/r/ObscureMedia
A relaxed place to share and discuss lesser known media: silent films, vintage exploitation flicks, finely aged TV, PSAs and other oddities.
A relaxed place to share and discuss lesser known media: silent films, vintage exploitation flicks, finely aged TV, PSAs and other oddities.
This is a content based sub: we want the goods and nothing else will suffice. Links to blogs or review/digest videos/pages are not welcome.
No posts consisting of a single image.
Short clips/edits from content are not allowed: we want full and complete content. If you wish to highlight a portion of content in a post please use the YouTube timestamps option while still linking to the full content. An example can be found here.
Include the release year in the post title: if not known, an educated guess of the decade will suffice.
Acceptable year labels:
(1985) or (1980)s
The year must only contain 4 digits inside parentheses () using any other format or not including a (year) will result in deletion.
Please search before posting: nobody enjoys obvious re-posts.
No promotion/spam allowed: this isn't the place to promote your music video or short film.
No politics or the like, starting arguments or making political comments will result in an instant ban. This is not the place, move on
Two postings per user in a 24hr period
No recently created content: in order to discourage promotion, most content created within the past ~5 years will be removed. This includes upscaled and remastered versions of vintage material. Blatant Spamming of new content will result in a ban.
No "channel spam'': repeatedly linking to a Youtube/etc. channel is not allowed. Exceptions may be made for users who have uploaded multiple appropriate items to a non-monetized channel. Contact the mods if this applies to you.
Be nice!: if you post a rudely condescending/attacking/generally dick-ish comment you will be banned with no prior warning.
No arguing about what is obscure enough to be posted: this should be left to the domain of the upvote/downvote and the moderators.
No memes, image macros, or reaction gifs.
Any comment containing a "spoiler" must be formatted:
[This is a spoiler sentence.](/spoiler)
The result is:
This is a spoiler sentence.
1900-1909 | 1910-1919 |
1920-1929 | 1930-1939 |
1940-1949 | 1950-1959 |
1960-1969 | 1970-1979 |
1980-1989 | 1990-1999 |
2000-2009 | 2010-present |
/r/ObscureMedia
Includes some bumpers and adverts. This was the year their 12th studio album “Nonsuch” was released.
I very much enjoyed this Canadian animation. Funny and bizarre in equal measures.
I randomly found this animation while mindlessly searching youtube, it looks very obscure to me. To be honest it gives me a an Lost Media vibes
David Bowie performs as Joseph Merrick in in the stage production of The Elephant Man on Broadway at the Booth Theatre in NYC which began on September 23, 1980 and ran for three sold out months. The way he contorts his body and strains his voice is amazing. Sold-out performances ran six nights a week, with two additional matinees on Wednesday and Sunday. Reportedly Mark David Chapman, who assassinated John Lennon had been to see The Elephant Man two nights before the committing the murder, and had photographed Bowie afterwards at the stage door. He bragged to his girlfriend that he could have killed either Lennon or Bowie. When police searched Chapman's hotel room, they found a program from The Elephant Man with Bowie's named circled in black ink, along with the Polaroid photo “I was second on his list,” Bowie said in 2010. “Chapman had a front-row ticket to The Elephant Man the next night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front-row for that show too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row. I can't tell you how difficult it was to go on. I almost didn't make it through the performance.”
Here’s a shorter with better quality/sound of the shown footage: https://youtu.be/vaxyFZg0Xes?si=xQhsWwGv90-mhI6n