Lost Media We Will Never Find (Probably)

There are a handful of topics that have been around for years, with little updates and no leads to follow. Here are a few topics I'm sad to recollect for the fact that they'll probably never show up.

[jimskywalker]

The Care Bears Movie (1985) Original Print Reconstruction is on the Internet Archive. It's completely restored in 1080p HD. It includes The Samuel Goldwyn Company opening logo with Care-A-Lot fanfare, the blue background variant end credits, and the Distributed By The Samuel Goldwyn Company closing logo.

[Random_user]

As a titanic fan, there is a piece of lost media that will probably never be found.

In May 1912, just a month after the Titanic sank, a movie was made called “saved from the titanic” Starring an actual survivor named Dorothy Gibson. She even wore the clothes she wore during the actual sinking. And it actually got good ratings. But unfortunately in 1914, the last copy of the movie was destroyed in a fire and with that, it was now lost. I’m pretty sure the only way to find it is if someone somehow has a preserved copy of the movie. All we got of the movie is like 2 pictures of it, and most likely all the people that watched it has died.

[theboredprogrammer]

I'm a Filipino and my mom saw Batmam vs Dracula in 1967. She was about 12 back then and she has hazy memories about it and she remembered it was goofy. There's a huge goldmine of lost media in the Philippines which I find a lot of them intriguing like that lost flower shop commercial that scared the shit out of me as a kid in the 90s. There's also a lost religious interstitial about a 1PM prayer thing. Also scary.

Just wanna add, my mom, aunts and uncles, and my grandparents were avid movie nerds (local or foreign) in the past, they loved going to movie premiers and it was like a Filipino middle class thing back then. Like in the 1950s-1980s. Sadly, cost of living is insane here im the Philippines as a Filipino and going to the movies are more of a not so frequent thing. For me, at least and I usually wait it out before it gets released in Netflix or Amazon Prime.

[pizzalordmarv]

Back in 1978, the British rock band The Police were featured in a Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum commercial. This was before the band got popular, so they had done this because they needed money. In the commercial they played a punk band (what The Police were initially formed to be) and had bleached their hair blond for the role—a look they’d keep for the rest of their time as a band. Unfortunately, the commercial was shelved and had never aired. There is no footage of it anywhere that is known. The Police’s guitarist, Andy Summers, had attempted to find it himself back in 2012 out of curiosity of where it went—I’d think he had no luck, since the commercial hasn’t surfaced since. I’ve looked at the Lost Media Forums once before to see if this topic had ever been mentioned, but I had found nothing. Alike the things in this video, this commercial is likely completely lost.
I thought I’d put this here in case anyone was interested. The Police is my favourite band, it’d be so cool to see this commercial become found one day.

Edit: I had no idea I had written this much, so I apologize for that! If you got this far, thanks for reading. And on another note, thanks to those who liked my comment! This is probably the most likes I’ve ever gotten on one :)

[PengutheFoxVR]

Most of the 1920s movies are lost media and will probably never be found

[Peepimus]

I know we’ll all be celebrating once “Batman Fights Dracula” gets miraculously found.!.!

[wexfordbuccos_]

The Wikipedia list of Lost Films makes me cry. So many pieces of history, gone forever. They live on in name, but think of the other films that never have been recognized and their names as well as the film itself have also been lost to time.

[maguma]

I wanna watch the Hannah Montana anime just for the absurdity lol

[burnum]

It's interesting seeing as DC decided to MAKE an animated Batman vs Dracula movie in 2005 with The Batman.

[gabrieldjatienza]

In 1973 there was a Filipino movie spoof Zoom Zoom Superman that starred comedian Ariel Ureta....DC comics was not pleased with the studio that made the spoof without their approval and sued the studio for trademark infringement... this movie also vanished from existence!

[AugustQ-pw]

Whether the O'Hare plush is a custom or not, it would be awesome to find visual evidence of it, to put the mystery to rest if nothing else. I'd love to see it someday. I hope you find it someday.

[Tonynater]

Another piece of most likely forever missing media is Doctor Who's first Christmas special, "The Feast of Steven" back in the 60s. That episode got junked and there were no copies sold over seas due to the unlikelyhood of stations playing the episode around Christmas, making it likely the only episode of Doctor Who that will never be found!

[liquidx]

8:04 There I am, Gary, look!
In all seriousness, the search for Phantom Blood has been a huge part of my life for the past 5 years, and I'm grateful that I let my curiosity get the best of me and joined up with RedMango/Mangomation all that time ago.
The search may be a bit slow as of writing this, but I'm eager to see where this wild rabbit hole will lead us next!

[Cat-]

LSSQ, I love you man, but you gotta stop calling Twitter X

[bridroche]

Me going to bed tonight knowing I'll never be able to watch the cinema perfection that is batman fights dracula😪😪

[CaptainSouthbird]

Just a general reminder to everyone, if you love a YouTube video, download it. If you will watch something you love and can record, record it. If you don't have a recording setup, consider it. You never know when something you love will be for a limited time only. I've downloaded large amounts of YouTube channel catalogs specifically because I trust nothing.

[lpfan]

Honestly, the mess of the Jojo movie just vanishing into thin air makes me a lot more appreciative of how fans have saved the Yu-gi-oh Toei anime and the related movie through, ahem..."alternative uploads". Most of it are low quality or even damaged copies, but at least the entire thing is watchable with full audio.

[rcrazycanucks]

Boards of Canada's early albums are also a big piece of lost media that's extremely unlikely to ever get found legitimately.

[Hack_Man_VII]

Topic request; Ralph Bakshi's original version of Hey Good Lookin'. The version we have is fully animated, but the original version was a live action animation hybrid. This was accomplished before Roger Rabbit, and it was completed for a producers screening. The original version was never released because the people above Bakshi didn't have enough confidence in the hybrid style, so he animated everything to try and save it.

[Peepimus]

I was ending my Twitch stream which ended EXACTLY as this video uploaded! What timing!