/r/ObscureMedia

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A relaxed place to share and discuss lesser known media: silent films, vintage exploitation flicks, finely aged TV, PSAs and other oddities.

Welcome to r/ObscureMedia :)

A relaxed place to share and discuss lesser known media: silent films, vintage exploitation flicks, finely aged TV, PSAs and other oddities.

Posting Guidelines

  • 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.

Promotion/Spam


  • 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.

Commenting Guidelines

  • 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.


  • A more complete overview can be found here.

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2000-2009 2010-present

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3

Special Delivery (1978) Oscar winner - Best Animated Short Film

0 Comments
2024/11/21
05:53 UTC

11

Brenda Fassie - Orphan (1989)

0 Comments
2024/11/21
01:47 UTC

5

PINK FLOYD - Backstage and Interviews at POMPEII (1973)

0 Comments
2024/11/20
19:38 UTC

5

Unknown Sermon (1990)s

0 Comments
2024/11/20
15:49 UTC

26

(1984) Cheesy music video or commercial?

4 Comments
2024/11/20
14:37 UTC

30

Madonna - Justify My Love - Only Lenny Kravitz Vocals Recording (1990) YT busted the old link so here's the new one. Kinda wild Kravitz never did any trip hop records - dude could've been the pop evil twin of Tricky easy.

10 Comments
2024/11/19
16:02 UTC

18

The Masters of Joujouka - Oh Brian Jones, Jahjouka Very Stoned (1969)

0 Comments
2024/11/19
08:57 UTC

42

Censorship and Its Absurdities (1915) 6:03

0 Comments
2024/11/19
00:41 UTC

6

Ethylene - Flicker (2007)

Found this obscure rock band called Ethylene while I was scrolling through Spotify, they only had 11 monthly listeners. They have an only one EP on their page and that's it. I listen to every song on there and all of them are pretty amazing!

Sadly, there’s really no information of this band anywhere on the internet. No live performances, interviews, photos, nothing.

More people should listen to this!!!

0 Comments
2024/11/18
23:45 UTC

8

Steriogram-Roadtrip (2004) They had some success back in the day with “Walkie Talkie Man” but I think “Roadtrip” is a slightly better song

1 Comment
2024/11/18
03:28 UTC

31

Alakazam the Great (1961). Early Toei animated film adaptation of Journey to the West. English dub features the voices of Frankie Avalon, Dodie Stevens, Jonathan Winters, Arnold Stang, and Sterling Holloway.

5 Comments
2024/11/18
03:24 UTC

105

Osamu Tezuka - Jumping (1984)

I found this one recently and it’s amazing. Are there any similar (short) movies?

16 Comments
2024/11/18
03:17 UTC

15

Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets live (1972)

2 Comments
2024/11/18
00:06 UTC

36

Satan Rides the Media (1999) -- Norwegian documentary (w/ English subtitles) about the controversy surrounding black metal musician Varg Vikernes, who was tied to a series of church arsons and the murder of Mayhem member Oystein "Enonymous" Aarseth [00:50:47]

5 Comments
2024/11/17
01:17 UTC

60

An (1988) Experimental HBO Production Using Mike Tyson's Boxing Matches Recorded in Analog HDTV

3 Comments
2024/11/16
21:35 UTC

41

A&E Breakfast With The Arts With Commercials (1993)

6 Comments
2024/11/15
21:25 UTC

26

Mystic Edge - You Know I Need You (1992)

Public Access TV performance

2 Comments
2024/11/15
21:04 UTC

19

The Weather - Olivia (1970): Lovely and enigmatic psyche-folk song of lost love and regret. I'm always a sucker for a poetic spoken word intro too!

0 Comments
2024/11/15
20:47 UTC

20

Chronic Future-Shell Shocked (2004) A band with an unique mix of Rap Metal,Pop Punk and Art Rock

11 Comments
2024/11/15
03:39 UTC

9

The March Hares - EP1 (2004)

0 Comments
2024/11/15
02:13 UTC

10

Descriptiv Musik – Descriptiv Musik (1982) Ambient, Experimental / France

0 Comments
2024/11/14
19:16 UTC

86

Hostess commercial promoting a solid gold Twinkie giveaway(1981)

11 Comments
2024/11/14
18:07 UTC

58

Mean Genes Burgers commercial (1998) Former WWF/E and WCW interviewer "Mean Gene" Okerlund lent his name to a fast food chain that went out of business around 2007

9 Comments
2024/11/13
21:03 UTC

9

Jackon Wedding Ceremony (2000)s

1 Comment
2024/11/13
15:35 UTC

61

Sony’s Japanese Minidisc (MD) campaign starring Jamiroquai. (1996)

6 Comments
2024/11/12
20:31 UTC

142

How To Run A Haunted House (1994) Boneyard Films-- An instructional videotape for those who want to create Halloween attractions and haunted houses.

3 Comments
2024/11/12
17:09 UTC

51

Adventures of Monty the Moose (1995). An educational video series that was a nostalgic classic for Alaskan kids such as myself, but is virtually unknown outside of Alaska.

1 Comment
2024/11/12
07:36 UTC

115

Dot Comedy (2000) previously lost Sklar Brothers show, the 1 and only aired episode in full.

13 Comments
2024/11/11
02:10 UTC

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