/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.

One-click Filter By Decade

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1920-1929 1930-1939
1940-1949 1950-1959
1960-1969 1970-1979
1980-1989 1990-1999
2000-2009 2010-present

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3

Jimi Hendrix - Rare & Uncut (1960)s

1 Comment
2025/01/31
17:54 UTC

44

Never Say Pink Furry Die (1992) - Stop-motion short by Aardman, about a bride who wakes up after a hangover and her struggles to make it to the church on time.

6 Comments
2025/01/31
14:07 UTC

11

(1978)The Science Fiction Film Awards

0 Comments
2025/01/31
02:05 UTC

57

Pat Boone - Enter Sandman (1997). Actual ambitious reworking.

20 Comments
2025/01/30
23:15 UTC

20

Expression - The Letter (1970)(roughly): A truly ambitious and explosive reworking of the Box Tops classic by this talented and tight Nevada lounge band. Of special note is the fact that multi-instrumentalist Frank Cole hooked his Wah Wah pedal up to his Saxophone for this wild performance.

0 Comments
2025/01/30
22:56 UTC

33

Coty Wild Musk (1983)

6 Comments
2025/01/30
21:33 UTC

38

Tiger (1997) - Obscure low budget Dana Plato film about a talking dog

7 Comments
2025/01/30
18:38 UTC

74

The Telebugs (1986) - A cartoon series about the adventures of three robots with TVs for heads.

6 Comments
2025/01/30
18:35 UTC

1

A Pirate Anthology Treasure (1993)

1 Comment
2025/01/30
16:41 UTC

13

Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (1939) - the second winner of the Caldecott Medal, and one of the first American books to feature an Asian protagonist.

2 Comments
2025/01/30
12:49 UTC

140

Corn Makes a World of Difference (1992). 2 students learn all about corn and the good things brought to us by corn!

16 Comments
2025/01/30
07:10 UTC

40

Constructing Reality: A Film on Film (1973)

0 Comments
2025/01/29
21:07 UTC

26

Spring - 'Where It's At' Canadian music show (1969)

2 Comments
2025/01/29
17:20 UTC

0

Nic and Tori June 94 Through July 94 - Bicycles and Fireflies (1994)

5 Comments
2025/01/29
14:16 UTC

23

DreadMill - No Big Deal (1989)

1 Comment
2025/01/29
04:17 UTC

9

Menayeri - Revolucion en el alma (2000)s on TuTv's show 'Cultura Viva' in Puerto Rico

0 Comments
2025/01/29
03:47 UTC

32

Lester Maddox and the Dishwasher, Bobby Lee Sears, (1977)

3 Comments
2025/01/28
20:58 UTC

19

Bee Movie (2007) Unreleased Advertisement Workprints

3 Comments
2025/01/28
19:40 UTC

23

The Trouble With Women (1959)

0 Comments
2025/01/28
04:54 UTC

162

ReBoot (1994) - The ReBoot Trias Effect clips in full (one of the clips was considered lost media up until recently). I sent my VHS of this to the people transferring the series when they couldn’t locate the clips on the D1 master tapes. The clean up they did was amazing.

This should make up for my Yes, Dear video yesterday which wasn’t well liked lol. The biggest surprise to me with that transfer was how it turns out nothing was edited out when the show was syndicated.

I have plenty more (not quite “lost” but hard to find / nearly impossible to watch) TV episodes, which I plan to upload every Sunday for a while. I’ll post the links here.

2 Comments
2025/01/28
00:20 UTC

38

Commercials for Charlie's Angels line of dolls from Hasbro(1977)

1 Comment
2025/01/27
20:33 UTC

73

The Treacle People (1996) - The adventures of a group of small people who mine treacle for a living.

3 Comments
2025/01/27
16:44 UTC

20

Quézac - La Légende (1997) - Famous for the girl's final phrase who became a reference in French culture.

3 Comments
2025/01/27
12:50 UTC

70

Unfortunately I missed out on the beer shampoo trend (1978)

18 Comments
2025/01/27
01:29 UTC

10

Deadfall - If You Want What I Want EP (1999)

0 Comments
2025/01/27
00:20 UTC

6

Twinny - Who Put The Magic In Your Fingers (1980)

0 Comments
2025/01/26
22:22 UTC

30

"DANCE"- WIS-TV Ch.10 Columbia SC.November 18,(1978).This was a locally produced weekly dance program that was similar to "Soul Train" where people danced to disco hits.The special guest for this episode were the Commodores featuring Lionel Richie.The show was cancelled in 1979.

1 Comment
2025/01/26
21:23 UTC

12

Tanz auf dem Vulkan (Dance on the Vulcano) (1938)

0 Comments
2025/01/26
19:55 UTC

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