/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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17

From Noon Till Three (1976) is the best film Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland starred together. The most charming, saddest, funniest thing I've ever seen!

1 Comment
2024/04/27
16:47 UTC

19

(2001) Awanti - Polish film about graffiti subculture?

I can not find anything about this on internet, the studio or people involved, the orgin or context is completley unknown to me. It is very trippy tho.

1 Comment
2024/04/26
20:24 UTC

29

New York Lottery Commercial Featuring Alex Trebek (1988)

0 Comments
2024/04/26
14:05 UTC

35

Excerpt from NBC's Today Show on the simple solution to Rubik's Cube (1981)

2 Comments
2024/04/26
02:18 UTC

13

The Romance of the Carrousel (1978) Spokane, WA Looff Carousel Music

1 Comment
2024/04/26
00:23 UTC

24

MTV Buzz (1990) Surreal Clip and Music Show From Director Mark Pellington

0 Comments
2024/04/25
20:17 UTC

20

Pokemon Mini's only cancelled game Snorlax's lunchtime (2001)

2 Comments
2024/04/25
16:01 UTC

15

Glamour Zombie - a fan made Lady Gaga song made entirely out of vocal samples from other songs (2010)

0 Comments
2024/04/25
07:14 UTC

25

Dot - (1982) a short film by Dan Carbone

2 Comments
2024/04/25
06:32 UTC

8

Remembering Charles Bronson & Jill Ireland (1949) to 2001

0 Comments
2024/04/25
06:29 UTC

19

lame duck radio station DJ invites listeners on air and plays sound FX over music Kansas City KCCZ ZZ99 (1986)

2 Comments
2024/04/25
06:20 UTC

36

Cancelled star wars rts game. Possibly the only footage on the internet of the internal trailer (2012)

2 Comments
2024/04/24
22:44 UTC

28

PizzaGuy - New Orleans (1995)

1 Comment
2024/04/24
07:37 UTC

33

Martian Gothic: Unification (2000) A bizarre Resident Evil clone of sorts developed by Creative Reality. The story and dialogue was written by sci-fi author Stephen Marley, and revolves around three agents named Karne, Kenzo, and Matlock who are sent to investigate a Mars base that went quiet.

2 Comments
2024/04/24
02:14 UTC

9

Fleming Store Brand Men (1980)s

0 Comments
2024/04/24
00:04 UTC

9

E J Simpson - When The Grass Grows Over Me (1980)(roughly) Anyone with a passing interest in country music knows that it can get pretty dark. This song, originally performed by George Jones, is a perfect example of that. The sweetness of the delivery by Ms. Simpson only emphasizes the dark theme.

2 Comments
2024/04/23
18:59 UTC

20

P.K. Dwyer and Donna Beck - Dandy Annie (1976) R.I.P. P.K Dwyer. A legendary Seattle street musician who put out this incredible single in the mid 70's.

3 Comments
2024/04/23
17:30 UTC

132

People eating at the New York World's Fair (1939)

26 Comments
2024/04/23
17:13 UTC

19

Is There Life Out There? (1994) - TV movie starring Reba McEntire, based on her 1992 song of the same name. Reba plays a middle-aged mom who decides to go back to school and get her degree.

2 Comments
2024/04/23
16:07 UTC

37

An old South Park short (2000)? I would like to know more about it if anyone knows

6 Comments
2024/04/22
14:33 UTC

24

Selfridge's - Just Another Day (1983)

A quirky documentary covering a day in the life of Selfridge's, a high end department store in London, from the 1980s.

I particularly enjoyed the hat salesman who doesn't like hats!

3 Comments
2024/04/22
11:44 UTC

63

Does anyone know where I might be able to find a full broadcast or a commercial break video with this terrifying PSA in it? (1987)

16 Comments
2024/04/21
23:01 UTC

27

Pallina (1967)

0 Comments
2024/04/21
20:01 UTC

33

British blues singer Duffy Power singing a cover of The Beatles "I Saw Her Standing There" backed by The Graham Bond Organization, a band that featured drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce of Cream fame (1963)

1 Comment
2024/04/21
18:38 UTC

41

Saturday Night Special on FOX(1996)

Who remembers this late night show ?

4 Comments
2024/04/20
12:00 UTC

77

(1987) An internal sales promo tape from the Coca-Cola company promoting their crossover marketing campaign with Bill Cosby and his then-recent movie, Leonard Part 6. The film is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made and bombed hard in the box office.

21 Comments
2024/04/20
03:46 UTC

7

The 7th Sound - Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring (1976) ; NYC-based amateur vocal jazz group taking on an acapella class - as recorded by The Beach Boys, Four Freshmen, etc.

0 Comments
2024/04/20
00:47 UTC

78

Green Requiem (1988) - What if Stephen King's Firestarter starred Swamp Thing? What if Swamp Thing was a magical girl? A forgotten film adaptation of a popular 80's sci-fi fantasy novel in Japan, now with English subtitles!

8 Comments
2024/04/19
17:12 UTC

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