Evangelion in D tier is wild

[@rollbot88]

Gotta love when he talk about The Thick of It U.S. he mentions all the actors name and then theres “the woman who voices Lois Griffin”.

[@ramunayy]

can't believe i only just discovered that turn-on became found media. i remember watching a youtube video about cancelled shows like that and wanted episodes to be available

[@SlashManEXE]

When the 1930s cartoon has problematic content 😳

[@Dovieandi]

Woah, just found your channel and saw Lep's World Run mentioned. I was the animator and creature designer for a Lep's World game, years ago now. Had no idea there even was a Leps World run game 😅

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I really really hope to see The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, and The Adventures of Zorro found in English. The first has like 4 episodes readily available online, and the other only has dubs fully found.

[@ChrisPhillipsMusic510]

No idea what kind of crossover viewers this would have as a video but, while talking about the European title match between Bradshaw and Christian, you mentioned more wrestling things being found. I'd definitely enjoy a video talking about those

[@penepleto1210]

"River Cuomo's Funko Pop" I love it when the people that make the most significant discoveries also choose to use the wildest usernames possible lmao

[@kalebaelfire647]

they found how long will it take. that's my highlight of 2023 ngl

[@lostwavefinder587]

It was mentioned at 2:55 with Kenya Dance and FMM

[@DanSolow]

HLWIT will forever be my favourite find of 2023. What a year!

[@JackebBee-iz7qi]

love how the artist who made it still respond to fans

[@trey9382]

Amazing video! Definitely an s tier. Some amazing finds this year. Gives me hope that one day the missing episode of pixar cars toon will be found. I've tried to find it but no luck.

[@DHMISDuckGuy]

Woah I had no idea the shanghaied endings were missing… I have them on dvd

[@TracksWithDax]

that was a SERIOUSLY good year for lost media finds!!

[@patrickjarrell5442]

Out of Jimmy's head has drove me mad for years!

[@r7crazycanucks]

Um Jammer Lammy NOW! is still one of my favorite lost media finds of 2023. And props to me for getting this game known to many on Reddit after Jonathan Ross himself sent me a video of the working arcade cabinet.

[@ShinySephiroth1]

When was the 50s Miracle on 54th street lost? I swear I saw it on either network or cable TV a few times as a kid in the 90s.

[@darkestccino5405]

It is so nice to hear that the Johny Bravo DBZ episode got found.

[@invadergrim6198]

Smashfest!!!! The turtles immediately starts playing in my head when I see a mascot of Mario or Pikachu. Ohhhh that takes me back

[@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl]

Happy new year and hopefully more lost media is found next year too

[@johnnwith2ns464]

owl house and bluey should be an instant d tier

[@Ascension721]

i mean, if they were average kids shows, sure

[@livelollobotomy]

sometimes my favorite thing about lost media, is the usernames of the people that find them 😂😂

[@78s_TheArtists_AndTheHistory]

Kenya Dance, Swahilli Dance, HLWIT, Fond My Mind, But The Blues, SO MANY LOST SONGS WERE FOUND!

[@NPGLAMB]

So weird that mc world was lost because I used to play it a lot

[@rae4772]

On the Scooby Doo one that beep is part of the original media. The slides were supposed to be advanced at the beep to keep the images moving in time with the audio.

[@sophiehanssel2017]

Blue Prints, The Super Why pilot and JBVO Dragon Ball Z getting found were some of the best moments of 2023.

[@elliesloan7084]

johnathan ross releasing the arcade cabinet for preservation is WILD to me???? like THE johnathan ross owned that?? what 😭 i think i missed something

[@AppNasty]

Lost media suggestion: Back in the early iPhone days a game called UltraViolet Dawn released. Amazing game. Never got updated. You can find 1.0 of the iPad version and the demo for iPhone, but not the 1.0 or 1.1 iPhone version. Even pirate sites don’t have it anymore. I’ve tried for years to contact the devs but they seem to have disappeared or changed. The game is amazing. Fly a ship around, battle and gather resources, sell them for profit. Similar to Dope Wars/Drug Wars. Simple yet fun.

[@EnoYaka]

An old anime got found this year I though, I forget the name volgo 13 or something like that.

[@fabbroisproakasynthcommand4446]

I hope you had a Happy New Year! I know I saw Lopez on Dora the Explorer back in the mid 2000s.

[@kalebaelfire647]

atl dropped lets goo

[@adrianibarra8758]

I want the Rimini Riddle in its ENTIRETY before I die.

[@chayden153]

I still cannot believe that the Jenny Jones episode has been found.

[@Kryptonn682]

The 2024 found media tier list is gonna be WILD

[@Kal_g]

Aw, yeah! Been waiting on this one!!!

[@nowheredude4204]

Que será será commercial was recently found I think it would be on A tier

[@Drewzer154]

There was an Australian album of various artists doing Stairway To Heaven covers called "The Money Or The Gun". In the liner notes it claims that Prince and "Weird" Al each individually covered the song so well that it made the original sound passe. If this is true someone needs to find these versions.

[@zexalsrevenge511]

Being mid is actually a better fate than death. I’d take anything mid any day over something terrible or cringe.

[@obeseperson]

mid is unmemorable. why watch something so unmemorable and boring

[@poni_poki]

Yay for Spartakus and the Sun beneath the Sea!! If it weren’t for the release of the English dub last year I probably never would have been able to watch it and become a huge fan! Despite the C-tier rating in this video, I recommend giving it a try if you like weird 80s sci-fi cartoons and don’t mind awkward dubbing, lol

[@weakw1ll]

7:48 wow this is a proper list

[@aprils1888]

"How Long" mentioned, so I'm happy

[@user-ul5bn7bw3h]

Wow, I hardly knew Lep’s World Run was lost, god I remember playing that game on one of my old Kindle or something

[@polygonvvitch]

Pilot Hunter isn't real, he can't hurt me.

[@scoopishere7881]

Heads up that during the Rock Odyssey segment, there are flashing lights.

[@ozark5247]

What were the 3 identified songs in S tier called?

[@kylebroflovski2917]

Paula Toledo - How Long (How Long Will It Take) Station K - Feels like a Wish (Fond my Mind) David SonJC - Katonda Alinawe (FilthyFrank Kenya Song)

[@mattwolf7698]

I knew them but I found it so odd that he didn't list them

[@ozark5247]

@@kylebroflovski2917 thx!

[@ozark5247]

@@mattwolf7698 yea it’s like he listed every other one in the list except those lol