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

Twitter: @blameitonjorge

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:
Falling Forever
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Lost Media Found in the Strangest Ways | blameitonjorge

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Twitter: @blameitonjorge

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[ephraim_]

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

[sunolili]

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

[inserthahafunniusername]

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

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

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

[aitsu_nojayjay]

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

[BlueOysterStan]

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

[DarcyWalker]

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

[colette]

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.

[xanderguyer]

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.

[surprisedchar]

“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.

[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 YouTube

[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.

[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.

[TheRealAmericanMan]

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

[monkey]

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

[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."

[Zulf]

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

[lordaustinking]

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

[superg]

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