/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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1980-1989 1990-1999
2000-2009 2010-present

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4

Kidz’n Power - Internet Safety Tape (2003)

0 Comments
2024/05/14
22:18 UTC

34

Panasonic portable VHS TV commercial (1979)

3 Comments
2024/05/14
21:26 UTC

9

Thrills - "Hey (Not Another Face in the Crowd)" LIVE (1979)

0 Comments
2024/05/14
21:05 UTC

28

"Belfast, Maine" (1999) - Documentary film by Frederick Wiseman. [4:07:13]

1 Comment
2024/05/14
17:16 UTC

5

paul super apple - apple love (1980)’s [outsider music]

1 Comment
2024/05/14
03:57 UTC

20

Friday Night Saturday Morning (1979) Featuring sketches by the year's Cambridge Footlights team, including TV debutants Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and an interview with Peter Cook

0 Comments
2024/05/13
23:15 UTC

46

Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967) [480p]

12 Comments
2024/05/13
17:43 UTC

34

Firesign Theatre perform Winnie-the-Pooh (1970)

4 Comments
2024/05/13
00:08 UTC

40

A camcorder recording of The Aquabats! pilot made for Buena Vista Television(1998)

0 Comments
2024/05/12
23:28 UTC

7

Christian Brando: Filming in Nardo Italy (1987)

0 Comments
2024/05/12
20:42 UTC

32

Training Video - 289H-M Loop Surveillance System Install Technician (1996)

1 Comment
2024/05/12
00:33 UTC

25

The Peens- Thrill Me (1980) A weird forgotten punk/new wave track

The Peens! Lenny Bove was on vocals, Kevin Bort on Guitar, Jan Linendoll on drums. Incredibly short lived band with this EP being their only release.

0 Comments
2024/05/11
21:16 UTC

279

(1994) OK Soda Commercial The Coca Cola company’s failed Attempt to market a product to the post-modern/alternative crowd

46 Comments
2024/05/10
18:56 UTC

375

In (2001), Pepsi did a tie-in with Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes in Japan. Somehow, they managed to get Paul Giamatti do an ad as his character in the film.

50 Comments
2024/05/10
14:16 UTC

10

Ford Mondeo X-Files Advert/Commercial (1997) UK

4 Comments
2024/05/10
12:09 UTC

28

(1989) Deeply strange promo film for the Nissan Pao

Went for a bike ride the other day, saw this cool tiny car and looked it up. Was not expecting this.

A marketing film made by Nissan for the Pike Factory, Japan for the promotion of their new car, the Pao. it deploys every cinematic device known to man in 1989 - animation, music, digital overlays, live action.

Answers every question you could possibly have about the Nissan Pao!

7 Comments
2024/05/09
18:28 UTC

14

The Smith Trio - The Place Prepared For Me [USA, Country Gospel] (1972) Raw, punky and magical country gospel with truly wonderful vocal Interplay and killer playing. I'm not a religious man but this music really rouses something deep in my soul. Glorious!

0 Comments
2024/05/08
23:48 UTC

11

City Streets- Last Four Digits (1980) Awesome punk song with only 146 views

0 Comments
2024/05/08
22:19 UTC

50

East of the Tar Pits (2008) Starring Holly Woodlawn.

1 Comment
2024/05/08
20:44 UTC

52

KLF's Madrugada Eterna & Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds (1994) MTV video requests // "It seems to be out the moment.. ..that's disappeared with the drugs supply"

8 Comments
2024/05/07
23:23 UTC

19

(1998) Cereal City USA commercial

2 Comments
2024/05/07
04:48 UTC

187

Ronald Dahl talks about his writing process and shows off his writing shed and garden two years before his death (1988)

11 Comments
2024/05/06
23:26 UTC

74

Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Charo, Adrienne Barbeau, Marty Allen and a guy in a large rabbit suit, raising money for the Easter Seals Telethon (1972)

5 Comments
2024/05/06
03:41 UTC

50

International Electronic Music Association collaboration tape (1981)

Here is the description from the bandcamp page:

*”The International Electronic Music Association was formed in 1979 by James E. Finch in Salamanca, New York. Jim had a vision, about electronic music, about how synthesizer users all around the world could somehow communicate with one another, and share their ideas and possibly review recordings and even interview musicians who wanted to take their art to a public level. That vision began with a newsletter, which later turned into a zine called SYNE.

Soon after this newsletter began to catch on, with members of amateur and professional musicians signing up, Jim decided he wanted to be able to share the sounds these people were producing, himself included, but there was no internet then, just the postal service. So he gathered some music from several music enthusiasts, myself included, and put together a tape that would be distributed at a fair market price to anyone who wanted to sample these new electronic sounds. It was advertised in SYNE, and the tape was met with great enthusiasm among all the members if the I.E.M.A.!

As Jim Finch had so many responsibilities and wanted to expand the newsletter, at an early meeting of some of the more local members, it was decided that someone else needed to take control of this "Group Tape" project. It was decided, because of the fine quality of my own cassette tapes I had distributed as Anvil Creations, that I would become the new Music Director. The first thing I did was to draw up a cover for this first effort, and some really fine names appeared on this release, including Jonn Serrie, whose name we misspelled, and Leon Lowman, whose records are now available through Vinyl-on-Demand.

This was the beginning of a short series of compilation releases that was met with widespread approval. I hope that you enjoy these recordings, as they have remained dormant for the past 35 years, and certainly deserve the admirable attention that Hal has given to them in this digital format.

Ken Moore Anvil Creations Director”*

3 Comments
2024/05/06
00:24 UTC

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Roland Rat takes on Austrian racing driver Roland Ratzenberger in The Race of the Century (1985)

3 Comments
2024/05/05
16:21 UTC

28

Pearl Harbor and the Explosions - Drivin' (1980)

1 Comment
2024/05/05
16:08 UTC

9

Cesar (1936) [1080p]

0 Comments
2024/05/05
15:51 UTC

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