What are your Lost Media holy grails?

[Garrett Gilchrist]

I assume I used Spleeter for vocal separation there. I'd use MVSep now probably.

The Meek/Proposal scenes are restored by me, sourced from the endingless workprint with a little from John Smith. (The John Smith stuff has never been posted with interlacing, so was not the ideal source otherwise.)

It's hard to recall now, but the "Nice Boys" clip was not masked/dissolved/edited the way I would do it now as final.
At the time I was switching from editing on FCP7 on Mac to Adobe Premiere on PC, and I wasn't ready to do so yet.

The quality of what you can get out of EBSynth really depends on what you do in your other video and photo editing programs before and afterward, to match sources.

The most complex project I've done with EBSynth is this -- and it was incredibly complex.
https://archive.org/details/star-wars-d ... ources.mp4

[Arnaud]

Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert (1969 TV special)

I have no interest in the later series but this one looks intriguing and a different beast. The Paley center owns a copy but it'll probably never be largely available for obvious reasons that I of course can understand, but it's a shame for the team and the importance of that short in animation history as a whole.

[Garrett Gilchrist]

Putting aside the Bill Cosby of it, it is a very interesting short that should be available in a more public way.

[Garrett Gilchrist]

Robert Gonzo Wicker writes:
So I rarely post here, but I am a big fan of lost media. I have 2 things I've been hunting for a few years now.
1. My aunt was on an episode of Oprah between 1988 and 1991. If I remember correctly, the episode was titled "My inlaw is trying to kill me". We recorded it on vhs and lost that tape 3 decades ago.
2. A creepy pasta story about a mechanical TV. 2 kids live with their aunt who has a mechanical TV that only gets 1 show called Mr Venus. Eventually, the tv opens up and Mr Venus flies away. One sibling goes insane and the other kills themselves.

[COAGULOPATH]

There's a lot of media that isn't "lost" exactly, but only exists in deplorably mangled form.

For one, an extremely obscure and offensive Australian animated film called "Go to Hell!!" Created in 1995-1997 by Ray Nowland, it remains one of the only feature-length animated films to be completed by a single man.

I wrote about the content of the film here. It's "Ralph Bakshi does the Bible"—a half-sarcastic, half-sincere reverie on religion, faith, and humanity. It's flawed but quite interesting. Right now, all that exists of it is a 240p Youtube video, heavily damaged by repeated encoding. Someone else tried upscaling it with early-gen Topaz or something, with craptastic results.

It would be nice to have a proper version of this film. The company that produced it—Energee—was liquidated decades ago. Who knows what happened to their masters. Ray Nowland probably has a copy, but there's no trace of him online. I can't even verify that he's still alive.

Also, if you like anime, the list of lost media is about to substantially increase.

[Garrett Gilchrist]

As noted ... Come end of Oct, Tokyo Lab, one of the largest holders of film material in Japan, will be discarding all film left unclaimed by rights holders. However, the Warner Bros shows were apparently claimed by Warners "long ago."


https://twitter.com/Famihamu64/status/1 ... 1940100202

[Garrett Gilchrist]

ToughPigs' current want list for Muppet/Miss Piggy clips. See Muppet Wiki for more specific details.

Dinah! Dinah Shore May 16, 1977 (A partial clip is circulating and was restored by me)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson w/Jim Henson (5/24/74) Miss Piggy clip only (this is omitted from current repeats)

NBC Today Show -- August 8 1977/ September 8 1977/ April 16 1996/ October 17 1997/ November 9 1998

Parkinson (November 18, 1978) — BBC Archive has posted most of this on Facebook/Twitter

The Mike Douglas Show (September 11, 1979)

The Don Lane Show (October 26, 1981)

Good Morning America (December 24, 1982 / February 13, 1987 / February 13, 1988)

Gala of Stars PBS (March 30, 1983)

Entertainment Tonight (May 29, 1984)

Wogan (December 6, 1985 / October 30, 1987)

Life: 50 Years (November 15, 1986)

The Disney Christmas Special (ITV December 25, 1989)

Terry Wogan's Friday Night (December 18, 1992)

Bruce's Guest Night (Bruce Forsyth, May 17, 1993)

Rosie O'Donnell Show (June 14, 1996)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (June 21, 1996 / December 11, 1998)

The View (November 6, 1998 / July 1999)

Live with Regis and Kelly (November 26, 2002 / November 29, 2002)

Other Muppet wants:
The unaired pilot version of the Juliet Prowse episode of The Muppet Show (Paley)

Kagayake! Gorō Mapetto Geba Geba 90-pun! (1976) 輝け!五郎・マペット ゲバゲバ90分!

Jim Henson's 1965 Cinderella pilot, which was found in 2013 and viewable at the Paley Center.

original Zoot endings for: Muppet Show with Kaye Ballard, Loretta Lynn, Harry Belafonte, Juliet Prowse, Dudley Moore, Mac Davis, Roger Miller.

Also Muppet Show series 4/5 endings, generally / generically (Chris Langham episode also, as that's been pulled from Disney+ for obvious reasons, and circulates in VHS quality)

It's also not uncommon for Muppet Show episodes to have episode promos at the end of the master tapes.